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Will Google with Bard defeat Microsoft’s ChatGpt? Difficult, that’s why

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Will Google with Bard defeat Microsoft's ChatGpt? Difficult, that's why

As expected, the Google I/O 2023 had Bard as the main protagonist, but the impression is that ChatGpt remains a difficult opponent to defeat and Sundar Pichai's colossus is behind in the AI ​​field…

Never before has the event that Mountain View dedicates to developers been awaited by the general public as this year. Yesterday's Google I/O, held at the Shoreline Amphitheater, not far from the headquarters of the Californian giant, with the participation of over 243,000 developers, of which 86% connected from 191 countries around the world, unveiled the counter-offensive against ChatGpt, the AI ​​that Microsoft snapped up early.

THE STAGE OF GOOGLE I/O ONLY FOR BARD

As is known, among the many imaginable uses, the House of Redmond has in the meantime decided to exploit the intelligent algorithm to revive its Bing and try to steal the role of marketplace on the Web from Google. Hence, in fact, a Google I /O awaited by developers, investors, but also simple enthusiasts, in the now established belief that not the metaverse but AI will forever revolutionize the Internet and the way users approach it.

GOOGLE REMAINS GOOGLE, BUT IT UNDERSTANDS BETTER

The Mountain View giant has clarified that Google will remain so, but the search will be expanded thanks to the ability to understand the algorithm. In the example given during Google I/O 2023, the search engine powered by Bard was asked a somewhat more difficult question than usual, such as this: "For a family with children under 3 and a dog is Bryce Canyon or Arches better?”, which are two well-known national parks in the United States. And the search engine, in a few moments, detailed the answers.

More than the example, of course, it is interesting to note how AI in the future will make it possible to dialogue with Google as if one were talking to another human being and still have exhaustive answers that are the result of reasoning and not just a trawl of all the more related results, sorted by the number of clicks obtained from the sources.

BARD NEWS AT GOOGLE I/O

And then various innovations were disclosed that will end up enhancing the generative AI in development in Mountain View, which in fact comes out of the beta phase. First of all, announced the update of the linguistic model with PaLM 2 in order to guarantee better performances and more precise answers. Bard will also be able to complete answers with pictures, not just plain text. Images that Google's generative AI will be able to read: the user can therefore ask him to detail them with captions or descriptions.

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Support for Adobe Firefly will finally become available in the coming months, which will allow you to generate images using artificial intelligence. Bard will then be able to export texts to send what is prepared by the algorithm directly to Gmail or the equivalent of Microsoft Word, while among the new capabilities there is the possibility of analyzing strings of code, debugging or describing blocks of code in more than 20 languages. A novelty that will worry developers above all, but which we will refer to subsequent insights on the balance between the development of AI and the employment issue.

CHATGPT ESCAPE TO THE FINISH?

We talked about Adobe Firefly support. Google has emphasized that, like Chrome, its generative AI will also enjoy the support of third parties (in short, tools) and will soon be able to connect to Google apps or services on the web. But nothing that ChatGPT (which has been discovered to cost OpenAI 700,000 dollars a day ) doesn't already do. In short, although Bard is growing a lot, the feeling is that it only continues to pursue OpenAi's AI, without being able to dictate the line.

Proof of this is the fact that Bard becomes accessible in over 180 countries of the world, but in fact only in English, even if from Mountain View they underline that it can already be used in Japanese and Korean and "soon we will be able to support the 40 most widely spoken languages ​​in the world". Too little, considering the widespread diffusion of ChatGpt.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/google-con-bard-sconfiggera-chatgpt-di-microsoft-difficile-ecco-perche/ on Thu, 11 May 2023 06:11:37 +0000.