A new rivalry is brewing in the world of AI developments. Google’s freshly updated AI chatbot, Bard, is giving OpenAI’s ChatGPT a run for its money, threatening to topple its hegemony.
On May 10, Google held its annual Google I/O conference and made Bard accessible to the world, introducing a series of upgrades aimed at keeping it ahead of the curve. Users can access Bard for free, and it’s now available in over 180 countries.
Google introduced Bard in February, but it was not too impressive. After hallucinating live and falsely claiming that the James Webb Space Telescope took the very first pictures of “exoplanets,” people quickly pointed out its flaws, Google’s stock sank, and its parent company Alphabet lost $100 billion.
That version of Bard was trained on a large language model called LaMDA. This new version runs on PaLM 2, which Google says “significantly outperforms PaLM while using significantly less compute at inference time.”
Google also announced different versions of its model. The lightest one, “Gecko,” is primed for smartphone integration which means you’ll be able to run it locally on your own Android device. Google al
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