Reuters- Alphabet Inc and rival Microsoft are locked in a race to rule the internet zeitgeist after the Google owner Bard launched a new bard in response to AI chatbot sensation ChatGPT.
Just minutes after Google announced its launch of Bard on Monday, Microsoft announced that it would hold an event at its Redmond headquarters in order to reveal its AI, setting the stage for the next Chrome-versus- Internet Explorer or Gmail-versus- Hotmail.
Since it opened for public use last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT has taken the tech world by storm as people around the world have creative prompts that the conversational chatbot uses to create everything from poems and novels to jokes and film scripts.
The artificial intelligence service could change how consumers search for information or create content on command, and free up time for white-collar workers.
The services that Google's Bard and ChatGPT would offer are similar. Users will have to key in a question, a request or give a prompt to receive a human-like response.
Microsoft and Google intend to integrate AI tools into their search services, which are Bing and Google Search, which account for a lot of revenue.
Both technologies can distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to digest formats, but the most apparent difference is Bard's ability to include recent events in the responses.
It is not clear how the two services will differ, but it is certain that Alphabet's Bard will have access to more data.
Bard draws on information from the internet, while ChatGPT has access to data until 2021.
Bard is based on LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. A company engineer called the AI generated text with such skill that a company engineer called it sentient, a claim the technology giant and scientists widely dismissed.
OpenAI's GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, was first released in 2020, and the GPT 3.5 series of language models that finished training in early 2022 is the backbone of ChatGPT.
Open AI says that ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post that the conversational AI service will be widely available in the coming weeks.
In the two months after ChatGPT's launch, a number of tech companies have doubled down on generative AI technology, while a number of startups are working on their own projects.
Baidu, China's answer to Google, is the latest company to join the frenzy. Its AI is called Ernie.