"Google Bard" Google Has Finally Unveiled Its Chat GPT Rival

Google has finally nabbed and announced a ChatGPT competitor called Bard – an experimental conversational AI service that will be released to the public in the coming weeks.

Like ChatGPT, the chatbot promises to answer complex questions and teach you in-depth topics in a conversational style. But the main difference with ChatGPT for now is that Bard is connected to the internet, so it can give you what Google claims(opens in a new tab) are fresh and high quality answers.

Google’s Bard is powered by LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications). Like ChatGPT, it is a type of machine learning called a big language model that has been trained on a huge dataset and is able to understand human language as it is written.

Google says Bard will be open to “trust testers” starting today, but the public will be able to start using it in the coming weeks. Exactly how we’ll access Bard in these early stages is unclear, but Google says its AI-powered capabilities will “be starting to roll out Google Search soon.”

What exactly will Google’s Bard do for you, and how will it compare to ChatGPT, which Microsoft seems to integrate with its own Bing search engine? Here’s everything you need to know about it.

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What is Google Bard?

Like ChatGPT, Bard is a chatbot based on deep learning algorithms called “big language models”, in this case one called LaMDA.

Initially, Bard will appear on a “lite model version” of LaMDA. Google says this will allow the chatbot to scale to more people, as this “much smaller model requires much less processing power.”

Initially, Bard is in a testing phase where Google combines our external feedback with its own internal testing. Indeed, for all their benefits, chatbots have also shown a propensity for negative traits that include everything from biases to empowering cyberattacks.

Opening up chatbots to public testing has big benefits that Google says it’s “excited about,” but also risks that explain why the search giant was so cautious about releasing Bard into the wild. However, the meteoric rise of ChatGPT apparently forced itself and accelerated Bard’s public launch.

So far, Google has been a little vague about Bard’s capabilities, but it’s provided some examples of what it can do. In short, Bard is an evolution of next-gen Google search that could transform the way we use search engines and find information on the web.

Google says Bard can be “an outlet for creativity” or “a launch pad for curiosity”, helping you explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old or learn more on the best strikers in football right now, then get drills to improve your skills”.