At Google, employees are asked to spend 2 to 4 hours a day training ChatGPT's competitor
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:55 am
ChatGPT's rushed competitor clearly needs a little more time. After a mistake on the first exoplanet ever observed, which cost Alphabet $100 million in market capitalization, the company wants to improve its product. So it's asking its employees to help.
Sundar Pichai calls the shots
Has Sundar Pichai finally listened to his employees? After the hasty launch of Bard, intended to compete with the kuwait mobile database popular ChatGPT, internal criticism of the move mounted. Employees explained that the launch had been rushed and that it had therefore been logically punished by the market.
Alphabet's CEO received the memo and has just sent his response to the workforce. In an email to staff, he said he would "appreciate" it if all staff members "contributed more extensively" to testing and training Bard. And the boss wasn't vague about his "suggestion," estimating this training at two to four hours per day for each employee.
170,000 personal trainers
And the math holds up. We know that ChatGPT benefited from 100 million people using it two months after its release, generating a wealth of feedback to improve the AI. And quickly making it ready to integrate into the Bing search engine.
Alphabet employs 170,000 people worldwide. A figure that, at first glance, seems rather small compared to the 100 million cited above. Except that many of the listed ChatGPT users likely only occasionally used the chatbot.
The Mountain View company can thus partially make up for lost time by multiplying the hours of use for each person sitting in front of Bard, and ultimately achieve a usage volume fairly similar to that of its rival. Will Sundar Pichai's calculation pay off?
Sundar Pichai calls the shots
Has Sundar Pichai finally listened to his employees? After the hasty launch of Bard, intended to compete with the kuwait mobile database popular ChatGPT, internal criticism of the move mounted. Employees explained that the launch had been rushed and that it had therefore been logically punished by the market.
Alphabet's CEO received the memo and has just sent his response to the workforce. In an email to staff, he said he would "appreciate" it if all staff members "contributed more extensively" to testing and training Bard. And the boss wasn't vague about his "suggestion," estimating this training at two to four hours per day for each employee.
170,000 personal trainers
And the math holds up. We know that ChatGPT benefited from 100 million people using it two months after its release, generating a wealth of feedback to improve the AI. And quickly making it ready to integrate into the Bing search engine.
Alphabet employs 170,000 people worldwide. A figure that, at first glance, seems rather small compared to the 100 million cited above. Except that many of the listed ChatGPT users likely only occasionally used the chatbot.
The Mountain View company can thus partially make up for lost time by multiplying the hours of use for each person sitting in front of Bard, and ultimately achieve a usage volume fairly similar to that of its rival. Will Sundar Pichai's calculation pay off?