As many believe ChatGPT is the end of Google searches, Google introduces Bard. Read to know more about the new developments in AI and search engines.
What is Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT?
Google gives its official answer to the threat and challenge posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Microsoft-backed AI bot may bring an end to Google search as we know it with its detailed answers. The search giant, in a blog post, confirmed to start public testing for Bard, Google’s new AI. It will be based on the company’s LaMDA or Language Model for Dialogue Application. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in the blog post explained the new features coming to Google Search. So far LaMDA was available to limited testers on the firm’s AI test Kitchen app.
According to Pichai, Bard is an “experimental conversational AI service” and Google is “opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks”. Additionally, as per the blog post, Bard “draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses”. Hence, it will give short, conversational, and essay-style in-depth answers similar to ChatGPT. Users can ask it “to explain discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills”.
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Bard is out on a limited at the moment and Google is looking for feedback. It is looking for external feedback in addition to “internal testing to make sure Bard’s responses meet a high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information”. The timing of the announcement is critical as Microsoft is preparing to announce integrating ChatGPT with its Bing Search engine. Microsoft shared the announcement in a surprise event, one day ahead of Google’s event.
“Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web: whether that’s seeking out additional perspectives, like blogs from people who play both piano and guitar, or going deeper on a related topic, like steps to get started as a beginner,” stated Google’s blog post.