Google Bard AI

What is Google Bard AI? How to use it? Features, and use cases.

Google being the most widely used search engine and also the most popular gateway for world wide web i.e. www was not having any big competitor until and unless ChatGPT was launched.

In November 2022, when ChatGPT was launched, it gained millions of users in less than a week creating a havoc for the Google and also set the code-red for Google.

What actually ChatGPT is?

ChatGPT is a chatbot of the OpenAI created by Sam Altaman.

In February of this year, Google has responded to the competitor ChatGPT by introducing the world to its own AI Chatbot, Google Bard.

What is Google Bard AI?

Similar to OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT, Google Bard is the latest chat bot introduced by Google. It can respond to user's queries in a conversational manner in layman language talkative manner. It will be like we are talking to a normal person.

However, Google Bard is not widely available for the users but according to the Google it will be integrated in Google Search and can be accessible through its search bar.

What is LaMDA?

At the heart of Google Bard is the experimental technology, LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), Google’s language model built on Transformer, a neural network architecture, which is the basis of several generative AI applications seen today and surprisingly, ChatGPT’s GPT-3 language model.

Google Bard has been released with a lightweight model version of LaMDA that utilizes significantly less computing power, allowing scalability to more users and gaining more feedback that is intended to be combined with Google’s own internal testing.

LaMDA is essentially a statistical method that can predict the following words in a series based on the previous ones. Its innovativeness lies in its ability to stimulate dialogue in a looser fashion than is typically allowed by task-based responses. This allows the conversation to flow freely from one topic to another. It utilizes concepts like multimodal user intent, reinforcement learning, and suggestions.

How to use Google Bard AI?

To be able to use Google Bard, one has to be chosen among the chosen goup of beta testers. If chosen, you can open the Google app on a smart device, tap on the chatbot icon, and simply enter your prompt or request.

This is the point where the conversation starts, and you can start asking your questions or making requests. Unfortunately, Google is no longer accepting applications to join the Beta Testing group.

Features of Google Bard AI

Although chatbots cannot exactly hold conversations like humans, they notoriously appear to do so by generating a wide range of digital text that can be repurposed in nearly any context. Google’s chatbot strives to achieve that with almost any topic thrown its way by:

• Seeking to showcase the combination of power, intelligence, and creativity
• Collecting information from user responses and the web
• Using a lite model version of the LaMDA for initial testing purposes
• Collecting feedback to improve the AI ​​system in the future

Use cases and examples of Google Bard AI

Google Bard has several potential use cases that can simplify life and fill knowledge gaps

• Getting appropriate answers to queries with its sophisticated AI algorithms
• Finding information with the familiar Google search engine
• More advanced and improved task automation powered by Google AI
• Personal AI assistance, especially for activities like assistance with time management and scheduling
• Functioning as a social hub and facilitating user conversations in all kinds of settings

Google has a long history of using AI to improve search for billions, and now, their newest AI technologies are building on this and developing entirely new ways to engage with information, whether it’s language, images, video, or audio.

Scope of AI with Google Bard

Today’s AI offers more opportunities to deepen our understanding of information and efficiently transform it into useful knowledge, thus making it convenient for people to find what they’re looking for quickly. AI is helpful in moments that require the synthesis of insights for questions that have no one correct answer.

Soon, AI-powered features in Search will be able to distill complex information and various perspectives into quick and easily digestible formats. Google Search plans to roll out these new AI features soon.

Over time, Google also intends to develop a suite of tools and APIs to help build more innovative applications with AI. These advancements could prove crucial to startups who want to build reliable and trustworthy AI systems. 

Google Bard AI vs ChatGPT

• Google Bard AI will be able to answer real-time questions. ChatGPT responses are based on data available till 2021.
• Using Google Bard AI requires a minor adjustment to the Google settings to get regular search results, while ChatGPT returns only text responses.
• Google Bard is based on LaMDA, while ChatGPT is based on GPT.
• ChatGPT has its own plagiarism detector (AI Text Classifier), a feature not yet available for Google Bard.
• Google Bard AI is completely free for now. ChatGPT Plus is a newly introduced paid plan by OpenAI.

Chatbots like ChatGPT and LaMDA are more expensive to operate than typical software. Bard’s use of the “lighter weight” version of LaMDA allows the technology to be run at a lower cost.