Google announced the launch of Bard, an experimental conversational AI service, on February 6. Bard is powered by Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA).
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, made the announcement in a statement.
In order to assist in providing answers to queries, Google has described Bard as a “conversational AI service” that blends the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the strength, intelligence, and creativity of its massive language models. Bard employs web resources, much like ChapGPT, to produce fresh, superior solutions.
Following the release of OpenAI’s long-form question-answering AI, ChatGPT, which conversely responds to complicated inquiries, this announcement has been eagerly awaited.
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said AI has become a focus for the firm during the past six years when announcing the release of Bard during the company’s earnings call.
He outlined Google’s strategy for creating Bard and pointed out that the firm has always included AI as one of its goals.
“Two years ago, we unveiled next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short). We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard.
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.
“Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, helping you to explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills,” Pichai said.
He disclosed expressed confidence that AI is the most insightful technology the company is working on at the moment.
He said, “Whether it’s helping doctors detect diseases earlier or enabling people to access information in their language, AI helps people, businesses, and communities unlock their potential. And it opens up new opportunities that could significantly improve billions of lives.
That’s why we re-oriented the company around AI six years ago, and why we see it as the most important way we can deliver on our mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
