Google’s Bard hasn’t exactly had an impressive debut, and Information is reporting that the company is so interested in changing the fortunes of its AI chatbots that it’s forcing its DeepMind division to help the Google Brain team beat OpenAI with a new initiative called Gemini. InformationThe report also contains the potentially staggering third-party accusation that Google stooped so low as to train Bard using OpenAI’s ChatGPT data, pulled from a website called ShareGPT. A former Google AI researcher reportedly spoke out against the use of that data, according to the post.
But Google is firmly and clearly denying that the data was used: “Bard is not trained on any ShareGPT or ChatGPT data,” says spokesman Chris Pappas. the edge.
According InformationAccording to the report, a Google AI engineer named Jacob Devlin left Google to immediately join rival OpenAI after trying to warn Google not to use that ChatGPT data because it would violate OpenAI’s terms of service and that his responses would be they would look too similar. A source told the publication that Google stopped using that data after its warnings. Maybe he also ruled out that part of the training.