Microsoft’s ChatGPT Will Face Off Against Google’s New Chatbot Bard
The San Francisco firm OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, has generated a lot of buzz for its capacity to write essays, poems, or lines of code in response to user input in a matter of seconds.
Google announced on Monday that it will launch a conversational chatbot called Bard, setting up a battle between artificial intelligence (AI) heavyweights Google and Microsoft. Microsoft has invested billions in the makers of ChatGPT, the wildly successful language app that convincingly imitates human writing.
The San Francisco firm OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can generate essays, poems, or computer code in response to commands in a matter of seconds, has caused a sensation and aroused broad concerns about cheating or the extinction of entire professions.
Microsoft last month stated that it was supporting OpenAI and that it had started integrating ChatGPT features into its Teams platform. It is anticipated that Microsoft will also adapt the app to work with its Office suite and Bing search engine.
The inclusion in Bing shifted attention to Google and rumors that the company’s globally dominant search engine would experience unprecedented competition from an AI-powered rival.
According to media accounts, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT was deemed a “code red” threat at Google, and the company’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who left several years ago, were invited back to come up with ideas and expedite a response.
The bad results reported last week by Alphabet, the company that owns Google, which fell short of market forecasts, increased the pressure to act. In order to focus more on AI projects, the corporation stated last month that it was cutting off 12,000 employees.
In yet another indication that the two tech behemoths will compete over the technology, also known as generative AI, Google’s announcement came on the eve of a launch event for AI technology by Microsoft.
“Generative AI is a game changer and much like the development of the internet drowned the networking giants that came before (AOL, CompuServe, etc.), it has the ability to disrupt the competitive dynamic for search and information,” said independent tech analyst Rob Enderle.
Google still relies heavily on the fact that their search engine is the most popular; but this might change that, consigning them to the annals of history, the analyst continued.
Responses of a top quality.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a blog post on Monday that Bard, Google’s conversational AI, would be put through testing before being more freely accessible “in the coming weeks.”
Google’s Bard has been in development for a number of years and is based on LaMDA, the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications technology.
According to Pichai, “Bard aspires to combine the depth of human knowledge with the strength, humour, and inventiveness of our massive language models.”
He went on to say that the software “draws on information from the web to produce new, high-quality responses,” suggesting that it would provide responses that were current, something ChatGPT is unable to achieve.
Before the advent of ChatGPT, which was made available in late November, Google had been hesitant to introduce its own language-based AI out of concern about the reputational risk of making a premature release.
Researchers have shown that the system can spew out false information or rubbish on a potentially huge scale utilising language models similar to Bard or ChatGPT.
In November, Meta, the owner of Facebook, was compelled to remove the release of its own massive language model called Galactica after three days because users immediately began sharing its biassed and inaccurate results on social media.
Pichai emphasised that Bard’s responses would “reach a high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real world knowledge.”
In order to save computer power and reach a wider audience, Bard would source its responses from a constrained version of its underlying language model, similar to ChatGPT.
Google also said that customers would soon see AI-powered improvements in its search engine, which is crucial for its impending battle with Microsoft.
According to Pichai, modern solutions would “distil complex facts and different opinions into easily digestible formats.”
According to Thierry Poibeau of the CNRS research centre in Paris, search engines strengthened by generative AI “will deliver structured responses to inquiries and no longer links.”
However, Poibeau noted that bots like ChatGPT “can give erroneous responses, which is frustrating for a search engine.”