So as somebody who runs the biggest search engine, how do you feel about that? And also, are these things just going to kind of merge over time?' And when you rolled out Bard, the company was careful to say, this is not a replacement for search. The interviewers picked up on this, saying: 'It strikes me that, 'what should I do for dad's birthday?' is a question that you also could have put into Google. On the same podcast in February, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott reached for an equally mundane use case to promote the new OpenAI-powered Bing – translating his daughter's 'Gen Z slang,' something that we demonstrated was probably more efficient to just run through Google's search engine. The two companies have gone toe to toe on the generative AI hype train, and Google has come out more bruised than it should like, with observers claiming the Chocolate Factory was slow to the draw on Microsoft's overtures toward OpenAI, the company behind the GPT large language models (LLMs) that have the world's collective knickers in a twist.

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