Google is launching its own artificial intelligence chatbot, called Bard, in response to the huge success of the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.
The company is also adding the technology behind Bard to Google’s search engine to allow complex queries, like whether the guitar or piano are easier to learn, to be distilled into digestible answers.
Bard will roll out to niche product testers on Monday and then become more widely available to the public in the coming weeks, Google said. Like ChatGPT, Bard works with the so-called large language model, in Google’s case called LaMDA.
Large language AI models like LaMDA and the one behind ChatGPT are types of neural networks, mimicking the underlying architecture of the brain in computer form. They receive large amounts of text from the Internet in a process that teaches them how to generate responses to text-based prompts.
ChatGPT has become a sensation after its public launch in November, creating all kinds of credible content, from academic essays to poems to job applications. According to analysts, it has already reached 100 million users.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, emphasized Bard’s ability to provide answers based on up-to-date information. The Google ad contained an example of Bard answering a question about how to explain new discoveries made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a nine-year-old boy, as well as learning about the best forwards in soccer “right now” while perform training exercises to emulate the best players.
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our great linguistic models,” Pichai said. “He relies on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality answers.”
Google also said that its latest artificial intelligence technologies, such as LaMDA, PaLM, Imagen image generator and MusicLM music maker, would be integrated into its search engine. Pichai said the new AI-powered features in its search engine would distill complex information and multiple perspectives into “easy to digest” formats.
Pichai used the example of asking Google which is the easier instrument to learn between a guitar and a piano, and then Google released an example of a conversation-style response to that query, instead of a link to a single post from Blog.
The answer is displayed at the top of the search page and states: “Some say the piano is easier to learn, as finger and hand movements are more natural, and learning and memorizing notes can be easier.” easy. Others say it’s easier to learn chords on the guitar and that you could pick up a strumming pattern in a couple of hours.”
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The company will also make the technology behind LaMDA available to developers, creators, and businesses to build apps using Google’s AI technology.
LaMDA became a topic of conversation about the potential power of AI last year when a Google engineer went public with claims that it was “aware.” Google said Blake Lemoine’s claims about LaMDA, an acronym for “language model for dialog applications,” were “totally unsubstantiated” and fired him.
Google’s announcement came as Microsoft, a key sponsor of ChatGPT, prepares to launch more products using the technology behind the chatbot. ChatGPT was developed by San Francisco-based OpenAI, which recently received a multi-million dollar investment from Microsoft.
Over the weekend, users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine reported having seen a product preview in which they could ask him questions of up to 1,000 characters, with the answers also citing sources. Microsoft is set to announce more details about the use of ChatGPT in its products in a press conference on Tuesday.
