After nearly 4 years of absence, Google founding engineer – Sergey Brin returned to the company and started working on an artificial intelligence project here to provide the answer to the case of ChatGPT.
In the context of the artificial intelligence (AI) technology race that is “heating up” Silicon Valley, Google co-founder-engineer Sergey Brin has returned to his old company and embarked on a programming project after many years. year of absence.
On January 24, Brin handled the first lines of programming code since he left his daily job at Google in 2019. Forbes page quoted two sources confirming that Sergey had sent queries related to the project. LaMDA – Google’s natural language chat (chatbot) software. LaMDA was first announced in 2021, but only recently received more attention when Google had to find a way to compete with ChatGPT – OpenAI’s artificial intelligence launched in November 2022 has quickly gained 100 million users.
Brin submitted a query “CL” (short for “changelist”) to get access to the LaMDA training data. The source of Forbes confirmed that there were 2 lines of code changed in the configuration file to add Brin’s account. In addition, several dozen engineers submitted requests for LGTM approval (“look good to me”). Some other consensus also came from personnel outside the LaMDA project, indicating a group is eager for the return of the company’s co-founder.
However, Brin’s query also encountered a negative response from a part of Google employees. There have been responses asking Brin to “fix Google first”, or want him to speak to them in person after being apart for many years.
Google has not yet commented on the event.
Sergey Brin’s move is a small change in technical terms, but it shows how seriously Google views OpenAI and its rivals in the field of artificial intelligence as a threat. Both co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have been almost absent from the company since 2019 after Page resigned and transferred to Sundar Pichai to become CEO of Alphabet – Google’s parent company.
Recently, Pichai consulted the Google founders on the strategy of developing AI technology, as well as helping to get answers to ChatGPT, according to the New York Times. And Brin’s “hands-on” on LaMDA shows how founders respond to requests from the incumbent CEO.