🔥 🔥 Open AI vs. The King of all Monsters
🌆 Google's Battle with AI Disruption: ChatGPT vs. Palm 2! 💥
"Nature always has a way of balancing itself. The only question is... what part will we play?" - Dr. Serizawa, Godzilla (2014)
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The best part of watching any Monster movie is how the humans work together to overcome the imminent threat. On a normal summer day, an unknown creature spawned from nuclear waste, raises out of the ocean to wreak havoc on Tokyo Bay. At first, the humans are terrified of this creature and attempt to flee to no avail. After all, where will they go? The monster destroys ships and bridges. It steps on vehicles and uses its plasma breath to shoot airplanes out of the sky. The Tokyo government sends in the military with tanks and fighter jets to bombard the monster with ammunition. Suddenly the monster unveils a new technique, it uses its powerful laser tale to slice the armory in half. When it all seems lost, when the fate of humanity is at death's door, the true potential of humanity reveals itself. Humans start to work together to not only fight for survival but to triumph over insurmountable odds. The story of Godzilla could be an allegory for many aspects of humanity’s struggle with technological disruption. When new technology arrives, it is disruptive to the landscape, and jobs that were previously deemed vital to the economy suddenly become obsolete. Eventually, the new market create a demand for jobs with expertise in that same disruptive technology. Remember to like, comment, and subscribe to help Medallion XLN create the new internet.
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For decades, Silicon Valley was notorious for disruptive technology. From Google’s impact on local libraries, Amazon's impact on malls, and Uber's impact on Taxi drivers. The only thing certain was that no industry was safe. Little did Google know, neither were they. After reaching mainstream popularity with it's image generator product, DALL-E 2, Open AI’s ChatGPT found extraordinary success. ChatGPT broke the record for the fastest-growing user base. Reaching 100 million users by January 2023, only a few months after launch. Many keen-eyed technologists noticed that ChatGPT performed some of the same tasks as search engines such as Google. ChatGPT made finding information for any book report extremely fast, it could write the whole book report. Although Google wrote the paper that the GPT-3 Transformers model is based on, many thought that this could be the beginning of the end for the most prominent tech company. As Jay-Z said on his legendary diss track Take Over, “You made it a hotline, but I made it a hot song”.
I should start quoting Jay-Z more often
For the first time, Google is being disrupted. Their standing as the greatest tech company in the world is being challenged by a newcomer. Google I/O 2023, was the opportunity to shoot confidence in the market, that not only is Open AI not a threat to their business but AI is being utilized in all of their other products. Google first introduced their new Large Language Model (LLM) Palm 2, which will be the backbone of all their AI-powered products. Palm 2 comes with improvements in reasoning, coding, and translation. Google Search added Snapshots which is a Search Generative Experience (SGE), which will generate answers that can provide more context based on your query at the top of the Search Engine. The Snapshots then allow further narrowing down. Google also made Bard, their conversational chatbot available to the public. Although Bard is supposed to be Google’s answer to ChatGPT, it has been criticized for giving inaccurate answers. Bard can code, answer math problems, help with writing, and also pull information directly from the web. Other products built on Palm 2 LLM include their image generator Imagen and music generator musicLM.
Google’s response to Open AI. Was it good enough?
My honest reaction to Google’s AI revelations were, “What took so long?” Those were the bare minimum improvements to the products. Dare I say, “I expected more”. Think about it, Google has a powerhouse of intellectuals, certified geniuses, and top-tier hackers working on…maintaining advertising revenue? The "Attention Is All you need", paper that the GPT series is based on, was written by Google. There should be no reason why Google isn't the foremost industry leader in Artificial Intelligence. Don’t get me wrong, I love to use their most boring products such as Google Search, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, and Youtube. The threat that Open AI's ChatGPT represents is more than a simplified User Interface (UI) that provides instant answers to queries via chatbot. Open AI is also bottling their secret sauce as an API and allowing the entire world to use it how they see fit. Open AI's partnership with Microsoft seems to be slowly devouring Google's marketshare in Search, yet Google is steadfast in maintaining the status quo. Maybe it's time for Google to live dangerously and start innovating like a StartUp. The KilledByGoogle.com webpage shows how many innovations that Google released that were discontinued. Google should use all those resources and brain power to build a new product that stands out...or buy the equivalent to YouTube in the AI space. The King of all monsters may soon be dethroned.
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