Google is expected to announce artificial intelligence integrations for the company's search engine on February 8 at 8:30 am Eastern. It's free to watch live on YouTube. "We're starting with AI-powered features in Search that distill complex info into easy-to-digest formats, so you can see the big picture, then explore more," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on Twitter in the lead-up to the event. Despite recent layoffs, the company remains an assertive force in Silicon Valley. The viral success of other generative AI models, specifically OpenAI's ChatGPT, put pressure on the company to expedite its experimental research for public use.

Microsoft's set to make an AI-related announcement today at 1pm ET, but it will not be streaming the keynote to the public. Not to worry, though, we're here at the event in Redmond and will be liveblogging all the news the company is sharing today. After Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival Bard yesterday, Microsoft revealed it had been planning today's event all along, without disclosing many details beyond telling us to expect information about "exciting projects." Thanks to a tweet from OpenAI's Sam Altman, though, we can at least guess that generative AI is on the agenda, if not the star of the show. We'll be starting this liveblog around 12:30pm ET, with myself (Cherlynn Low) on text and our head of video Brian Oh taking pictures.

Google and Baidu have both revealed that they will bring their own competitors of OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence into their search engines, as an AI arms race between the world's largest tech companies has exploded into the public sphere. The news comes just days after leaked images revealed that Microsoft is planning to integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine to provide results.

Just over two months ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, instantly thrusting the A.I.-powered chatbot into the center of mainstream discourse, with debates about how it could transform business, education and more. Now Google and the Chinese tech giant Baidu have unveiled their own chatbots, hoping to convince the world their efforts in so-called generative A.I. -- tech that can spout off conversational text, make images and more -- are just as ready for prime time. The service, which will be privately tested before being released more broadly soon, is based on technology that the company has been testing for months. It's Google's latest response to ChatGPT, whose success spurred the tech giant to declare a "code red" and rush out its own A.I.-powered offerings. Google's C.E.O., Sundar Pichai, made clear to employees in an internal memo, reviewed by CNBC, that Bard is now a top priority.

Microsoft has been teasing the importance of its OpenAI partnership recently, setting up just how important this moment is for the company's AI ambitions. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will turn AI models into the next major computing platform. "The next major wave of computing is being born, as the Microsoft Cloud turns the world's most advanced AI models into a new computing platform," Nadella said in an earnings statement last month. "We are committed to helping our customers use our platforms and tools to do more with less today and innovate for the future in the new era of AI."

Google announced its own AI service, Bard, on Tuesday, and Microsoft is expected to unveil its own AI chatbot on Tuesday. Based upon what we've seen, officially or not, both Microsoft's "new" Bing AI-powered search engine and You.com's YouChat cite a list of sources when presenting answers. The other two, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard, simply tell you what they think is the right answer. Google said Bard, which it described as an "experimental conversational AI service," will be tested with a small group of beta testers before a launch sometime later. Instead of licensing AI models from OpenAI, as Microsoft has, Google developed its own, called LAMDA.

What's happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year's breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an AI model that can transform existing videos into new ones by applying styles from a text prompt or reference image. What it does: In a demo reel posted on its website, Runway shows how the model, called Gen-1, can turn people on a street into claymation puppets, and books stacked on a table into a cityscape at night. Other recent text-to-video models can generate very short video clips from scratch, but because Gen-1adapts existing footage it can produce much longer videos. Why it matters: Last year's explosion in generative AI was fueled by the millions of people who got their hands on powerful creative tools for the first time and shared what they made, and Runway hopes Gen-1 will have a similar effect on generated videos. Last week, OpenAI unveiled a tool that can detect text produced by its AI system ChatGPT.

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) language model created by OpenAI, has been making waves across the internet, leading to questions on how AI will change the way we work and write. In the latest ICFJ Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting webinar, Jenna Burrell, director of research at Data & Society, dove into the pros of ChatGPT and how it can be a tool for journalists, as well as its limitations and what journalists should be cautious about. One of the most important tasks for journalists is simplifying complex topics for a general audience. ChatGPT makes this easier, Burrell said. Using the language model allows journalists to plug an abstract or part of an academic article into ChatGPT and ask the software to simplify it.

This tool is OpenAI's response to the heat it's gotten from educators, journalists, and others for launching ChatGPT without any ways to detect text it has generated. However, it is still very much a work in progress, and it is woefully unreliable. OpenAI says its AI text detector correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text as "likely AI-written." While OpenAI clearly has a lot more work to do to refine its tool, there's a limit to just how good it can make it. We're extremely unlikely to ever get a tool that can spot AI-generated text with 100% certainty.

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