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DeepMind's Sparrow: A Chatbot Built to Take on the Best

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RUNTHE AI
January 16, 2023

Good Morning AI Runners

Here's what we've got for you today:

  • ChatGPT Scammers

  • DeepMind's Sparrow: A Chatbot Built to Take on the Best

ChatGPT Scammers

Turns out that some developers have been trying to cash in on the hype by creating fake ChatGPT apps and flooding the iOS App Store and Google Play Store with them. Some of these apps even charge a premium for features that don't actually exist!

One example is an app called "ChatGPT Chat GPT AI With GPT-3", which was featured on TechCrunch. Despite being a fake app, it's managed to rank highly in multiple charts within the productivity category.

Most of these apps have been removed but there are still a few up and profiting.

DeepMind's Sparrow: A Chatbot Built to Take on the Best

Have you heard the buzz about DeepMind's Sparrow chatbot? It's set to launch into beta later this year. You see, ChatGPT from OpenAI is causing a stir in the AI world and it's making Google worry about its own core business. I mean, ChatGPT can give somewhat reliable answers to questions, and that's supposed to be Google's thing.

But Google's not just twiddling their thumbs, oh no. They've got their own AI magic up their sleeve. They've already showcased large language models optimized for dialogue, like LaMDA and Flamingo, before OpenAI's ChatGPT came along. And with Meena, Google had a chatbot ready to have proper conversations with humans by the end of 2020. The issue is, Google hasn't turned any of this research into a product yet, mainly due to security concerns.

But with ChatGPT and Microsoft's involvement with OpenAI, Google's feeling the pressure to show that it can keep up or even surpass OpenAI. That's where DeepMind comes in like a superhero. DeepMind's Sparrow chatbot is based on the Chinchilla language model, which has fewer parameters than OpenAI's largest models, but it's been trained with a ton of data. And it's shown to perform similarly or even better than ChatGPT. Plus, Google has other powerful language models like PaLM ready to go.

So why hasn't Google responded to ChatGPT yet? Well, they've cited concerns about the reliability and security of large language models, which are definitely valid concerns.

He says that DeepMind is also considering releasing its own chatbot, called Sparrow, for a “private beta” some time in 2023. (The delay is in order for DeepMind to work on reinforcement learning-based features that ChatGPT lacks, like citing its sources. “It’s right to be cautious on that front,” Hassabis says.)

But there may be another reason. Google's stuck in the "Innovator's Dilemma", where established companies struggle to adopt new technologies or business models that disrupt their traditional markets. Google's core business, search, is still growing and highly profitable, so a search chatbot would need a new way to make money.

But with DeepMind's Sparrow entering the scene, it looks like Google may have found a way out of the "Innovator's Dilemma." We'll have to wait and see how Sparrow performs in beta, but it's definitely worth keeping an eye on.

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