While OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot “Chat GPT” is causing a craze around the world, Google has officially announced the launch of a counterpart to counter it.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said on the company’s official blog, “The new interactive artificial intelligence (AI) service ‘Bard’ will be open to reliable testers,” adding, “We are preparing services for the general public in the coming weeks.” Until now, it has been reported through local media that Google will soon release an AI chatbot that will compete with ChatGPT, but it is the first time that it has officially announced it.

Google’s AI service “Bard” means “poet.” CEO Pichai said, “We will combine external feedback with our own internal tests so that Bard’s resㅁponse meets high standards for the quality, safety, and rationale of actual information,” and explained, “We are looking forward to this test stage to increase Bard’s quality and speed.”

“Bard wants to combine the breadth of knowledge around the world with the intelligence and creativity of our AI,” he said. “Bard provides the latest and high-quality information based on the information on the web.” “Bad” is powered by Google’s own artificial intelligence (AI) language program “Lamda” (LaMDA).

Google’s announcement of the release of Vard came three months after ChatGPT was released in November last year. With ChatGPT gaining huge popularity, Google is on alert, with some evaluating that “Google’s era is over.” In response, it issued a “code red,” which means a serious crisis warning.CEO Pichai attended a meeting on AI strategy and ordered it, while founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who left the company three years ago, also called in to take measures. In addition, it is known that it has invested about $400 million (KRW 500 billion) in partnership with Anthropic, which is developing a new artificial intelligence chatbot called “Claude.” AnsroPick is a company that broke away from Open AI, which made headlines around the world by releasing ChatGPT at the end of November last year.With the launch of Bard, Google will allow developers to use it to create their own applications. To this end, CEO Pichai explained that starting next month, the company plans to release the generated language API (application programming interface) to companies, developers, and creators.

JULIE KIM

ASIA JOURNAL