Following the surge in usage of a search engine supported by Microsoft’s competitor, Google will integrate new technology into its own search engine
In response to the enormous success of ChatGPT, supported by Microsoft, Google is launching its own AI chatbot named Bard. Additionally, the technology behind Bard will be integrated into the Google search engine, allowing it to provide succinct answers to complicated queries. Google plans to release Bard to a group of specialized product testers on Monday, followed by a wider public release in the upcoming weeks. Similar to ChatGPT, Bard uses a large language model called LaMDA to function.
Neural networks, like LaMDA and ChatGPT, are large language AI models that replicate the brain’s architecture in a computer. They learn to generate responses to text prompts by ingesting huge amounts of internet text. ChatGPT’s release in November made it a hit, generating credible content like academic essays, poems, and job applications, amassing 100 million users according to analysts.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted Bard’s capacity to provide responses based on current information. In its announcement, Google provided an instance of Bard responding to a request for help explaining recent findings from the James Webb space telescope to a child. Bard can also learn about the most proficient football strikers at present and suggest training drills to replicate the techniques of top players.
Google announced that it will integrate its latest AI technologies, including LaMDA, PaLM, Imagen, and MusicLM, into its search engine. Sundar Pichai, the company’s CEO, explained that the new AI-powered features will transform complex information and diverse perspectives into “digestible” formats. Pichai gave an example of asking Google which musical instrument, the guitar or the piano, is easier to learn. Instead of providing a link to a single blog post, the search engine will present a conversation-style response at the top of the page, summarizing different viewpoints on the topic. The response will explain that some people believe the piano is easier to learn, while others argue that the guitar is more accessible for beginners.
Google plans to provide access to LaMDA’s technology to developers, creators, and businesses so that they can build applications that use Google’s AI technology. LaMDA gained attention in the past year when a Google engineer claimed that it was “sentient,” but Google dismissed the claims as baseless and terminated the engineer’s employment. LaMDA stands for “language model for dialogue applications.”
As Microsoft, a major supporter of ChatGPT, is gearing up to launch more products utilizing the technology behind the chatbot, Google’s announcement followed suit. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI based in San Francisco, received a substantial investment from Microsoft recently. Users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine claimed to have seen a product preview over the weekend, where they could ask it questions of up to 1,000 characters, and the answers would cite sources. Microsoft is expected to announce further details about utilizing ChatGPT in its products at a press conference on Tuesday.
