“Exploring the Future of AI: Google Launches ChatGPT Rival Bard”

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Google is launching an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot called Bard to compete with ChatGPT.

Bard will be used to a panel of testers before it is revealed to the public in the coming weeks, the company said.

Bard builds on Google’s existing large language model, Lamda, which one engineer in his responses described as so human-like he believed it was sentient.

The tech giant also announced new AI tools for its latest search engine.

“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog.

Mr Pichai emphasized that he wanted Google’s AI services to be “bold and responsible” but did not elaborate on how Bard would be prevented from sharing harmful or abusive content.

The platform will initially be powered by a “lightweight” version of Lamda that requires less power so more people can use it at the same time, he said.

Google’s announcement follows widespread speculation that Microsoft is about to bring the AI ​​chatbot ChatGPT to its Bing search engine after investing several billion dollars in the company behind it, OpenAI.

ChatGPT can answer questions and execute textual requests based on information gathered from the web as in 2021. It can generate speeches, songs, marketing texts, news articles, and student essays.

It’s currently free to use, although it costs the company pennies every time someone does so. OpenAI recently announced a subscription tier to complement free access.

However, experts believe that the ultimate goal of chatbots is Internet search — replacing web-linked pages with a definitive answer.

Sundar Pichai said people are using Google search to ask more nuanced questions than they used to.

While in the past the question was often asked about the piano, for example, how many keys it has, today it is more the question of whether it is more difficult to learn than the guitar – which cannot be answered factually immediately.

“AI can be helpful in those moments, synthesizing insights for questions that don’t have a right answer,” he wrote.

“Soon you’ll see AI-powered features in search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-understand formats so you can quickly see the big picture and learn more from the web.”

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