Google parent company Alphabet announced that it will launch a chatbot service and more AI projects for its search engine and developers, also known as “Bard” (which was opened to some testers this Monday and will be open to the public in the coming weeks), in response to a new wave of computing led by Microsoft. The new wave of computing led by Microsoft.
As opposed to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which Pichai said duplicates the latest information on the Internet, and ChatGPT’s knowledge only as of 2021, “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our artificial intelligence.
It’s worth noting that Microsoft also said it plans to release its own AI product on Tuesday, local time.
ChatGPT, currently an instant industry sensation, is a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI that Google believes could disrupt the way consumers search for information, which is one of the biggest challenges for the company’s most basic business, and indeed other AI projects.
In a blog post, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said his company is planning to launch a conversational AI service called Bard to test user feedback and will release it publicly in the coming weeks.
He also said Google plans to add AI capabilities to its search engine to include more material for complex queries, such as “which is easier, learning guitar or piano”; for questions with clear answers, Google will provide text that exists elsewhere on the Web. Microsoft has been doing this a few days ago.
For now, Google has not revealed the timing of this update to support Bard search, nor has it explained how the company will enhance its service. Microsoft is already doing the same thing for Bing, and will at least embed OpenAI functionality into it, which Google is not expected to stray too far from.
As for Microsoft, details will be announced at a press conference on Tuesday, when its CEO Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the event and brief the press on its unspecified developments, and Microsoft will also announce the integration of its AI into all its products.
