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ChatGPT or Google Search: who will lead?

ChatGPT or Google Search: who will lead?

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. ChatGPT is the brainchild of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company. Its mission is to develop a “safe and beneficial” artificial general intelligence system or to help others do so. It is being visited by 650 million times since its release in November 2022. Approximately 25 million people use it daily. Technically speaking, ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot that employs GPT 3.5 model (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) to provide human-like responses. Developed by Open AI, it’s capable of dialogue-based interactions, thanks to its NLP (Natural language processing) and machine-learning techniques.

In simple terms, ChatGPT’s superpower is that you can chat or have a one-on-one conversation with the AI, i.e., use text prompts to ask questions and get answers. Moreover, ChatGPT is not just limited to answering basic questions. It can help you generate code snippets, debug your code, write SEO-friendly articles, YouTube Scripts, poetry, and scientific essays, correct your grammar, and whatnot.

It’s made splashes before, first with GPT-3, which can generate text that can sound like a human wrote it, and then with DALL-E, which creates what’s now called “generative art” based on text prompts you to type in. GPT-3, and the GPT 3.5 update on which ChatGPT is based, are examples of AI technology called large language models. They’re trained to create text based on what they’ve seen, and they can be trained automatically; typically with huge quantities of computer power over a period of weeks. For example, the training process can find a random paragraph of text, delete a few words, ask the AI to fill in the blanks, compare the result to the original and then reward the AI system for coming as close as possible. Repeating over and over can lead to a sophisticated ability to generate text.

For example, you can ask it encyclopedia questions like, “Explain Newton’s laws of motion.” You can tell it, “Write me a poem,” and when it does, say, “Now make it more exciting.” You ask it to write a computer program that’ll show you all the different ways you can arrange the letters of a word. ChatGPT doesn’t exactly know anything. It’s an AI that’s trained to recognize patterns in vast swaths of text harvested from the internet, then further trained with human assistance to deliver more useful, better dialog. The answers you get may sound plausible and even authoritative, but they might well be entirely wrong, as OpenAI warns.

Is ChatGPT free?

ChatGPT is free, however, from January 2023, OpenAI has added a paid version that responds faster and keeps working even during peak usage times when others get messages saying, “ChatGPT is at capacity right now.” They have also added a waiting list too. The charges for DALL-E art once you exceed a basic free level of usage. OpenAI seems to have found some customers, likely for its GPT tools. According to an estimate by Reuters the potential investors that it expects $200 million in revenue in 2023 and $1 billion in 2024.

Limitation of ChatGPT

Computers are famously literal, refusing to work unless you follow exact syntax and interface requirements. Large language models are revealing a more human-friendly style of interaction, not to mention an ability to generate answers that are somewhere between copying and creativity.

As per OpenAI, ChatGPT can give you wrong answers and can give a misleading impression of greatness; which means ChatGPT’s answers can look authoritative but be wrong. It’ll be well articulated and sound like it came from some professor at Harvard. But if you throw it a curveball, you’ll get nonsense. If you ask it a very well-structured question, with the intent that it gives you the right answer, you’ll probably get the right answer. As StackOverFlow, a software developer site warned that because the average rate of getting correct answers from ChatGPT is too low, the posting of answers created by ChatGPT is substantially harmful to the site and to users who are asking or looking for correct answers.” Many research journals take it as scientific misconduct which is no different from altered images or plagiarism of existing work.

Evolution

In 1950 Alan Turing proposed the famous “Imitation Game”. It is the way to measure intelligence. For example, can a human communicating with a human and simultaneously with a computer, tell which is which?. Chatbots have been of interest for years to companies looking for ways to help customers get what they need. Companies who have tried it in place of humans to handle customer service work have limited success. A study conducted Ujet , 1,700 US Citizens whose technology handles customer contacts, found that 72% of people found chatbots a total waste of time.

While we can’t predict the future, we can surely explore, experiment, and compare ChatGPT and Google to find answers to the above question. The idea is simple, we’re going to ask some questions to the duo and see who answers better. But first, let’s get the basics right.

ChatGPT Vs Google

Both ChatGPT and Google are designed to interpret and answer your questions, their approach is what sets them apart. ChatGPT understands the query, searches its database, and presents a dialogue-based answer like a fellow person/expert would. Contrarily, Google takes your query, searches it across billions of web pages, and presents relevant web pages that might have the answer.

Google is ruling the world for about two decades. Perceptibly, it has the upper hand over a technology that’s not even in the toddler stage. ChatGPT has the bare bones and capability to rule, but it still has to learn, develop, and adapt a lot to reach that level. Moreover, Google constantly adapts to the sense and sensibilities of its audience and brings new features and algorithm changes accordingly. So, beating Google might be difficult for ChatGPT. Our guess is that both will coexist, eventually making our life easier. ChatGPT uses a conversational approach, the AI answers queries directly. There can be explanations if needed, but mostly it will be a straightforward answer. Whereas, Google just fetches results. You’ll have to scroll, choose a suitable website, and skim through the website’s SEO-oriented content for the answer. And though, Google offers a feature snippet section that directly answers the question, it isn’t as effective as ChatGPT. Though ChatGPT’s lead time might be higher than Google’s right now due to increased traffic.

