Google DeepMind, its AI research lab, is developing a new chatbot called Gemini that could rival or surpass OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to CEO Demis Hassabis. Gemini, built on the capabilities of DeepMind's AlphaGo AI system, could analyze text, plan, and solve problems, Hassabis told Wired. AlphaGo is DeepMind's AI system that defeated a professional human player in the board game of Go. - Gemini aims to combine the strengths of AlphaGo's decision-making with advanced language capabilities.
- The large-scale, text-based language model is expected to leverage innovations in reinforcement learning, a technique that rewards or punishes AI systems to teach them desired behaviors.
- Gemini is still months away from an official launch. It's expected to cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for its development.
Although DeepMind previously introduced Sparrow, a dialogue agent focused on safe and appropriate responses, Gemini is the lab's most ambitious project in the space. - Previously, Hassabis said DeepMind might release Sparrow for a private beta sometime this year.
- Separately, Google released its own AI chatbot, Bard, in March.
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