Google answers ChatGPT with its own chatbot

Google has been at the forefront of AI research for years, scooping up many of the field's brightest scientists and using the tech to improve the quality of language translation, search results and a host of other technologies the company uses. But over the last six months, smaller companies like OpenAI have captured more attention -- and venture capital investment -- by making tools like AI image- and text-generators directly available to the public. That's at odds with the Big Tech companies' generally more cautious approaches, which have been shaped by earlier public relations disasters, such as chatbots that spouted racism and hate speech, or a Google project to build image recognition software for the military that spurred an employee revolt.