BERT jumps horizontally repeatedly in one move! Only three months after joining OpenAI, he returned to Google and rejoined the Bard project.

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Jacob Devlin , the creator of BERT, has only been working at OpenAI for 3 months , and it was revealed that he has returned to Google.

According to people familiar with the matter, Devlin worked closely with Bard's main developer Slav Petrov after returning to Google .

The reason why Devlin left Google before was related to Bard, which can be said to be "Bard comes, Bard goes."

The Information directly used "AI boomerang" to describe this incident.

Regarding this return, some netizens speculated that this may be Devlin's strategy to seek a salary increase.

From Google's perspective, Devlin has severely criticized its executives before.

The return of Devlin "regardless of past grudges" this time also shows that the competition for AI talents is too fierce.

Dissatisfied with Bard’s “plagiarism” and chose to resign

The trigger for Devlin's previous departure from Google was related to the chat robot Bard.

A few months ago, it was revealed that Google Bard used the content in ShareGPT as training data.

The latter is a sharing platform where users can share the content of chats with ChatGPT.

If the rumor is true, it would be equivalent to Google training Bard with ChatGPT.

According to OpenAI's user agreement, the content generated by ChatGPT cannot be used to train other AIs, but the training results cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Obviously, Google's approach does not comply with this regulation.

After learning the news, Devlin went directly to CEO Pichai and issued a warning.

After Devlin's warning, Google did stop the move.

There is also news that previous training data involving the use of ChatGPT was also quietly deleted by Google.

However, Google refused to admit that it had used the data in ShareGPT for training.

Bard's answer to this matter is very subtle.

The answer to direct inquiries was of course no, but Bard "admitted" that he had browsed the content in ShareGPT.

Devlin, a programmer, is already dissatisfied with using data from friends to train his own products, and Google's response is even more unsatisfactory - at least Devlin.

As a result, before Bard was officially released, Devlin left Google and turned to OpenAI.

Bard who is gradually improving

Less than half a year after its birth, Bard's performance has indeed gradually improved, and its functions have become more abundant.

From the side, the reaction of netizens also proves this point:

During the internal testing phase and early stages of Bard's creation, even Google's own employees felt disgusted.

The newly released version even makes some netizens regret paying for ChatGPT.

As for Bard itself, there have been major updates in recent months:

First, in April, Bard added a series of code-related functions, including generation, interpretation and debugging, as well as one-click link to colab.

At the Google Developers Conference three weeks later, a number of major updates were launched.

First of all, there is no need to wait in line for test qualifications, you can use it directly.

More languages ​​are supported, including Chinese, there are more than 40 in total.

This version of Bard not only integrates the newly released PaLM 2, but also integrates other Google applications.

For example, with the help of the image recognition tool Google Lens, Bard also has "visual abilities."

You can also ask Bard to add pictures to the reply content.

Not only image recognition, but also online documents, network disks, mailboxes... and even maps are integrated into the new version of Bard.

In addition to its own products, Adobe Firely, which people love to see, has also been "invited" to Bard.

I wonder if Bard’s progress is the reason why Devlin chose to return. What do you think?

Reference links:
[1]https://twitter.com/glenngabe/status/1672284772721209344
[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-boomerang-googles-internal-critic-returns-from-rival- openai
[3] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/L2VKm3y3HLyB0GCqoM8NmA [4] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4FIe56KhaPdef9y_HswxFA

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