As has already been mentioned several times, it was a matter of time before Google presented its alternative service to ChatGPT. This long-awaited announcement came today with the inauguration of the barda new Artificial Intelligence tool with the seal of Google.
Bard is, for now, a tool in the testing phase and will be tested, starting today, by a selected group of users. However, Google guarantees that in the coming weeks it will place its chatbot available to the public.
Bard is the latest Artificial Intelligence service developed by Google
Bard’s announcement was made by Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, via the company’s official blog. There, the executive gave an introduction to what he considers an important step on his path towards Artificial Intelligence.
Similar to what ChatGPT offers, Bard will be a service to answer user questions. A tool whose main objective is to make life easier for Internet users in their search for credible and assertive information.
As already mentioned, Sundar Pichai views Bard as an “experimental conversational AI service.” Its role is to answer “user questions and participate in conversations.”
If you are familiar with the capabilities of ChatGPT, then Bard will not be new to you. In fact, they will be two services that will directly compete with each other and that will only make both of them better and more impressive.
Sundar Pichai says that the Bard will be able to explain the new discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope to a nine-year-old boy. Or he answers simpler tasks like who are the best strikers in the world of football right now.
Bard will collect information from the Internet
As Google points out, Bard promises to set the standard for creativity and arouse the curiosity of Internet users. To do this, he will combine knowledge of the world with the power, intelligence and creativity of Google’s great linguistic models.
The Bard’s source of information will be the bottomless pit that is the Internet today. In addition to providing you with a wealth of information, it ensures that it will be up to date.
This may be one of its strengths against ChatGPT, since the chatbot of OpenAI shows some difficulty in answering questions about recent events. This way, Bard will provide you with fresh, high-quality answers.
LaMDA is the basis for the development of Bard
To design Bard, Google relied on its Language Model for Dialog Applications (LaMDA). This was introduced about two years ago as a state of the art conversation and language resource.
In a first phase, Bard will be based on a simple LaMDA model that requires less computational power. In this way, it will be accessible to a greater number of users and will be able to receive more comments.
By combining Google’s internal testing with user feedback, the company hopes to meet high standards for quality and reliability. An effort developed with the sole purpose of providing the best and most secure information currently available.