インターネット調査室：　「For tech giants, AI like Bing and Bard poses billion-dollar search problem」　＜ーGoogleの焦りが見え隠れ

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Reuters: 22 Feb, 2023

「For tech giants, AI like Bing and Bard poses billion-dollar search problem」：　あまりのマイクロソフト資本のChatGPTに人気が集まりついにGoogleも対抗対話AIを発表。

その名は「Bard」です。

が、しかし資金が回るかが頭痛の種？

As Alphabet Inc looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost.

はいはい。

The wildly popular chatbot from OpenAI, which can draft prose and answer search queries, has “eye-watering”

でしょうね。

Even with revenue from potential chat-based search ads, the technology could chip into the bottom line of Mountain View, Calif.-based Alphabet with several billion dollars of extra costs, analysts said. Its net income was nearly $60 billion in 2022.

恐ろし～　なんじゃ、このコスト。

Alphabet is facing pressure to take on the challenge despite the expense. Earlier this month, its rival Microsoft Corp held a high-profile event at its Redmond, Washington headquarters to show off plans to embed AI chat technology into its Bing search engine, with top executives taking aim at Google’s search market share of 91%, by Similarweb’s estimate.

しょうがない、現実。

In the meantime, some have considered charging for access, like OpenAI’s $20 per month subscription for better ChatGPT service. Technology experts also said a workaround is applying smaller AI models to simpler tasks, which Alphabet is exploring.

ん～

こうなったら、どうなるのでしょう？