Why didn't Google make chatGPT first ?
Especially given their first move advantage in developing the transformer architecture, chatGPT 's ancestor model. They also had a far larger budget than openAI and access to a better talent pool. Not to mention a better pool of data. All the stars are aligned for them, but some how openAI overtake them. And Google had to play copycat instead of being the trend setter. What do you think it's the reason Google fall behind in research?
Too big to succeed
Complacence
Good question. Many have wondered about the same thing.
Google research was focused on placating academic types. Open AI was focused on shipping product.
They will be the next Meta scandal if they don’t handle them right
Because it wouldn't have got anyone a promotion. Or at least nobody could see how to build one and get a promotion for it. Or maybe because Search prints money for them - who needs search when you can have a bot just tell you the answer you're looking for?
You know ChatGPT wasn't intended to be a product originally. It was just a demo of the underlying foundation model. OpenAI stumbled into success just as much as Google flubbed their advantage.
Bard is such crap, google clearly has a middle management problem
Because it disrupts their core revenue stream (Search)