- Currently, it is only available to a limited number of testers. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, announced the launch of the conversational AI service Bard. Currently, only “vetted testers” will have access to the tool, while all other users will be able to access it in the “coming weeks”.
- According to the company, the experimental bot Bard combines “extensive knowledge available to the world, as well as the mind and creativity of Google’s language models”. It can be used to understand complex phenomena and scientific discoveries, find sources of inspiration or read about the best attacking players in football and then find ball exercises.
- Bard is based on a “lightened” version of Google’s LaMDA neural network, which requires less computational power and will therefore work better for more users. This will allow Google to collect the necessary feedback on the product and later analyze it along with reviews from internal testers.
- TechCrunch also believes that the company will definitely keep all conversations with the bot to hone its skills.
- Google saw ChatGPT as a threat in late 2022 and declared a “red code” inside the company, directing resources towards the development of its own “ChatGPT answer.” In February 2023, Google co-founder Sergei Brin returned to work on the code: he submitted a request to access the data used to train LaMDA.
- CNBC reported on January 31, 2023, that Google was already testing AI solutions, including a bot called Apprentice Bard. It also invested $300-400 million in the AI startup Anthropic and more than $20 million in a “programmer’s assistant” analog, Copilot.
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