Google CEO Sundar Pichai creates the DeepMind project to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems

Alarmed by the success of Microsoft-owned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have created a unit to help the company build more powerful AI systems safely and responsibly.

This group, called Google DeepMind, brings together two leading research groups in the field of AI: Google Research’s Brain team and DeepMind.

“Their collective achievements in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequential sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks such as TensorFlow and JAX for large-scale detection, training, and deployment of ML models,” Pichai explained in a blog post late Thursday.

As CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis leads the development of the most efficient and responsible general artificial intelligence systems – research that helps develop the next generation of Google products and services.

“Jeff Dean will take on the senior role of Chief Scientist at Google and report to me. In this capacity, he will serve as Principal Scientist at Google Research and Google DeepMind,” Pichai said.

Google has used AI to improve many of its core products, from search, YouTube and Gmail to the camera on Pixel phones.

“We’ve helped businesses and developers harness the power of AI through Google Cloud, and we’ve demonstrated the potential of AI to address societal issues like health and climate change,” Pichai added.

As Microsoft takes the lead with AI-powered Bing Search and ChatGPT, Google will also release a new AI-powered search next month, with more features coming this fall.

According to the New York Times, the new features will be available exclusively in the United States and will initially roll out to up to one million users.

The company’s plans are part of efforts to respond to the threat posed by Microsoft’s Bing chatbot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Google’s chatbot called Bard was released in March to a limited number of users in the US and UK.

However, Bard has a long way to go to catch up with ChatGPT and GPT-4.

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