What I's ChatGPT

2023 - 2 - 7

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Meet Bard, Google's Answer to ChatGPT (WIRED)

The search giant's new chatbot is in testing and will be launched “in the coming weeks.” An API will make it available for developers to build on.

Besides hallucinating incorrect information, AI models trained on text scraped from the Web are [prone to exhibiting racial and gender biases and repeating hateful language](https://www.wired.com/story/efforts-make-text-ai-less-racist-terrible/). Microsoft, which recently [invested around $10 billion in OpenAI](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/microsoft-makes-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-openai), is holding a media event tomorrow related to its work with ChatGPT’s creator that is believed to relate to new features for the company’s second-place search engine, [Bing](https://www.wired.com/tag/bing/). Other Google researchers who worked on the technology behind LaMDA became frustrated by Google’s hesitancy, and left the company to build startups harnessing the same technology. [prone to fabrication](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpts-most-charming-trick-hides-its-biggest-flaw/) and can replicate unsavory styles of speech picked up online. [wrote in a blog post](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) that Bard is already available to “trusted testers” and designed to put the “breadth of the world’s knowledge” behind a conversational interface. But some AI experts advise caution, noting that the tool does not understand the information it serves up and is inherently prone to making things up. It uses a smaller version of a powerful AI model called LaMDA, which [Google first announced in May 2021](https://www.wired.com/story/google-hopes-ai-turn-search-conversation/) and is based on similar technology to ChatGPT. Others say that it’s easier to learn chords on the guitar.” Pichai also said that Google plans to make the underlying technology available to developers through an API, as OpenAI is doing with ChatGPT, but did not offer a timeline. The company announced today that it will roll out a chatbot named Bard “in the coming weeks.” The launch appears to be a response to ChatGPT, the sensationally popular [artificial intelligence](https://www.wired.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/) chatbot developed by startup OpenAI with funding from Microsoft. Instead he showcased a novel, and cautious, use of the underlying AI technology to enhance conventional search. [web search](https://www.wired.com/tag/search/) for the first time in years. Notably, Pichai did not announce plans to integrate Bard into the search box that powers Google’s profits.

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Google announces Bard A.I. in response to ChatGPT (CNBC)

Google announced a new conversational AI technology it will open up to public testing called Bard. It confirms CNBC's prior reporting of a new chat ...

However, he and Pichai teased at the time that Google may launch similar products to the public sometime this year. Features included a chatbot called "Apprentice Bard," as well as new search desktop designs that could be used in a question-and-answer format. Bard will compete directly with rival [ChatGPT](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/chatgpt-is-a-new-ai-chatbot-that-can-answer-questions-and-write-essays.html), an AI service created by OpenAI. Bard is powered by the company's large language model LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications. [reported](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/google-testing-chatgpt-like-chatbot-apprentice-bard-with-employees.html) that Google is testing some of these features with employees as part of a "code red" plan to respond to ChatGPT, the popular chatbot backed in part by [Microsoft](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/MSFT/). [Bard](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) that the company will begin rolling out in the coming weeks.

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Google to release ChatGPT-like bot named Bard (The Business Times)

GOOGLE said on Monday it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, launching a rivalry with Microsoft that has invested billions of dollars in the ...

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Google launches ChatGPT rival called Bard (BBC News)

The tech giant says its new Artificial Intelligence-powered chatbot will roll out in the coming weeks.

OpenAI recently announced a subscription tier to complement free access. It can generate speeches, songs, marketing copy, news articles and student essays. AI chatbots are designed to answer questions and find information.

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Google Releases ChatGPT Rival AI 'Bard' to Early Testers (Bloomberg)

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is getting its ChatGPT competitor ready for prime time. The company said on Monday that its new conversational AI service, ...

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How Should You Talk to ChatGPT? A User's Guide (Bloomberg)

Getting useful answers from the AI bot requires letting go of some of our human intuitions about how to communicate.

To use it well, you need to let go of some of your intuitions about talking to humans. In response, allow me to offer a short guide to using ChatGPT. Yet I often speak to people who are less than impressed with ChatGPT, citing its mistakes and banalities, and they suggest it is a passing fad.

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Google To Release Chatbot Following ChatGPT Frenzy (Forbes)

Google's chatbot will be available to the public “in the coming weeks,” after OpenAI's ChatGPT wowed both users and investors.

