Google has announced that it is in the early stages of launching a new Chatbot service called Bard, which would compete with ChatGPT.
According to what he said Sundar Pichai Google CEO said Bard will initially be open to internal testers. Then, at a later, undisclosed date, it will be open to the public.
Pichai commented on the matter, saying:
We've been working on an experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA, which we call Bard. Today, we're taking it a step further by opening it to trusted testers before making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.
Like ChatGPT, launched in late November by the artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI, Bard is built on an extensible language model. These models are trained on a large online dataset to generate convincing responses to user requests.
The news comes at a time when Google's flagship product is widely seen as its biggest threat in years. Two months after its public launch, ChatGPT was used to generate articles, stories, song lyrics, and answer some questions people may have asked Google before.
The massive interest in ChatGPT has prompted Google management to rush to introduce a similar tool that can perform various operations and activities through the use of artificial intelligence.
In a tweet last year, the Gmail co-founder warned Paulo Bouchet This Google may be just a year or two away from being completely paralyzed by the rise of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft, for its part, revealed plans to invest billions of dollars in artificial intelligence rules OpenAI and said it would integrate the tool into some of its products – rumor has it plans to integrate it into its Bing search engine.
What is Bard and how is it different from ChatGPT?
The underlying technology that powers Bard has existed for a long time, though it's not widely available to the public. About two years ago, Google unveiled its Language Model for Conversational Applications, or LaMDA. It announced last Monday that the technology will power Bard.
LaMDA made headlines late last year when a former Google engineer claimed the chatbot was "sentient" and behaving far beyond expectations. His claims were widely criticized in the AI community at the time.
Google also provided an example of a user asking Bard to explain new discoveries from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in a way that might interest a 9-year-old.
Bard gave talking points in his response:
In 2023, JWST observed several galaxies nicknamed "Green Peas." They were so named because they were small, round, and green, like peas.
Bard can help you make many decisions, like planning a party, suggesting a meal based on the ingredients in your fridge, or creating an entire article, like this one, which we use artificial intelligence to prepare.
Furthermore, imagine playing a PvE video game where artificial intelligence can control enemies by studying their behavior and playstyle and then confronting them. The challenges will be deadly then, and we can say goodbye to the Souls games and enter the era of artificial intelligence, which will eventually make you despair.
Are you ready for the future?
