AI to Change the World

The battle for AI is going on and there are different winners, going forward there will be only a few numbers of AI enabled pathbreaking products by the time the first round of dust is settled. The hegemony of well-established players in different products may witness a near erosion. The future is not ours to see, what will be, will be. This would always remain the final truism. The present, portends the change in the offing; the nature, dimension and impact may still be far from known.

The release of the large language model *ChatGPT, dialogue based, seems to be turning the table. It is making waves already. ChatGPT interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

The number of users touched a million in five days of its release. There are several use cases, from essay writing to programming and a lot many in between. The deficiencies of this model have also been brought out in the public domain.

Building search systems is hard. Preparing them to work with machine learning is really hard. Developing a complete search engine framework integrated with AI is really really hard.

At the same time, we have witnessed the growth of Elastic, which is facing competition from the world of Google, MongoDB, Microsoft, Amazon and Cloudera. Elastic ranks 1st in Overall Culture Score on Comparably vs its competitors.

Google seems to have finally acknowledged the challenge. It has been reported in the New York times that Google has issued a “code red” over the rise of AIbot ChatGPT. It has been reported that CEO Sundar Pichai has redirected some teams to focus on AI products. Google synonymised search for two decades now and have always remained way ahead of the curve.

For the first time a challenge seems to have appeared on the horizon, it might be miles away, it might or might not happen. Google might be able to upstage who knows, but the fact of the matter is that the issue is there and which can at its worst be existential.

Certainly, it has sparked concerns of the future of Google search engine. It has been created by a buzzy conversational-artificial intelligence based chatbot created by OpenAI. Google’s CEO participated in many strategy meetings and refocused their efforts to address the threat posed by ChatGPT. The debate rages whether ChatGPT has the potential to replace Google search engine and, in turn, hurt Google’s ad-revenue business model. For tech users globally, there cannot be a better time.

Artificial intelligence is shaping the future of humanity across nearly every industry. It is already the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics and IoT, and it will continue to act as a technological innovator for the foreseeable future.