Exploring the Capabilities of Google’s New Chatbot AI, Bard

Google CEO Sundar Pichai profiled Bard, the tech giant’s ChatGPT competitor, in a blog post Monday.Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Getty Images

• Google just released Bard, its competitor to ChatGPT.

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday that Bard will now be open to “trusted testers” and the public in a few weeks.

• The technology is based on LaMDA, a large language model that Google presented in May 2021.

Less than a month after artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT was unveiled to the world, Google management has issued a “Code Red” on the technology.

Amid the threat posed by Google’s vibrant new tool for its search business, CEO Sundar Pichai redirected several of the company’s teams to develop and launch the company’s AI products. The company also plans to unveil 20 new AI products this year and demonstrate a version of Google Search that includes AI chatbot capabilities.

On Monday, Pichai introduced his Bard AI service, which he described as “an experimental conversational AI service,” in a blog post on Google’s website. In other words, it’s Google’s new competitor from ChatGPT. Beginning Monday, Pichai said, Bard will open to “trusted testers” and open to the public in the coming weeks.

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard are trained on massive amounts of text data.

ChatGPT, for example, is powered by significant amounts of data and computing techniques that help it make predictions to put words together in a meaningful way.

Bard is powered by LaMDA, a dialog-trained language model that Google announced in May 2021.

In a video embedded in the post demonstrating how Bard works, a user asked the bot a question like “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?”. Bard, in turn, responded with colorful facts such as: “In 2023, the JWST discovered a series of galaxies nicknamed ‘green peas.’”

Pichai noted that Bard will draw on information from the web to provide “fresh, quality answers.”

However, Pichai noted that Google is releasing Bard with a “lightweight mockup version of LaMDA.” It’s a smaller model that, in his opinion, requires “significantly less computing power”.

It’s possible that Google is wary of Bard’s debut because it’s aware of the issues that come with “untested AI,” The Verge noted. Research has shown that unregulated large language models are known to spread hate speech.

Google didn’t immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

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