{"id":15319,"date":"2023-02-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad1lu9pexv-staging.wpdns.site\/news-and-resources\/google-retaliates-to-chatgpt\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:18:18","slug":"google-retaliates-to-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incubeta.com\/za\/news-and-resources\/google-retaliates-to-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Retaliates to ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\nBelieved to have been in the pipeline for months, if not years, Bard is a \u2018high quality, safe and grounded\u2019 AI chatbot that can understand, process and respond to human input – drawing on information from the web to provide fresh, conversational and quality responses\u2026 Sounds familiar doesn\u2019t it?<\/span>\n\nIn short Google was beaten to the post by OpenAI going to market with ChatGPT, and they don\u2019t like it. So they responded in a way that only Google can – fast tracking the development of their AI technologies to launch a copycat service that, once accessible to the general public in the coming weeks, will (<\/span>they hope<\/span><\/i>) help them regain market share lost to ChatGPT. Not that ChatGPT has caught on to the existence of its apparent rival\u2026<\/span>\n\n\"\"\n

WTF is Google Bard?<\/b><\/h3>\nDubbed by Google as \u2018an important step\u2019 in their AI journey, Bard is effectively their retaliation chatbot to ChatGPT – an experimental conversational AI service. Bard is a tool that can be used to simplify complex topics by combining the breadth of the world\u2019s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of Google\u2019s large language models.<\/span>\n\nNot yet available outside of testing, Bard is based on similar technology to ChatGPT, using a smaller version of Google\u2019s LaMDA behind a conversational interface.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nAn \u2018outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity\u2019, Bard is, to put it bluntly, Google\u2019s entry into the AI race. A chatbot to rival, and regain market share from OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.\u00a0<\/span>\n

What does the launch of Bard mean?<\/b><\/h3>\nIn short, it means that there\u2019s a big tech race in the Generative AI space – the armageddon of AI if you will. And one that OpenAI is currently winning.<\/span>\n\nFor the first time in a long time, Google is on the backfoot meaning, despite a significant \u2018<\/span>reputational risk<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u2019 they went ahead and invested heavily in their existing AI technology, fast tracking the production of Bard (and other potential solutions) even while <\/span>laying off more than 12,000 employees<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet even indicated that these layoffs were made in a bid to drive the growth of their AI tech:<\/span>\n\n\u201c<\/span>Being constrained in some areas allows us to bet big on others. Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span>\n\nAnd they\u2019re not the only ones. Meta also has their own ChatGPT variant, Blenderbot. First launched in the US in 2022, Blenderbot is the first chatbot that can \u2018<\/span>simultaneously build long-term memory<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u2019 while continually searching the internet for timely information to have \u2018sophisticated conversations on nearly any topic\u2019. Despite debuting before ChatGPT, Blenderbot and Meta received serious criticism upon launch, due to the chatbot’s general incompetence, and its ability to produce racist remarks and conspiracy theories. A far cry from the initial reception that ChatGPT received.<\/span>\n\nThe response wasn\u2019t much better on the launch of their secondary AI platform, Galactica – an AI \u2018fill in the gaps\u2019 word-guessing game trained to respond to natural language. After a mere three days <\/span>Meta was forced to shut down the demo<\/a><\/strong><\/span> after significant criticism and public pressure.<\/span>\n\n

Galactica demo is off line for now.
It's no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it.
Happy? https:\/\/t.co\/K56r2LpvFD<\/a><\/p>— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) November 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>