Google wants to compete with GPT by launching its own Chatbot.

Google is quick to join in on the sudden fervor for conversational AI, fueled by the widespread success of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Bard, the company's new experiment in artificial intelligence, aims to "combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our great language models."

The AI ​​model, service or chatbot, was announced in a blog post by CEO Sundar Pichai. He pointedly points out that Google refocused around AI a few years ago, as well as the fact that the most influential concept (the Transformer) was created by the company's researchers in 2017.

Technology moves fast and big business moves slowly.

While Google published paper after paper trying to figure out how to fit AI into their existing business strategies, OpenAI has focused on making the best models and letting people figure out your own applications.

Google, of course, maintains the most up-to-date record of web content on Earth, and Bard will no doubt use that information to his advantage, but exactly how he processes and packages that information will only become clear once people start using it.

Bard is based on an experimental technology called LaMDA, short for Language Model for

Dialogue Applications, which Google has been testing inside the company and with a limited number of outsiders for several months Google is one of many companies that have been developing and testing a new type of chatbot that can tackle almost any topic that comes its way. OpenAI, a small San Francisco start-up, captured the public's imagination with ChatGPT and began a race to bring this type of technology to a wide range of products.

AI will come to Google Search more directly in the form of several new features “that can help synthesize information for questions where there is no right answer. Soon, you'll see these AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple points of view into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more about the web," the company said in a separate statement.

The result of more than a decade of research at companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta, chatbots represent a massive change in the way computer software is built, used, and operates. They're poised to remake Internet search engines like Google Search and Microsoft Bing, talking digital assistants like Alexa and Siri, and email programs like Gmail and Outlook.

Source: Ny Times/Thech Crunch