ChatGPT would soon encounter a rival from Google through its AI-powered chatbot known as Bard. It would be used by testers before it is made available to the public within the next few weeks.
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Bard is built on Lamda, the existing large language model by Google. As per an engineer, it is so human-like in its replies that he thought it to be sentient. Google’s search engine would get new AI tools as announced by the company.
AI chatbots are developed to reply to questions and look for information. ChatGPT is the greatest example. It uses the enormous amount of knowledge and information available on the internet but there are concerns about it being including misinformation and offensive content.
Sundar Pichai says
Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog, “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models.” He wants it to be “bold and responsible” but he did not mention how Bard would thwart abusive and harmful information or content from being shared.
More info about Bard
The platform would function on a “lightweight” version of Lamda initially so that it uses less power and enable more people to use it simultaneously. Google made this announcement soon after Microsoft planned to introduce ChatGPT to its search engine Bing. Microsoft invested billions of dollars in OpenAI to further develop this tool.
What is ChatGPT
ChatGPT can reply to queries and carry out certain requests in text form based on all the information available on the Internet till 2021. It can generate songs, speeches, news articles, marketing copy, and student essays. It is free to use for the general public but costs a few pennies to the company when anybody uses it. OpenAI announced a subscription tier recently to complement free access.
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Future of chatbots should be
Experts believe that the ultimate aim of chatbots should be internet search where they should be able to replace numerous web links with a definitive answer. Pichai said that people are asking more nuanced questions these days as it used to be simple before when using search engines.
Sundar wrote, “AI can be helpful in these moments, synthesizing insights for questions where there’s no one right answer.” He added further, “Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distil complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web.”
