Google Built LaMDA Chatbot Equivalent In 2022 But Found It Too Toxic
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiGoogle was not far from launching its own ChatGPT-like product back in 2022. Sundar Pichai talks about how Google had already built a almost equvalent product around LaMDA, but its raw behavior was too toxic for Google standards, and unreliable to ship broadly. Pichai: "I think as a company, you had this search quality bias, and so, you know, we had a higher bar, for what we thought was an acceptable product quality to go out." The LaMDA model of Google was not simply a case of brilliant research sitting on a shelf, because Google had already started turning the model into a product and even exposed a constrained version through AI Test Kitchen. Pichai is also saying hindsight makes the miss look cleaner than it felt at the time, because even OpenAI’s move was not instantly obvious as the winning form factor. --- From @collision podast with @sundarpichai (full video link in comment)