Reading the evaluation of Palm2 there, Google's really shooting themselves in the foot. "Why is the sky blue?" "I'm sorry, as a language model..."
I have absolutely no inside info or actual knowledge to back up this hunch, but part of me thinks Google released PaLM2 just to get something out the door that was somewhat comparable to OpenAI's models.
That way they can say they put something out and that they're "competing", but internally, maybe they're really looking forward to (and working on) their next-gen AI models. Something to compete with a hypothetical future GPT-5, but maybe they're looking to get their version out faster than OpenAI can. I feel like Google is really going to give it their all on the next-gen model they release (not PaLM 2, but whatever they're working on after it).
Curious to hear other people's thoughts on this.
I don’t know if this was an oversight or them just throwing up their hands knowing they needed to release something. Rumors I’ve seen claim that Gemini will be far more powerful, so I guess they’re just biding their time.
Idly, I do sometimes think back to Blake Lemoine. Is this seriously what he thought was a conscious AGI? Or have they heavily gimped it in the process of aligning it?