Artificial intelligence (AI) is already a topic that appears in the media on a daily basis. Its ability to automatically generate all kinds of creations, from texts to images or audio, has half the world astonished (although it has been driving the tools we use in our daily lives for years).
This tremendous rise of AI in recent times has caused such an earthquake that large technology companies are putting all their efforts into being the first to launch solutions based on this technology. After 6 years of "peace", Microsoft and Google are facing each other again and starting a race for the future of the Internet.
The battle between Microsoft and Google over AI has its origins in the plans of the finland number data former, which recently announced plans to incorporate OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot into its Bing search engine. Meanwhile, Google has unveiled Bard, an alternative to the famous ChatGPT, which will be launched in the coming weeks.
The two companies aim to revolutionize search engines, making future results more like “ short, simple AI-generated answers than a collection of links and boxes to click,” The Verge reports.
Both the Bard chatbot and OpenAI's ChatGPT are capable of answering user questions in seconds, and they do so in a more comprehensive way than current search engines. In fact, what these new solutions seek is to make the answers more human .
Google has so far been the leader in the search engine space on the Internet, but if Microsoft executes its next AI-based move well, it could put serious pressure on the company and put the “search engine of search engines” in a bind.
According to The Verge, Microsoft may have an advantage over Google as while Open AI's solution is based on GPT-3.5, a language model published last year, Bing's chat functionality is rumored to be based on GPT-4, though this has not yet been confirmed.
However, Google's chatbot is powered by information compiled on the Internet and can thus offer up-to-date answers, unlike Microsoft's ChatGPT, which only offers content published before 2021.