Nico Grant and Cade Metz

The internet giant will grant users access to a chatbot after years of cautious development, chasing splashy debuts from rivals OpenAI and Microsoft.

A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.

Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees.

Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees.