What is 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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The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine (WIRED)

A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier—if it doesn't tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.

China’s leading search engine, Baidu, is [working on a Chinese language bot similar to ChatGPT](https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-baidu-launch-chatgpt-style-bot-march-source-2023-01-30/). When asked about me, You Chat accurately described my role at WIRED but also credited me with being a running back at the University of Delaware and a professional creative. The tools they have built illustrate both the potential and the challenge of adapting ChatGPT-style technology to search. But the model sometimes combines sources that don’t belong together. Tinkering with the bot can give a sense of experiencing a more fluid way to interact with machines. You.com, founded by Richard Socher, an expert on language and AI, can provide answers through a chat interface. Asking about a person, for example, can produce an answer that combines information from the bios of multiple people with the same name. There’s plenty of inaccurate information on the web already, but ChatGPT readily generates fresh falsehoods. [reported to be scrambling](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html) to respond. Chen’s new AI search tool was great at pulling up all sorts of useful information from such documents, including serving up addresses and phone numbers—but some of them weren’t real. The chatbot can provide complex and sophisticated answers to questions by synthesizing information found in the billions of words scraped from the web and other sources to train its algorithms. Its underlying algorithms don’t draw directly from a database of facts or links but instead generate strings of words aimed to statistically resemble those seen in its training data, without regard for the truth.

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Is ChatGPT Healthcare's Next Big Thing? (Drug Topics)

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize and improve medicine. However, in order for widespread implementation, certain challenges and ...

Speaking on the challenges and potential for ChatGPT in health care, Parsa says, “The challenge of mass adoption of ChatGPT is the same challenge of revolutionizing health care in the U.S. ChatGPT is ushering in a new phase of health care assistance in the following ways: in general; it's a complicated system that takes time to change. The process is designed to ensure accuracy when predicting what comes next in a sequence of words. ChatGPT has been known to make up references or factually provide incorrect information. “Moving to conversational systems powered through AI models such as GPT-3 (and others), which are contextualized with patient information, will provide more personalized and clinically accurate answers for patients.” In medicine, ChatGPT is a major topic of conversation among providers and patients alike. “Conversational AI can support automation and delivery of improved clinical care,” Parsa explains. ChatGPT is trained on extensive amounts of data to learn language patterns. Among these users are health care professionals leaning into AI as the near future of medical management. In November 2022 the world was introduced to ChatGPT—an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot capable of mirroring intuitive human conversation. Open AI describes ChatGPT’s dialogue features as being able to "answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests."

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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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Baidu Stock Jumps After Chinese Search Giant Unveils ChatGPT ... (Forbes)

Chinese billionaire Robin Li's search giant has confirmed plans to roll out a ChatGPT-style service, triggering an immediate rally in its Hong Kong-listed ...

But the drive to commercialize AI has taken on added urgency for the search engine operator, as people in China have been gaining access to information from an increasingly diversified source that includes the Instagram-like Xiaohongshu app and short video platform Douyin. I contribute to Forbes, and previously I freelanced for SCMP and Nikkei. To make up for the losses in user attention, billionaire Li is pinning Baidu’s future on AI, venturing into fields such as autonomous driving, cloud computing and semiconductor chips. The Beijing-based company has named its own version of artificial intelligence-based chatbot Ernie Bot, which it plans to officially launch in March after completing internal testing, according to a press release Tuesday morning. Reports of Baidu developing a similar chatbot service first emerged back then. Just last week, OpenAI, the San Francisco-based company behind ChatGPT, has started offering users

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Chinese search engine giant Baidu announces ChatGPT-style AI bot (CNN)

It will launch a new artificial intelligence chatbot called “Wenxin Yiyan” in Chinese, or “Ernie Bot” in English, a spokesperson told CNN on Tuesday. Baidu ( ...

Details of the investment are set to be announced later on Tuesday, with the tie-up estimated to be in the $10 billion range, according to Ives. The deal “is a game changer in our opinion for Nadella & Co as the ChatGPT bot is one of the most innovative AI technologies in the world today,” he wrote in a Monday note, referring to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. [(GOOGL)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=GOOGL&source=story_quote_link) CEO Sundar Pichai said Bard was opened up to “trusted testers” starting Monday, with plans to make it available to the public “in the coming weeks.” [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link), too, is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI. [Google’s announcement](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/06/tech/google-bard-chatgpt-rival/index.html) Monday that it would unveil a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to compete with the [viral success](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/tech/chatgpt-trnd/index.html) of ChatGPT. [(BIDU)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=BIDU&source=story_quote_link) is currently testing the project internally and will likely roll out the service to users in March, the person said.

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AI Battle Royale Erupts With Google Bard Versus Microsoft OpenAI ... (Forbes)

Google has announced they will be releasing a generative AI app called Bard, based on their Lambda AI app. Microsoft is going to incorporate OpenAI ChatGPT ...

It could be that Bard will be made available on let’s say a standalone basis at first, and some people decide to go at it, pushing mightily to get the generative AI to emit foulness and falsehoods. To some degree, perhaps this takes the wind a bit out of the sails of the Microsoft and OpenAI ChatGPT juggernaut. Strategically, a search engine provider is adding functionality to their search engine that can dramatically bolster usage and make the world want to use your cup of tea. Sure, the usual warning is that you, the user, have to be diligent and double-check the AI-generated essay. You keep running that until the targeted AI is able to essentially outdo the adversarial AI and keep itself from emitting foulness (this is not going to be perfect). There was also the use of adversarial AI techniques, whereby you pit one AI that is trying to get the other AI to spew forth foulness. They will simply be lured to the Bing search engine because it has a “better generative AI” and otherwise they might not have a clue of what is under the hood. One supposes that the phasing will be something along the line of this generative AI brought to you by the makers of ChatGPT. AI insiders will cringe that people will assume that Bing is using ChatGPT, when in fact it probably will be using GPT-4, but to those outside of the AI realm, this is a distinction without a difference. About the only solution that works expeditiously is to rapidly withdraw the AI from public access. Presumably, you could ask the generative AI to produce a recipe for a delicious meal, and have it compose the recipe without necessarily going out to do a search across the Internet. The more eyeballs, the more money goes to the provider of the search engine.

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Baidu leaps to 11-month high as it reveals plan to launch ChatGPT ... (CNBC)

Shares of Baidu jumped more than 13% in Hong Kong as the company said it will launch its own artificial intelligence chatbot.

The company said in a statement that its AI chatbot project will likely complete internal testing in March before being made public, and that it will be named "Ernie bot" in English or "Wenxin Yiyan" in Chinese. [Baidu](/quotes/9888-HK/) surged by more than 13% in Hong Kong as the company said it will launch its own artificial intelligence chatbot. - Baidu's AI chatbot project will be named "Ernie bot" in English, or "Wenxin Yiyan" in Chinese.

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