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All about Bard, Google’s anti ChatGpt

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All about Bard, Google's anti ChatGpt

Google is launching Bard, an AI-powered chatbot prototype that will compete with ChatGpt. At the moment it will only be tested by a limited group but in the coming weeks it will be available to the public

To ChatGpt Google replies with Bard.

The Mountain View giant officially enters the field of chatbots that respond and contextualize via the web, announcing its alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, confirming last week's CNBC rumors.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a blog post yesterday that Bard will be open to "trusted testers" starting Monday, with plans to make it available to the public "in the coming weeks."

AI chatbots are designed to answer questions and find information. ChatGPT is the best known example. They use what is on the internet as a huge database of knowledge, although there are concerns that this could also include offensive material and disinformation.

The announcement comes as Google's flagship product, online search, is believed to be facing its most significant risk in years. Just think of Microsoft investing a whopping $10 billion in OpenAI . The company is said to be integrating ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and other products into its office software suite.

According to media reports, the immense attention on the ChatGPT phenomenon has prompted Google's top management to declare a "code red" situation for its search activity. And here comes the launch of Bard. Not only that, Pichai added that AI-powered tools will soon start rolling out to Google's flagship search tool.

All the details.

WHAT GOOGLE BARD WILL DO

In the words of the Google CEO himself, Bard is an "experimental conversational artificial intelligence service" that will answer user questions and take part in conversations. Its operation is based on LaMDA, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, which made headlines last year for being called "sentient" by one of Google's engineers.

You can ask generic questions but also and above all practical ones, as happens with OpenAI technology. A screenshot encourages users to ask Bard practice questions, such as whether it's easier to learn to play piano or guitar and how much practice it takes.

PRACTICAL EXAMPLES

Pichai writes: “Bard can be an outlet for creativity and a springboard for curiosity, helping you explain new findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old boy, or learn more about soccer's best strikers Right now".

DIFFERENCES WITH CHATGPT

Additionally, Pichai notes that Bard "pulls information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality answers," suggesting that he may be able to answer questions about recent events, something ChatGPT struggles with.

RISKS ON THE HORIZON

If Google moves more in the direction of incorporating an AI chatbot tool into search, it could pose some risks, reports CNN . Because these tools are trained on online data, experts have noted that they have the potential to perpetuate bias and spread disinformation.

While the Google CEO stressed that he wanted Google's AI services to be "bold and responsible," he did not explain how Bard will be prevented from sharing harmful or offensive content.

CHALLENGE OPEN TO CHATGPT

Big G has therefore decided to hurry up with the progress of ChatGPT. It's not clear what different or more Bard will offer, but Google already says it will be available on "multiple platforms", showing it in action on smartphones.

The ultimate purpose of chatbots lies in internet research, experts believe: to replace web link pages with a definitive answer.

On the other hand, last month Microsoft announced its investment of 10 billion dollars in ChatGPT , the chatbot developed by OpenAI which has become a viral phenomenon. And according to The Information , the Redmond giant hopes to roll out a Bing feature that would integrate ChatGPT technology into its search engines to deliver better user results. The new feature by the end of March in a bid to make Bing more competitive with Google.

But “ChatGPT is a template. Google Bard is a service. There is a more concrete corporate trajectory in the latter” Antongiulio Staniscia, Adnkronos Digital Media Specialist comments on Twitter.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/tutto-su-bard-lanti-chatgpt-di-google/ on Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:53:33 +0000.