Google has finally decided to respond to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
What is Bard, when can I access it?
- Google’s Bard has been in development for several years and is based on LaMDA, the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications system.
- It is a “experimental conversational AI service,” according to Sunder Pichai.
- Google will make it available to trusted testers before making it widely available to the public in the coming weeks.
- It is not yet available to the general public.
What is Bard based on?
- Bard is based on Transformer technology, which also powers ChatGPT and other AI bots.
- Google pioneered transformer technology, which was made open-source in 2017.
- Transformer technology is a neural network architecture that can predict outcomes based on inputs. It is primarily used in natural language processing and computer vision technology.
- A Google engineer previously claimed LaMDA was a’sentient’ being with consciousness.
How does it function?
- Bard uses information from the internet to provide unique, high-quality responses.
- In short, it will provide in-depth, conversational, and essay-style responses, much like ChatGPT does now.
- It requires much less computing power, allowing us to scale to more users and provide more feedback.
How about its processing power?
- Remember that running these models requires a significant amount of computing power.
- ChatGPT, for example, is powered by Microsoft’s Azure Cloud services.
- This also explains why the service frequently encounters errors due to a high volume of users.
The primary distinction between ChatGPT and Google’s Bard
- Google appears to have an ace up its sleeve to take on ChatGPT: the ability to draw information from the Internet.
- Bard uses information from the internet to provide unique, high-quality responses.
- ChatGPT has impressed with its ability to respond to complex queries — albeit with varying degrees of accuracy — but perhaps its most significant shortcoming is that it cannot access real-time information from the Internet.
- ChatGPT’s language model was trained on a massive dataset to generate text based on input, but the dataset is currently only up to 2021.
Is Bard superior to ChatGPT?
- Right now, Bard appears to be a limited release.
- Google is currently soliciting feedback on Bard, so it is difficult to say whether it will be able to answer more questions than ChatGPT.
- Google has also not specified how much knowledge Bard possesses.
- For example, we know that ChatGPT’s knowledge is limited to events until 2021.
- Of course, it is based on LaMDA, which has been making headlines for quite some time.
Why is Google announcing Bard now?
- Bard’s announcement comes as Microsoft prepares to announce the integration of ChatGPT into its Bing Search engine.
- Although Google invented the ‘Transformer’ technology, it is now regarded as a latecomer to the AI revolution.
- ChatGPT has been dubbed the “End of Google Search” because conversational AI can provide long, essay-style, and sometimes elegant responses to user queries.
- Of course, not all of these are correct, but AI is capable of self-correction and learning from mistakes.
Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/lamda-powered-bard-googles-answer-to-chatgpt-sundar-pichai/videoshow/97697659.cms#:~:text=LaMDA%20powered%20Bard%2C%20Google's%20answer%20to%20ChatGPT%3A%20Sundar%20Pichai,-ET%20Online%20%7C%2007&text=Google%20has%20announced%20Bard%2C%20a,progress%20during%20an%20earnings%20call.