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BERT first work Jacob Devlin joined OpenAI only 3 months ago, and was exposed to return to Google.
According to people familiar with the matter, Devlin returned to Google and worked closely with Slav Petrov, the main developer of Bard.
The reason why Devlin left Google before was related to Bard, which can be described as "come and Bard, go to Bard".
The Information directly described the incident as "AI boomerang".
For this return, some netizens speculated that this may be a strategy for Devlin to seek a raise.
On Google's side, Devlin has previously been harshly critical of its executives.
The return of Devlin "regardless of previous suspicions" can also see that the competition for AI talents is too fierce.
Dissatisfied with Bard's "plagiarism" and chose to leave
The trigger for Devlin's departure from Google was related to the chatbot Bard.
A few months ago, it was revealed that Google Bard used content from ShareGPT as training data.
The latter is a sharing platform where users can share content with ChatGPT chats.
If that rumor is true, it's the equivalent of Google training Bard with ChatGPT.
According to OpenAI's user protocol, the content generated by ChatGPT cannot be used to train other AIs, but the results cannot be used commercially.
Obviously, Google's approach did not comply with this regulation.
After learning the news, Devlin directly found the CEO Brother Chop Chai and issued a warning.
After Devlin's warning, Google did stop the move.
In addition, there is also news that the training data previously involved in the use of ChatGPT has also been quietly deleted by Google.
But Google refuses to admit that it has used data from ShareGPT for training.
Bard's answer to this question was subtle.
The answer to the direct inquiry was of course no, but Bard "admitted" that he had viewed the content in ShareGPT.
Using friendly data to train his own product already made Devlin, a programmer, unhappy, and Google's response was even more difficult to satisfy, at least Devlin.
As a result, before Bard officially launched, Devlin left Google and joined OpenAI.
The progressively progressive Bard
Less than half a year since its birth, Bard's performance has indeed gradually improved and become more and more functional.
From the side, the reaction of netizens also proves this:
During the internal testing phase and early days of his birth, Bard felt disgusted even by Google's own employees.
And the newly released version even made some netizens regret paying for ChatGPT.
As for Bard itself, there have been blockbuster updates in recent months:
First in April, Bard added a series of code-related features, including generation, interpretation, and debugs, as well as one-click linking to colab.
Three weeks later, at the Google Developer Conference, a number of major updates were launched.
First of all, there is no need to wait in line for the test qualification, and you can use it directly.
There are also more languages supported, including Chinese, there are more than forty in total.
This version of Bard not only integrates with the newly released PaLM 2, but also integrates with other Google applications.
For example, with the image recognition tool Google Lens, Bard also has "visual ability".
In the content of the reply, you can also ask Bard to include an image.
Not only image recognition, online documents, online disks, mailboxes... Even the map has been integrated into the new version of Bard.
In addition to its own products, the popular Adobe Firely was also "invited" into Bard.
I wonder if Bard's progress is the reason why Devlin chose to return, and 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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