Google promises new AI algorithm will excel ChatGPT's 'capabilities'

Google is going to great lengths to come out on top of the AI game.

The CEO of Google’s artificial intelligence subsidiary DeepMind dished out the search engine’s plans to roll out a new machine learning system that could outsmart OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

In a report published by Wired, Demis Hassabis revealed they are currently developing “Gemini AI,” a large language model (LLM) that will not only help users with an answer to their queries but also be equipped with “new capabilities like planning or problem-solving.”

“At a high level, you can think of Gemini as combining some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the amazing language capabilities of the large models,” he said, referencing an early AI system developed by DeepMind in 2016.

Although Hassabis noted that the system is “still months away from officially launching,” he did promise some pretty interesting “new innovations.”

Google’s latest project was first unveiled in May at the company’s I/O developer conference, alongside a multiplicity of other AI products.

Despite the inefficiencies of Google’s AI chatbot Bard, Hassabis has sheer confidence in his idea and its execution and doesn’t see any reason as to why the “things it’s building with Gemini won’t work.”

The company rushed out Bard earlier this year to compete with ChatGPT, which was launched by OpenAI in November last year. However, it was soon shunned by most developers over former Google employees’ “concerns for society.”

Moreover, Bard still awaits its launch within the European Union after being accused by regulators in Ireland of not submitting the necessary paperwork.