Google’s Bard could be getting an upgrade soon, says CEO Sundar Pichai

bard of google was introduced last month. Conversational chatbots aim to counter the popularity of chatgpt Tools supported by Microsoft. However, the announcement was labeled ‘rushed’ and ‘failed’ by Google employees themselves.

Responding to criticisms of the product, Pichai said, “We clearly have more capable models. We will be upgrading the Bard to some of our more capable PaLM models, which will bring more capabilities.” He said the process would start next week.

During the interview, Pichai also confirmed that Google will not launch a more capable model before ascertaining how it can handle it. To recall, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. lost $100 billion in market value shortly after Bard inadvertently disclosed false information in a promotional video.

The CEO also said that the company’s AI tool is currently running on a ‘lightweight and efficient version of LaMDA’ language model. He stated that the reason for limiting Bard’s capabilities was a sense of caution within Google. He also said he has discussed the AI ​​bot with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and hasn’t released a ‘code-red’ to scrape development.

In related news, Google has denied allegations that its recently launched generative AI-based chatbot, Bard, has been trained on data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Allegedly, Google used data from a website called ShareGPT, which keeps records of users’ interactions with ChatGPT.

According to a report published in The Information, Google engineer Jacob Devlin along with other top executives informed Google CEO Sundar Pichai that Bard’s machine learning model was being trained using ChatGPT. They also warned the company that the move would violate OpenAI’s terms of service as well as make Bard’s answers sound similar to ChatGPT.