The AI wars are heating up.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this on Monday Bard announced, a search engine powered by AI that provides answers to queries in coherent sentences. It is a competitor to ChatGPT – a generative AI tool and chatbot.
“Bard seeks to combine the broad knowledge of the world with the power, intelligence and creativity of our great language models,” Pichai wrote in the announcement.
The product will be available to the general public in the “coming weeks” and will be used by “trusted testers” until then.
Then, at a press conference on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it has partnered with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, to integrate the technology into its Bing search engine. according to Bloomberg.
Instead of a traditional search engine experience (searching for a query and being presented with a plethora of links), things like ChatGPT allow you to ask something like, “What does the planet Venus look like?” and receive a concise, coherent answer.
This could at least make the search superfluous an expert has predictedand poses existential problems for both companies, which both own search engines, Google and Microsoft’s Bing.
Google laundry Reportedly shocked by the public furor surrounding the generative AI tool ChatGPT, and all urged Microsoft steps in and is reportedly investing $10 billion in OpenAI.
Generative AI means you can ask the robot, and in this case ChatGPT, and generate cohesive answers based on essays about Hamlet to a novel to passing a medical licensing exam (according to a preliminary study) – which the academia to one panic.
Google developed Bard, which was previously known internally as LaMDA, but hadn’t made it public. Pichai reportedly said at an internal meeting in December that the company had greater “reputational risk” and needed to behave “more conservatively than a small startup.”
But ChatGPT turned out to be some kind of gadfly. Internally it was called a “code red” for the company, per The New York Times.
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Google’s Bard tool, which “grabs information from the Internet to provide fresh, high-quality answers,” does things like explain new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope NASA telescope to a 9-year-old or list the best football players in a certain position, the company wrote in the blog post.
Microsoft’s tool is currently available in preview mode with limited query options — and a waiting list for the full version, according to Bloomberg. In the preview versionyou can do things like ask to help plan a menu or write one rhyming poem.
The company is planning integrations with its Bing search engine and its Edge browser, the outlet said.
“This technology will reshape virtually every software category,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the press conference, per Bloomberg.