Basically, Google is a search engine powered by algorithms without human-like qualities or emotions. However, the data and websites it brings upon are mostly written by humans, i.e., experts on the topic. And as of now, Google’s strongest suit is this human element. While ChatGPI’s language model is capable of simulating human-like conversation, it can’t compete with human experience, stories, emotions, biases, etc. Where ChatGPT can give a satisfactory answer to which OS is better iOS or Android, Google will share blogs/articles/videos by tech experts, i.e., people who have genuinely used both Android and iPhone.

Though Google offers unlimited answers to queries, it is still limited by the information available on the web pages. Whereas ChatGPT can tailor the information precisely to the requirements. Where Google will guide to a technique, tool, or method that can accomplish the task, ChatGPT will do the deed. Now, whether that’s solving a math puzzle, writing a code, summarizing a thesis, or writing an email, all can be done. In other words, Google is like a teacher who’ll teach by example, while ChatGPT is like a friend who’ll do the homework.

Google Bard Vs Bing ChatGPT

Google Bard and Bing ChatGPT have taken the world by storm ever since they have been unveiled. While Bing ChatGPT has taken the lead by integrating the conversational AI chatbot in the search bar, Google Bard is not far behind. This move is expected to transform the way search engines function, and users will now receive a summary of answers as opposed to just links. Search engines will now be more interactive and hold conversations with the users. 

For probably the first time in the history of Search, Bing ChatGPT has taken the lead by integrating conversational-style answers before Google Bard was even launched. Google even had to sound a Code Red to be able to compete with Microsoft. ChatGPT reportedly has achieved a 100 million visits so far. While Google Bard is still under testing, Bing ChatGPT has already invited the public to sign up for its waitlist and is gradually rolling out. The traffic for Bing has reportedly already increased after they announced the ChatGPT integration.

At the moment, Bing ChatGPT seems to be providing accurate answers while also providing links that quote the source of the summary. 

ChatGPT has basically been built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models and is fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow the instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. Google Bard on the other hand is powered by Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). It has been launched on the lightweight model version of LaMDA. This smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling the company to scale to more users, and allowing for more feedback.

Who Is Expected to Succeed?

While Bing ChatGPT seems to be ahead at the moment. Google’s paranoia about ChatGPT is inspiring. Android. Google Maps. Gmail. Google Docs. Chrome. YouTube. If they are paranoid then they will figure out a way to be a significant player AI as well. In addition to this, Google undoubtedly has in its possession a lot more data considering the fact that it has been an indisputable leader for several years as far as Search Engines are concerned. The latest data shows that Google processes over 99,000 searches every single second, which makes more than 8.5 billion searches a day according to Internet Live Stats, 2022. ChatGPT on the other hand has had about 100 million visits so far.

Will ChatGPT encourage cheating in schools?

We all know that the invention of the calculator saves us from the tediousness of long calculations. In the past, the student goes to libraries and refer books, encyclopedias, thesaurus, and dictionaries. Now they’ve been able to search the internet and delve into Wikipedia entries. ChatGPT offers new abilities for everything from helping with research to doing your homework for you outright. Many ChatGPT answers already sound like student essays, though often with a quality that seems staler and more obscure than a writer might prefer. Educators thought that Google, Wikipedia, and the internet itself would ruin education, but they did not. We cannot stop the evolution of technology and the ever-changing learning methodologies. Discouraging the acknowledgment of AI like ChatGPT will be like living in a fool’s paradise. It is a tool like a knife in the kitchen. A knife in the wrong hands would be catastrophic. One can hope that educators will learn to use ChatGPT as a tool and realize it can help students think critically. The companies that sell tools to high schools and universities to detect plagiarism are now expanding to detecting AI, too. For example Copyleaks, the leading voice in ensuring and protecting content originality has released a free Chrome extension designed to spot ChatGPT-generated text with a technology that’s 99% accurate. Copyleaks performed an early test of student assignments uploaded to its system by schools. Around 10% of student assignments submitted include at least some level of AI-created content.

ChatGPT can help in writing computer codes

ChatGPT can retrace steps humans have taken, and it can generate actual programming code. ChatGPT can parse regular expressions (regex), a powerful but complex system for spotting particular patterns, for example, dates in a bunch of text or the name of a server in a website address. ChatGPT can also emulate a Linux computer, delivering correct responses to command-line input.

AI in Bing

Recently Microsoft announced an enhanced Bing. It has company’s longtime second-place search engine now has the AI tech behind ChatGPT inside. The service will include a chatbot that can answer your queries in a conversational style, letting you use it for things like planning travel or researching home improvement projects. Now Bing can summarize broad topics; design projects write text for you.

The search service aims to take on queries that aren’t getting relevant results on today’s search engines. People increasingly use search to get advice and information on complex topics, not just a link to a website and the AI boost to Bing aims to make it more usable. On Bing.com, Microsoft has applied OpenAI’s model to its search ranking engine. That led to a huge leap in the relevance of search results, so you’ll find better responses to your basic searches on Bing.

Can Bing write?

Yes, the new Bing can write for you. For example, after you research your workplace improvement project, you can ask Bing to write an email to your partner summarizing what you found. You can edit the writing, and click into the text box of a new email.

You can also ask Bing to write something with a fresh prompt, similar to many examples of ChatGPT’s writing that users have shared online recently. Anything from a fanciful story to writing a letter to a boss contesting a raise in salary.


The author, Mr. Nazir Ahmed Shaikh is freelance writer, columnist, blogger and motivational speaker. He write articles on diversified topics. Mr. Shaikh could be contacted at nazir_shaikh86@hotmail.com.

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