Google quickly responded to the claim after a former employee claimed that Google’s new AI chatbot, Bard, received data from its competitor ChatGPT.
Bard, which started public testing last week, is also a competitor to Bing Chat, which has a license to use Microsoft’s OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. However, before leaving the company, former Google AI researcher Jacob Devlin recently warned Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai that Bard had indirectly received data from ChatGPT, according to a report by The Information.
Devlin noted that the Bard development team accessed a website called ShareGPT, and ChatGPT conversations from users were then published on that site for anyone to check out. However, Google spokesperson Chris Pappas said in a quick reply via The Verge that “Bard has not been trained in any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT” and flatly denied the claim.
The Information also claimed, through anonymous sources, that Google’s Brain AI team has joined forces with DeepMind, another AI company under Alphabet.
The two groups are reportedly working on a new project codenamed Gemini, with the goal of this project being stated as to come up with a product that can compete with OpenAI’s efforts. The news seems to suggest that Google wants a backup chatbot option in case Bard efforts fall short.
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