The online research leader launched Bard, a conversational robot capable of answering questions or obeying instructions by producing text, and which will be integrated into its search engine.
by Alexandre Piquard
Monday, February 6, Google unveiled its response to Chatgpt, the conversational robot that has been a sensation for a few weeks with its texts imitating human syntax. The online research leader made this surprise announcement two days before a conference already scheduled on Wednesday on his artificial intelligence strategy (AI). Coincidence of the calendar, we learned a few hours later that the Chatgpt creator, Openai, would give this Tuesday a press conference to explain his partnership with the digital giant and rival of Google, Microsoft…
This effervescence shows the importance that large AI web companies now. “This is the start of an arms race, comments in a Dan Ives note, financial analyst at Wedbush Securities. Despite recent layoffs in the Tech sector, we expect to see billions of dollars invested in The artificial intelligence industry in the twelve to eighteen months, to make the potential of technologies like Chatgpt accessible to Internet users and businesses. “
Concretely, Google launched Bard on Monday, a conversational robot capable, like Chatgpt, to answer questions or obey instructions by producing text. This promises to offer information “updated” from the web, unlike Chatgpt, whose knowledge stops in 2021. But Bard will not be available in free access before “a few weeks”, after a phase of Essay by “trust testers”.
present as a pioneer
Google already announces its integration into its powerful search engine: if a surfer asks Google: “Between the piano and the guitar, which is the easiest to learn, and what is the time necessary for everyone’s practice ? “, He can read some reply paragraphs produced by the robot, then he will find below the classic links to web pages.
Faced with the small company of San Francisco Openai, at the heart of the media echo around the rise of artificial intelligence in recent months, Google is committed to presenting itself as a pioneer in the field. Bard is based on Lamda, a conversational robot developed in 2021, she writes. Google also reminds us of being the origin of transforming, the technology which, in 2017, launched the new wave of large language models like GPT-3 of Openai, on which Chatgpt.
The Mountain View group also has its own software capable of generating images from text, baptized Imagen and competitor of Dall-E of Openai. The online research giant has long worked on tracks of improving its engine thanks to AI, mixing conversations, images or videos, as well as translation. Finally, Google recalls having, as early as 2014, bought the deepmind nugget, which has just announced for 2023 Sparrow… another conversational robot.
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