OpenAI—a small, San Francisco-based startup founded in 2015—was reportedly in discussions last month to sell shares valuing the [ company at $29 billion](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/01/05/chatgpt-creator-openai-discussing-offer-valuing-company-at-29-billion-report-says/?sh=e070e6311e04). [ stock more than doubling](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/01/26/buzzfeed-shares-shoot-up-nearly-200-as-company-goes-all-in-on-chatgpt-craze/?sh=6db88c2e71e6) in a single trading day last month after the company said it would start using ChatGPT to create content. [Here’s What To Know About OpenAI’s ChatGPT—What It’s Disrupting And How To Use It](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2022/12/07/heres-what-to-know-about-openais-chatgpt-what-its-disrupting-and-how-to-use-it/?sh=589138bc2643) (Forbes) [BuzzFeed Shares Shoot Up 120% As Company Goes All In On ChatGPT Craze](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/01/26/buzzfeed-shares-shoot-up-nearly-200-as-company-goes-all-in-on-chatgpt-craze/?sh=6db88c2e71e6) (Forbes) [ChatGPT In Schools: Here’s Where It’s Banned—And How It Could Potentially Help Students](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/01/18/chatgpt-in-schools-heres-where-its-banned-and-how-it-could-potentially-help-students/?sh=3f320fbe6e2c) (Forbes) Investors have been hungry to latch onto the chatbot hype, with BuzzFeed’s [ to ban their use](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/01/18/chatgpt-in-schools-heres-where-its-banned-and-how-it-could-potentially-help-students/?sh=3f320fbe6e2c), citing cheating concerns. [ announced](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) plans Monday to publicly launch its highly anticipated chatbot, which will be integrated with its marquee search engine as Big Tech companies race to deliver artificial intelligence products to the public after Open AI’s [ ChatGPT captivated millions](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2022/12/07/heres-what-to-know-about-openais-chatgpt-what-its-disrupting-and-how-to-use-it/?sh=589138bc2643).

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What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science (Nature.com)

In December, computational biologists Casey Greene and Milton Pividori embarked on an unusual experiment: they asked an assistant who was not a scientist to ...

This leaves a trace of chosen words in the final text that can be identified statistically but are not obvious to a reader. The firm said that in tests, its latest tool incorrectly labelled human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time, and only correctly identified 26% of AI-written texts. For scientists’ purposes, a tool that is being developed by the firm Turnitin, a developer of anti-plagiarism software, might be particularly important, because Turnitin’s products are already used by schools, universities and scholarly publishers worldwide. One is ‘perplexity’, a measure of how familiar the text seems to an LLM. Edwards suggests that existing laws on discrimination and bias (as well as planned regulation of dangerous uses of AI) will help to keep the use of LLMs honest, transparent and fair. The journal Science has gone further, saying that no text generated by ChatGPT or any other AI tool can be used in a paper [5](#ref-CR5). “Why would we, as academics, be eager to use and advertise this kind of product?” wrote Iris van Rooij, a computational cognitive scientist at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, “If you believe that this technology has the potential to be transformative, then I think you have to be nervous about it,” says Greene, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora. Besides directly producing toxic content, there are concerns that AI chatbots will embed historical biases or ideas about the world from their training data, such as the superiority of particular cultures, says Shobita Parthasarathy, director of a science, technology and public-policy programme at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It is one of the much-hyped generative AI chatbot-style tools that can churn out convincingly fluent text, whether asked to produce prose, poetry, computer code or — as in the scientists’ case — to edit research papers (see ‘How an AI chatbot edits a manuscript’ at the end of this article). (Even so, Carr says that when he asked ChatGPT for 20 ways to solve a research query, it spat back gibberish and one useful idea — a statistical term he hadn’t heard of that pointed him to a new area of academic literature.) “I use LLMs every day now,” says Hafsteinn Einarsson, a computer scientist at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.

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Baidu Surges as Hope Mounts over Chinese Answer to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

News of Baidu's foray into the red-hot generative AI arena has fired up Chinese AI-related stocks from Beijing Deep Glint Technology Co. to CLoudwalk Technology ...

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Baidu to finish testing ChatGPT-style project 'Ernie Bot' in March (Reuters)

China's Baidu Inc said on Tuesday it would complete internal testing of a ChatGPT-style project called "Ernie Bot" in March, joining a global race as ...

The company has also worked to add OpenAI's image-generation software to its Bing search engine in a new challenge to Alphabet Inc's [(GOOGL.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O) Google. Beijing-based Baidu has been a first mover in China on other tech trends. [told Reuters](/technology/chinas-baidu-launch-chatgpt-style-bot-march-source-2023-01-30/) last week that Baidu was planning to launch such a service in March. ChatGPT is not available in China but some users have found workarounds to access the service. Ernie,meaning "Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration," is a large AI-powered language model introduced in 2019, Baidu said. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

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Microsoft likely to reveal ChatGPT-related service at event on Tuesday (CNBC)

Microsoft on Monday announced plans to host a news event that could be related to the AI chatbot ChatGPT.

However, it's arguably received more attention for ChatGPT and its quirky [AI image generator Dall-E](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/openai-shows-off-dall-e-image-generator-after-gpt-3.html). [investment with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-announces-multibillion-dollar-investment-in-chatgpt-maker-openai.html?&qsearchterm=chatgpt). However, shortly after the news broke, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that he was in Redmond, Washington — home to Microsoft headquarters — and "excited" for the event tomorrow. The software debuted in late November and quickly turned into a viral sensation as tech executives and venture capitalists gushed about it on Twitter, even [comparing](https://twitter.com/levie/status/1599469144688431104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) it to [Apple's](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/AAPL/) debut of the iPhone in 2007. The deal marks the third phase of the partnership between the two companies, following Microsoft's previous investments in 2019 and 2021. [Microsoft](/quotes/MSFT/) on Monday confirmed plans to host a news event Tuesday that could be related to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, just minutes after Google unveiled its [competing AI software called Bard](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/google-announces-bard-ai-in-response-to-chatgpt.html).

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