Google said Bard will be available to the public in the coming weeks.
If you’ve ever needed AI help planning a friend’s baby shower, your time has come, because Google has officially unveiled an AI program it calls Bard, apparently its answer to the Viral ChatGPT.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Bard on the company’s blog on Monday, calling it “an important next step” in AI for the search engine giant.
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of knowledge of the world with the power, intelligence and creativity of our great language models,” Pichai said. “It relies on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality answers.”
The company’s new AI chatbot is based on its Language Model for Dialog Applications (LaMDA) and is only available to a select group of testers.
Based on a video share by Pichai on Twitter, users could use Bard to compare two Oscar-nominated movies, come up with lunch ideas based on the ingredients in someone’s fridge, or learn about the latest discoveries from the James Webb Telescope.
Google said Bard will be widely available to the public in the coming weeks.
“It’s a really exciting time to be working on these technologies as we translate extensive research and breakthroughs into products that really help people,” Pichai said.
Bard is apparently Google’s answer to ChatGPT, an AI-based program that has exploded in popularity in recent months after users shared posts from the tool composing Shakespearean poetry, writing music lyrics and identifying bugs in computer code.
Created by the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is a chatbot – a computer program that converses with human users. The program uses an algorithm that selects words based on lessons learned from scanning billions of texts on the Internet.
Microsoft, which invested in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, announced last month that it was expanding its partnership with the company and investing billions of dollars in the company.
According to Forbes, Microsoft is investing up to $10 billion in ChatGPT and could integrate it into its Bing search engine.
ABC News’ Arthur Jones II and Max Zahn contributed to this report.
