Alphabet and rival Microsoft are locked in the race to rule the internet age once again after the Google owner launched “Bard” in response to AI chatbot sensation ChatGPT.
Just minutes after Google announced the launch of Bard on Monday, Microsoft said it would hold an event at its Redmond headquarters to reveal its own AI, which could potentially be the next Chrome-vs-Internet Explorer. Or will set the stage for Gmail-vs-Hotmail.
Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the tech world by storm since it opened up for public use last year, as people around the world see signs that conversational chatbots can create content ranging from poems and novels to jokes and film content. Uses to build everything up to script.
Artificial intelligence services could change how consumers search for information or create content on command and free up time for white-collar workers.
Here are some of the major differences between Bard and ChatGPT:
what do they do?
The services offered by Google’s Bard and ChatGPT are similar. Users have to put in a question, a request or a prompt to get a human-like response.
Microsoft and Google plan to embed AI tools to enhance their search services Bing and Google Search, which drive a huge chunk of revenue.
How are they different?
Both technologies can deliver complex information and multiple perspectives in easily digestible formats, but the most obvious difference is Bard’s ability to incorporate recent events into responses.
While it’s not immediately clear how the two services will differ, it is certain that Alphabet’s Bard will have access to more data.
Bard receives information from the Internet, while ChatGPT has access to the data until 2021.
LAMDA vs GPT
Bard is based on LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogic Applications. The AI generated text with such skill that last year an engineer at the company called it sentient, a claim widely rejected by technology giants and scientists.
OpenAI’s GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, first released in 2020, and the GPT 3.5 series of language models, which finished training in early 2022, form the backbone of ChatGPT.
“ChatGPT sometimes writes answers that sound believable but are incorrect or nonsensical,” Open AI said in a blog post.
When will Bard be available?
While OpenAI made a free research preview of ChatGPT available for public use on November 30 last year, Bard is currently only open to a select group of testers.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post that the conversational AI service will be made widely available in the coming weeks.
Are there other options?
In the two months since ChatGPT launched, several tech companies have doubled down on generative AI technology, while several startups are independently working on their own projects.
Baidu, China’s answer to Google, is the latest company to join the craze. Its AI is called Ernie.
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