Google to integrate AI into the search engine; expects “Bard” to surpass ChatGPT.

With “Bard,” a conversational service ostensibly designed to challenge the success of the ChatGPT tool supported by Microsoft, Google is bracing for a war of wits in the realm of artificial intelligence.

According to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Bard will initially be accessible only to a select set of “trusted testers” before being broadly disseminated later this year.

A child should be able to understand the difficult concepts discussed by Google’s chatbot when it comes to topics like space discoveries. Additionally, it states that the service will carry out other, more routine duties like offering party planning advice or lunch suggestions based on the leftovers in a refrigerator. Pichai left it unclear in his article whether Bard, named after the playwright who allegedly served as inspiration for the service’s moniker, will be able to produce writing in the manner of William Shakespeare.

“Bard can serve as a creative outlet and a springboard for curiosity,” Pichai penned

Less than two weeks after Microsoft revealed it was investing billions of dollars in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based company that makes ChatGPT and other tools that can create new visuals and understandable text, Google confirmed the existence of Bard.

The pressure on Google to prove that it can keep up in a field of technology that many analysts believe will be as transformative as personal computers, the internet, and smartphones have been at various stages over the past 40 years has increased with Microsoft’s decision to up the ante on a $1 billion investment that it previously made in OpenAI in 2019.

A group of Google workers working on AI technology, according to a report by CNBC last week, “has been urged to prioritize working on a response to ChatGPT.” Bard was a service that was being developed under the “Atlas” project by Google as part of its “code red” initiative to compete with ChatGPT, which has gained tens of millions of users since its release to the public late last year while also raising questions in educational institutions about its capability to write entire essays for students.

For the past six years, Pichai has emphasized the significance of artificial intelligence, and one of its most obvious outcomes will materialize in 2021 as part of a system dubbed “Language Model for Dialogue Applications,” or LaMDA. LaMDA will be used to power Bard.

To help its billion users with their more complex questions, Google also intends to start implementing LaMDA and other advances in artificial intelligence into its powerful search engine. Pichai said the AI techniques would be integrated into Google’s search in the near future without giving a particular timeframe.

Google revealed last week that it is investing in and cooperating with Anthropic, an AI firm run by some former OpenAI leaders, as another indication of its growing dedication to the industry. Anthropic has a purpose focused on AI safety and has developed its own AI chatbot named Claude.