Google Bard is a new chatbot tool developed in response to competitor artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT. It is intended to simulate human conversations and employs a combination of natural language processing and machine learning to provide realistic and helpful responses to questions you may pose.
Such tools could be especially useful for smaller businesses that want to provide natural language support to their customers without hiring large teams of support personnel, or for supplementing Google's own search tools.
Bard can be integrated into websites, messaging platforms, desktop and mobile applications, and a variety of digital systems. At the very least, it will be. Outside of a limited beta test run, it is not widely available; at least not yet.
Google Bard is the company's answer to ChatGPT. It's an AI chatbot that performs many of the same functions as ChatGPT. Still, it's intended to eventually supplement Google's own search tools (much like Bing is doing with ChatGPT) as well as provide automated support and human-like interaction for businesses.
It's been in the works for a while and employs LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) technology. It is based on Google's Transformer neural network architecture, which has also served as the foundation for other AI generative tools such as ChatGPT's GPT-3 language model.
What was the error in Google Bard's question?
Google Bard, which was unveiled for the first time on February 6, 2023, got off to a rocky start when it made a mistake in answering a question about the James Webb Space Telescope's recent discoveries. It claimed to be the first to photograph an exoplanet outside of our solar system, but this occurred many years earlier. The fact that Google Bard displayed this incorrect information with such confidence drew harsh criticism, drawing parallels with some of ChatGPT's flaws. In response, Google's stock price dropped several points.
At the time of writing, Google Bard was only available to a small group of beta testers, but a wider launch is anticipated in the coming weeks and months. Following the success of ChatGPT, CEO Sundar Pichai initially accelerated the development of Google Bard in early 2022. With the continued positive press coverage ChatGPT has received in 2023, this is only likely to have continued.
For the time being, if you are not one of the coveted Bard beta testers, you'll have to play the waiting game until we hear more from Google.
Google Bard and ChatGPT
Google Bard and ChatGPT both create chatbots using natural language models and machine learning, but each has a unique set of features. ChatGPT is entirely based on data that was mostly collected up until 2021 at the time of writing, whereas Google Bard has the possibility to use up-to-date information for its responses. ChatGPT focuses on conversational questions and answers, but it is now being used in Bing's search results to answer more conversational searches as well. Google Bard will be used in the same way, but only to supplement Google.
Both chatbots use language models that are slightly different. Google Bard is built on LaMBDA, whereas ChatGPT is built on GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). ChatGPT also has a plagiarism detector, which Google Bard currently does not, as far as we know.
ChatGPT is also freely available to try out, whereas Google Bard is only available to beta testers.
Google Bard is already accessible to a select group of Google beta testers in a limited form. There is no set timetable for its wider implementation. However, Google SEO Sundar Pichai stated in his address on the launch of Google Bard that we would soon see Google Bard leveraged to enhance Google Search, so we may see Bard more widely available in the coming weeks.