Tech Tok: Google’s Bard to compete with ChatGPT

Days after Chinese search engine Baidu's plans to roll out ChatGPT-style chatbot surfaced, Google unveiled its own interactive AI tool, Bard.

Hyderabad: Days after Chinese search engine Baidu’s plans to roll out ChatGPT-style chatbot surfaced, Google unveiled its own interactive AI tool, Bard.

The tool is pegged to be a competition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT which recently clocked 100 million users in just two months since it was made available for public testing.

Bard will leverage LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), Google’s language model which was rolled out in 2021. The AI-powered chatbot will be able to offer answers to many queries in a conversational format — similar to ChatGPT. In a blog post, Google said that Bard draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.

The tool will be made available to “trusted testers” ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks, they added. ChatGPT, on the other hand, made its tool available to everyone to test for free initially.

Google will also be releasing a “lightweight model version of LaMDA,” which significantly requires less computing power. This will allow Google to receive more feedback in order to improve the tool.

Google has been working on its language model for a while now, but the public rollout was paused after internal issues with the staff.

It is interesting to note that in one of its earlier comments, Google said that ChatGPT is more like a ‘code red’. However, Google CEO Pichai indicated during the latest earnings call that the world is ready for generative AI, following the positive reception towards ChatGPT.

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