Google Bard is its ChatGPT rival

Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his blog post said, "Use Bard to simplify complex topics, like explaining new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old." (Screenshot: Google)

Google gave a sneak peek at its answer for OpenAI's ChatGPT. This automated text generation system took the world by storm in the two months since its public beta release. Google calls its long-rumoured chatbot AI Bard, and we expect to hear more about it during the "Google Presents" event on Wednesday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai considers Bard an "experimental conversational AI service. It is built on top of Google's existing Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) platform, which has been in development for the last two years. 

"Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models," Pichai declared in a blog post. "It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses." Now, it's unclear if it'll result in bigoted or racist responses, as we've seen on other chatbots. 

The program won't be open to the public like ChatGPT. Google is starting with the release of a lightweight version of LaMDA with far lower system requirements for a select group of users before scaling up from there. Google wants to ensure that Bard's responses meet a "high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information."

Chatting with internet users is only the start when it comes to Google's larger AI plans. Pichai mentioned that as user search requests become more complex and nuanced, "you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web."

Pichai added that this feature will roll out to users "soon." Select developers will be invited to explore the commercial API running on top LaMDA (called Generative Language API) next month.

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