Exploring the Benefits of Google’s AI-Powered Chatbot, Bard

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In response to the huge success of the Microsoft-powered ChatGPT, Google releases its own artificial intelligence chatbot called Bard.

The company is also adding the technology behind Bard to the Google search engine to distill complex queries – such as whether guitar or piano is easier to learn – into digestible answers.

Bard will be released to specialized product testers on Monday and will then be made available to a wider audience in the coming weeks, according to Google. Like ChatGPT, Bard is based on a so-called large language model – in Google’s case called LaMDA.

Big speech AI models like LaMDA and the one behind ChatGPT are types of neural networks – that mimic the underlying architecture of the brain in computer form – that are fed vast amounts of text to learn how to generate plausible responses to text. based prompts.

ChatGPT has become a sensation among users since its release in November, creating all types of content from academic essays to poetry to resumes.

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai highlighted Bard’s ability to provide answers based on up-to-date information. Google’s announcement included an example of Bard answering a question about how to explain the new discoveries made by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope to a nine-year-old, and how to learn about football’s best forwards “right now” while he Training drills gets top players imitating.

“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of knowledge in the world with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models,” said Pichai. “It relies on information from the web to provide up-to-date, high-quality answers.”

Google also said its latest AI technologies — like LaMDA, PaLM, image generator Imagen, and music creator MusicLM — would be integrated into its search engine. Pichai said new AI-powered features in its search engine would distill complex information and multiple perspectives into “easy-to-understand” formats.

Pichai used the example of asking Google which, between a guitar and a piano, was the easier instrument to learn, with Google then posting an example conversational-style response to that query — rather than a link to an individual blog post.

The company will also make the technology behind LaMDA available to developers, creators and companies to develop apps powered by Google’s AI technology.

Google’s announcement came as Microsoft, a key supporter of ChatGPT, is gearing up to launch more products using the technology behind the chatbot.

Over the weekend, users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine said they saw a preview of the product, where they could ask questions of up to 1,000 characters, with answers including a source.

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