{"id":18120,"date":"2023-04-20T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/google-to-combine-ai\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:45:07","slug":"alphabet-to-combine-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/alphabet-to-combine-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet to combine AI research units Google Brain, DeepMind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc is combining Google Brain and DeepMind, as it doubles down on artificial intelligence research in its race to compete with rival systems like OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>The new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and its setting up will ensure &#8220;bold and responsible development of general AI&#8221;, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet said the teams that are being combined have delivered a number of high-profile projects including the transformer, technology that formed the bedrock of some of OpenAI&#8217;s own work.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the Alphabet staff will work on &#8220;multimodal&#8221; AI, like OpenAI&#8217;s latest model GPT-4, which can respond not only to text prompts but to image inputs as well to generate new content.Google has for decades dominated the search market, with a share of over 80%, but Wall Street fears that the Alphabet unit could fall behind Microsoft Corp in the fast-moving AI race. Technology from OpenAI, funded by Microsoft, powers the rival software maker&#8217;s updated Bing search engine.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet announced the launch of Bard in February to take on ChatGPT as well. It lost $100 billion in value on Feb. 8 after Bard shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet shares were up 2% on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D&#8217;Silva)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/alphabet-to-combine-ai\/file-photo-a-man-walks-past-a-logo-of-alphabet\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTechnologyNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0U0-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0U0-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc is combining Google Brain and DeepMind, as it doubles down on artificial intelligence research in its race to compete with rival systems like OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT chatbot. The new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and its setting up will ensure &#8220;bold and responsible development of general AI&#8221;, Alphabet CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1220],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-18120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-technology","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTechnologyNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0U0-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18120\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}