‘Salad shooter’: Why two Google tech luminaries don’t think AI chatbots are ready for prime time
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:50 am
‘Salad shooter’: Why two Google tech luminaries don’t think AI chatbots are ready for prime time
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Less than a week after Google LLC stumbled when it introduced its experimental artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, two Google luminaries today explained why they think AI chatbots — including OpenAI LLC’s wildly popular ChatGPT — aren’t really ready for prime time.
Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, and John Hennessy (pictured), chairman of Google parent Alphabet Inc. both spoke at VC firm Celesta Capital’s invite-only TechSurge Global Deep Tech Summit conference today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Although they had varying views on the current and future utility of AI chatbots and the generative AI that powers them, it’s clear they think a lot more work needs to be done for them to be used both safely and efficiently.
Now, you might say, “Well, they’re both with Google, so why wouldn’t they express doubts about OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s work?” And there may be something to that. Bard’s reception had to sting, given Google’s long corporate leadership in AI.
But you really can’t dismiss either Cerf, widely known as the Father of the Internet, or Hennessy, the former Stanford University president and co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., whose RISC chip technology now underlies virtually all processors. They’ve been around the block.
https://siliconangle.com/2023/02/13/sal ... rime-time/
Less than a week after Google LLC stumbled when it introduced its experimental artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, two Google luminaries today explained why they think AI chatbots — including OpenAI LLC’s wildly popular ChatGPT — aren’t really ready for prime time.
Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, and John Hennessy (pictured), chairman of Google parent Alphabet Inc. both spoke at VC firm Celesta Capital’s invite-only TechSurge Global Deep Tech Summit conference today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Although they had varying views on the current and future utility of AI chatbots and the generative AI that powers them, it’s clear they think a lot more work needs to be done for them to be used both safely and efficiently.
Now, you might say, “Well, they’re both with Google, so why wouldn’t they express doubts about OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s work?” And there may be something to that. Bard’s reception had to sting, given Google’s long corporate leadership in AI.
But you really can’t dismiss either Cerf, widely known as the Father of the Internet, or Hennessy, the former Stanford University president and co-founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., whose RISC chip technology now underlies virtually all processors. They’ve been around the block.