Google has introduced Bard, an AI competitor to ChatGPT

February 20, 2023

The battle for the best artificial intelligence has been going on for decades, but it was only a few months ago that it came to the attention of a wider audience. Last week, Google unveiled Bard, an artificial intelligence competitor to ChatGPT created in collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft.

Bard is an experimental conversational artificial intelligence that can answer people's questions and start a conversation. In the first phase, the software will be tested by a small circle of trusted testers, and in a few weeks, Google expects to open Bard to the public. How powerful and technically sound artificial intelligence Google has created.

Google's AI makes people curious, which is largely helped by the Internet - so we can assume that Bard will be more certain about the news that happened a little while ago, because that is one of the main drawbacks of ChatGPT. "Bard helps people discover their creative talents and develop their curiosity.

It should also be said that there was nothing revolutionary about ChatGPT's technology - it simply became the first artificial intelligence that people met en masse, all over the world. Accordingly, there have been conversations about using ChatGPT in scientific research and teaching, and some have talked about banning it altogether.

We must mention one of Google's competitors, Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates, which is one of the strategic investors of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT. Microsoft will use this collaboration to its advantage – ChatGPT is planned to be integrated as a search engine in Bing, which the confirmation (or vice versa) images appeared on the Internet last week, as well as in other applications, including the office suite.

Although everyone is talking about ChatGPT today, Google's capabilities in this regard are no less interesting and exciting. The fact alone is worth it that the transformative, or if you like, transformative technology that ChatGPT uses was created by Google and described in a scientific study published in 2017. Google was also developing this technology and created a human language model called LaMDA, which is the basis of Bard today.

In general, Google has been developing artificial intelligence projects since its inception, but unlike OpenAI, this or that Google project is not publicly available. One of the main limitations of this approach is that large-scale conversational AI models often do not take into account the social conventions that exist in societies, and as a result, spread toxic content, misinformation and hate speech.

However, it seems that Google is planning to solve this problem as well. As Sundar Pichai writes, the tech giant will use both tester feedback and internal testing results to develop Bard into a high-quality artificial intelligence that won't promote the spread of misinformation.

In conclusion, we must also say that Google does not stop here and emphasizes that artificial intelligence as such, which the company has been developing for decades, will be integrated into various Google products, including the search engine. This trend itself is not new, and it is certainly not related to the sudden appearance of ChatGPT, because in recent years, more and more often, in addition to throwing out links, which Google's search engine did in the early stages of development, it also tries to answer specific questions.