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TL;DR
- Google’s response to the popularity of chat bot ChatGPT is officially known as Google Bard.
- Bard is an “experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA.”
- A select group of testers can access the system today, with a public rollout coming soon.
The success of ChatGPT has been overwhelming. The AI-powered chatbot already has 100 million users, making it one of the fastest-growing services ever, if not the fastest. It was only a matter of time before Google threw its hat into the ring on this one.
Today, the company officially unveiled Google Bard. This is also an AI-powered chat service very similar to ChatGPT. However, this system is powered by LaMDA — which stands for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications.” Google unveiled LaMDA at Google I/O 2021.
Specifically, Bard is using a smaller, lightweight version of the full LaMDA tool. However, the result is the same: a human inputs a request in a conversational style, and Bard returns back an intelligent response using information drawn from the internet. The example Google uses in its announcement post is asking for simple explanations about the James Webb Space Telescope for a father to tell his 9-year-old child.
Today, Google is opening Bard up to a select group of “trusted testers.” Google would like to push out a public version in the coming weeks, but wasn’t more specific than that.
This is a developing story and will be updated…
