Unless you’ve been living without an internet connection, you’ll have heard of the artificial intelligence-powered tool that’s been taking the world by storm: ChatGPT. Launched just three months ago and developed by Microsoft- backed startup OpenAI, the seemingly miraculous ChatGPT already has a competitor from the information giant itself Google. Now, Google has announced plans to launch its very own AI-powered program called Bard.
While Bard is not yet available to the public as it undergoes final testing, Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained in a blog post the scale of his ambition with the service, stating that, “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models.” Certainly not a little side project, then.
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“Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distil complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web: whether that’s seeking out additional perspectives (…), or going deeper on a related topic,” said Pichai.
“These new AI features will begin rolling out on Google Search soon.”
With Microsoft understood to have made a US$10 billion (AU$14.4 billion) investment in OpenAI off the back of ChatGPT, there’s little wonder that Google isn’t wasting any time in getting skin in the hottest new game. Despite being one of the best money-making machines in history, ChatGPT is a direct threat to Google’s supremacy over the information landscape, potentially offering users more direct and straightforward access to the information they’re seeking.
With two of the largest players in the game already vying for dominance in the AI-powered information space, it feels like a new era of knowledge is being born before our very eyes. With ChatGPT already winning hearts and more importantly, minds, we’ll have to wait for Google to publicly release Bard to see how close this race is going to be.
