Google counters rising ChatGPT with its brand new Bard: How it works?

Google's Bard tries to answer users' queries in a conversational way.

New Delhi, Feb 07: Google has come up with yet another product, this time to counter the rising popularity of ChatGPT, a chatbot that has the ability to write specific content.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced in a blog that the company is launching Bard, a conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA. The product is now in the testing phase and will be available to all in the weeks to come.

Before getting to know about Bard, one should also be aware of ChatGPT, which has become a sensation in the last one month. "ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot. The language model can answer questions, and assist you with tasks such as composing emails, essays, and code. Usage is currently open to public free of charge because ChatGPT is in its research and feedback-collection phase," according to ZDnet.

For an instance, if you want to know about the traffic at Silk Board in Bengaluru, just search 'silk board traffic' and you get the below response from the app:

"Silk Board is a major junction and traffic hub in Bangalore, India. It experiences heavy traffic congestion during peak hours, leading to long wait times and delays for commuters. The local authorities are constantly working to improve traffic management in the area. To avoid delays, it's recommended to plan your route and leave early or use alternate modes of transportation."

Likewise, if you search 'teach me basic html', you will get detailed basics of HTML.

So, what does Bard do?
It is expected to function similar to ChatGPT. It will try to answer users' queries in a conversational way.

"Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, helping you to explain new 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," Pichai said in the blog.

He said that the company will "combine external feedback with our own internal testing to make sure Bard's responses meet a high bar for quality, safety and groundedness in real-world information."

How accurate are the results?
The Google's product, like ChatGPT, may give inappropriate or inaccurate and expected to improve with time.

Why this Google Product will be special?
Google has a history of using AI to to improve Search for billions of people. "BERT, one of our first Transformer models, was revolutionary in understanding the intricacies of human language. Two years ago, we introduced MUM, which is 1,000 times more powerful than BERT and has next-level and multi-lingual understanding of information which can pick out key moments in videos and provide critical information, including crisis support, in more languages.

Now, our newest AI technologies - like LaMDA, PaLM, Imagen and MusicLM - are building on this, creating entirely new ways to engage with information, from language and images to video and audio. We're working to bring these latest AI advancements into our products, starting with Search," Pichai added.

It has to be noted that was Google one of the first companies to publish a set of AI Principles.