Google Launches AI-Powered Chatbot Bard to Compete with ChatGPT
Google is entering the AI chatbot market with the launch of Bard, a chatbot that will rival the popular ChatGPT. Bard will be tested by a group of users before its public release in the coming weeks, and it is built on Google’s existing language model, Lamda. One engineer has even described Lamda as being so human-like in its responses that he believed it was sentient.
In addition to launching Bard, Google is also introducing new AI tools for its search engine. AI chatbots are designed to answer questions and find information, using the internet as a vast database of knowledge. However, there are concerns that this may also include offensive material and disinformation.
In a blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized his desire for the company’s AI services to be “bold and responsible”, but did not elaborate on how Bard would prevent the sharing of harmful content. The chatbot will initially operate on a lightweight version of Lamda, which requires less power and can be used by more people at once.
Google’s announcement follows wide speculation that Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT to its search engine Bing. ChatGPT can answer questions and carry out requests in text form, using information from the internet as of 2021. It can generate speeches, songs, marketing copy, news articles, and student essays. Currently, ChatGPT is free for people to use, but OpenAI recently announced a subscription tier to complement free access.
The ultimate goal of chatbots is believed to be replacing web links with a definitive answer in internet searches. Pichai noted that people are asking more nuanced questions in Google search, and AI can synthesize insights for questions with no one right answer. He wrote that soon, AI-powered features in search will distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easily digestible formats.
In conclusion, with the launch of Bard, Google is entering a competitive AI chatbot market. The chatbot will initially operate on a lightweight version of Lamda and will be tested by a group of users before its public release. Pichai emphasized his desire for Google’s AI services to be “bold and responsible”. The ultimate goal of chatbots is believed to be replacing web links with a definitive answer in internet searches, and Google is working towards this goal by distilling complex information into easily digestible formats.
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