Google Takes ‘Important Next Step In Our AI Journey’
ChatGPT has been making headlines lately, but now it’s going to have to share that media real estate: On Monday, Google owner Alphabet announced its new chatbot service, Bard, as well as plans to pump more artificial intelligence into its search functions and open up some of its AI products to developers, reports Reuters. In a blog post, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai cheered the “important next step on our AI journey,” describing Bard as an “experimental conversational AI service,” powered by its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA.
Like ChatGPT—a chatbot owned by OpenAI, which has been backed by a multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft—the technology scans the internet to generate content based on shorter input, taking some of the burden for doing so off of human workers. “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models … [drawing] on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses,” Pichai wrote in his post. He also explained how AI could be incorporated into his company’s Google search engine Read More…