Bard, how the rival of ChatGpt developed by Google will work

Google it has no intention of letting Microsoft, or anyone else, question its dominance of online search without a fight. On Monday, February 6, the company announced that “in the next weeks” will throw a called chatbot Bard. The new tool appears to be a answer to ChatGptthe artificial intelligence (Ai) chatbot developed by the startup OpenAi with funding from Microsoft that has experienced enormous popularity in recent months.

In a post posted on the Google blog the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai wrote that Bard is already available for “trusted testers” and was designed to put the “knowledge of the world” behind a conversational interface. The new chatbot uses a smaller version of a powerful model called Ai LaMdaThat Google had first unveiled in May 2021 and which is based on a technology similar to that of ChatGpt. According to the giant, this will allow the chatbot to be made available to a greater number of users and to collect feedback to help solve problems related to the quality and accuracy of the answers.

Both Google and OpenAi base their bots on text-generation software that, while eloquent, is prone to produce falsehoods and can replicate objectionable language that he finds online. The need to mitigate these flaws, coupled with the difficulty of updating these types of software with new information, challenges hopes of building effective and profitable new products based on the technology, as well as the possibility that chatbots reinvent web search.

What we know about Bard

While he hasn’t announced any plans to integrate Bard into Google’s search function — which is the foundation of the company’s bottom line — Pichai did demonstrate an innovative, if conservative, use of the AI ​​technology powering the company’s new chatbot, which has the purpose of improve traditional searches. In the case of questions for which there is no single answer, Google will in fact be able to synthesize an answer that reflects differing opinions.

For example, to the question “Is it easier to learn piano or guitar?“, the answer will be “Some say piano is easier to learn because finger and hand movements are more natural… Others say it’s easier to learn chords on guitar“. Pichai also let it be known that Google has plans to make the technology behind Bard available to developers through an API – like OpenAi is doing with ChatGpt – but didn’t provide a timeline.

Threat to Google’s dominance

The enthusiasm inspired by ChatGpt has generated speculation on the possibility that, after years, Google is for the first time to deal with a credible threat to its supremacy in the web search industry. February 7th Microsoftwhich recently has invested approximately $10 billion in OpenAi, will hold an event open to the press dedicated to ChatGpt, on the occasion of which, according to rumors, it could present new features for the company’s search engine, Bing. Shortly after Google’s announcement, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAi, ha tweeted a photo with Satya Nadella, his counterpart from Microsoft.

After being quietly launched by OpenAi last November, ChatGpt has become a viral phenomenon. Its ability to answer complex questions in a seemingly clear and coherent way has made many users dream of the imminent arrival of a revolution in the world of education, business and everyday life. However, some AI experts are more cautious, since the tool is unable to understand the information it is provided and has a tendency to invent facts.