Though it's long been a focus, artificial intelligence research has sat squarely in Google’s crosshairs since early 2023 when ChatGPT garnered attention. Google’s homegrown rival, Bard, was announced shortly afterward, but it is still catching up, with the newest addition being support for image creation to lock horns with DALL-E integration on ChatGPT. To mark this milestone, Google has also changed its profile picture on X to an AI-generated image, which could be an indirect reference to its rival DALL-E, but is rather creepy as a result.
