Google: How YouTube may help Google beat OpenAI in artificial intelligence ‘war’ – Times of India

OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT chatbot, got an early lead in generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. However, a report has now claimed that its probable toughest rival Google is pretty much well equipped to compete with it, especially after it upgraded its Bard chatbot with a new machine-learning model post I/O 2023.
Google announced PaLM 2, its state-of-the-art language model with improved multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities in May this year.The company has since been making regular updates in problem solving capabilities of its AI chatbot Bard.
According to a report by the Information, while Google develops a sequel to PaLM 2, “it may hold a trump card: YouTube.” The Google-owned streaming website is arguably “the single biggest and richest source of imagery, audio and text transcripts on the internet.” Citing a person with knowledge of the situation, the report said that Google’s researchers have been using YouTube to develop its next large-language model, Gemini. It is to be noted that Google CEO Sundar Pichai talked about how Google brought together DeepMind and Google Brain to make Google DeepMind, which is using computational resources and building more capable systems, safely and responsibly.
“Gemini was created from the ground up to be multimodal, highly efficient at tool and API integrations and built to enable future innovations, like memory and planning,” he said, noting that it offers “impressive multimodal capabilities not seen in prior models.”
OpenAI reportedly trained its AI models on YouTube
YouTube as a data source is a hot property, and the report also claimed that OpenAI secretly used data from the platform to train some of its AI models, one person with direct knowledge of the effort was quoted as saying.

It is to be noted that YouTube’s terms of service forbid using content for anything other than “personal, non-commercial use.” However, it is known that in the AI industry everyone is scraping the web constantly.
The development comes about two and half months after media reports said that Google used ChatGPT data to train Bard. It was also claimed that Google used data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, scraped from a website called ShareGPT, to train Bard.
The Pixel smartphone maker, however, denied saying “Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT.”