On Monday, Google announced an AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT called “Bard.”
In the announcement, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Bard is now available to “trusted testers” and will be more widely available “in the coming weeks.” Following the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google executives declared a “code red” indicating the technology threatened Google’s generative AI plans.
Like ChatGPT, Bard will query information from the web to “provide fresh, high-quality responses.”
Uses for Bard are far-ranging as it uses any information available on the internet. Bard will be powered by a pared down model of LaMDA, its language processing technology. Pichai says this LaMDA model requires less computing power which will be easier to scale to more users and gain feedback faster. The testing phase will incorporate external feedback into Google’s own internal testing in order to “meet a high bar for quality, safety and groundedness in real-world information.”
Along with the announcement of Bard, Google plans to add more AI-powered features to Google search, summarizing information within the search page and providing deeper insights into the users’ queries.
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