As AI continues to grow in importance, Google has announced that it is working on Bard, a chatbot that aims to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
In a new blog post, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the next tool will be an “experimental conversational AI service” aimed at mimicking human conversation. It’s touted as a powerful tool for users looking for answers to specific questions they may have, like baking a cake or figuring out how many Grammys Beyoncé has won.
Bard is an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA. Built using our great language models and drawing on information from the web, it’s a launchpad for curiosity and can help simplify complex topics → https://t.co/fSp531xKy3 pic.twitter.com/JecHXVmt8l
-Google Google) February 6, 2023
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of knowledge of the world with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our great language models,” Pichai writes in the blog post. “It relies on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality answers.”
This announcement comes after ChatGPT, launched as a prototype at the end of November, gained popularity.
Last month, tech giant Microsoft announced a multi-million dollar investment in OpenAI. And earlier today, Microsoft announced new versions of its Bing and Edge search engines, which use the same AI technology foundation as ChatGPT.
Bard is currently available to a group of “trusted testers”. as Pichai noted in the post, but promised the tool would be “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.”
Taylor is the Associate Technical Writer at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
