Google Leading the AGI Race
... and it isn't close, Microsoft included.
Google Search has been a torrential downpour of cash flow for Google for over 20 years.
With this in mind, Google had no incentive to disrupt the financial dominance of Search… until OpenAI’s ChatGPT launch.
That’s when the world changed for Google, and the rest of us.
An incredible new way to learn and create emerged — you can “talk” to information with ChatGPT and other LLMs.
Soon user behaviors started to shift.
We bypassed Google and interacted with AI instead.
Accordingly, Google’s incentives shifted. That’s when we met Google Bard — the first chatbot intelligence released by Google.
While Bard was not successful in replacing ChatGPT, it did give Google a vital window into how users interact with conversational intelligence. Engineers at Google DeepMind studied the natural language interactions happening in Google’s search product, and compared those to conversations in Bard.
In parallel to the Bard experiment, a massive stealth project was rapidly staffed in Google’s California and New…
