New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Legendary computer scientist and software engineer Jeff Dean made an astonishing revelation recently. According to 58-year-old former chief scientist of Google, Google had built a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot much before OpenAI released its own. Jeff Dean on 5 August disclosed that leading search engine created its version of chatbot - LMChat - a year before the launch of OpenAI's groundbreaking product in 2022.

He made this announcement in a podcast video recorded before he announced that he would leave the company after 27 years. During the days of Google's invention of chatbot. Dean led Google's AI division. He served this position from 2018 to 2023 before taking up the chief scientist role....