Google's CEO Sundar Pichai has recently shared a new blog post officially announcing that the company is working on Bard, Google's own conversational AI service and a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Powered by Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), the AI has been in development for quite some time and is now being experimented on by a group of "trusted testers" in order to ensure that Bard's responses "meet a high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information".
According to the announcement, Bard is set to become available in the coming weeks and will initially be powered by the lightweight model version of LaMDA, a smaller model that requires less computing power, enabling more users to access it at the same time and allowing Google to collect more feedback.
