Google Looks To Take On ChatGPT With New AI Technology - AI Summary

Google is set to unveil how it plans to rival the wildly successful ChatGPT AI, possibly within days. The technology giant has scheduled a 40-minute event for Wednesday 8 February, when it will reveal how it is "reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information". It's not clear whether the event will be AI-focused, but it comes days comes after Google's chief Sundar Pichai announced that the firm will make its chatbot technology available publicly in the coming weeks. Speaking on a call with investors in parent company Alphabet on Thursday, Mr Pichai said people will be able to "engage directly" with Google's conversational AI - starting with one called LaMDA, which has been in testing. Google has reportedly been fast-tracking its plans for so-called large language models since ChatGPT's launch. ChatGPT itself is one such model - an AI chatbot trained on a huge amount of text data, which