Google engineer warns it could lose out to open-source technology in AI race

Google has been warned by one of its engineers that the company is not in a position to win the artificial intelligence race and could lose out to commonly available AI technology. A document from a Google engineer leaked online said the company had done "a lot of looking over our shoulders at OpenAI", referring to the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot. However, the worker, identified by Bloomberg as a senior software engineer, wrote that neither company was in a winning position. "The uncomfortable truth is, we aren't positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we've been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch," the engineer wrote.