today, google Unveiled Lots of new search capabilities and a demo of it AI Chatbot, known as BardA day after Microsoft announced plans to inject AI into its Bing search engine and Edge web browser.
Google’s AI announcements come after the tech giant reportedly issued a ‘code red’ to rapidly accelerate its AI strategy, following the viral success of rival ChatGPT and Microsoft’s US$10 billion investment in the product. The flood came.
Bard is conceptually similar to ChatGPT, which has gained over 100 million active users since its launch two months ago. Amateurs and experts alike are dazzled by its capabilities, which range from creating essays and poems to passing MBA exams.
But Google took credit for pioneering the technology that ChatGPT relies on and asserted its ambitions for responsible AI.
“We made important contributions to the scientific community, such as developing Transformers (Google’s machine learning model), which set the stage for much of Generative AI activity today, and we want to bring these technologies to the world in a responsible way will continue. In a way that benefits everyone,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president responsible for search, geo, advertising, commerce products and more at Google.
Bard, currently released in a lightweight version for “trusted testers”, is powered by Google’s LaMDA large language model, which is trained on Dialog to allow free-flowing, open-ended conversations. Google also plans to integrate LaMDA into its search results to generate descriptive responses to questions that do not have a clear or correct answer.
Microsoft’s Bing, which currently occupies only a small portion of the search engine market, has a system for summarizing and synthesizing web pages and various sources, including Bing’s search results, as well as composing emails. There are similar plans to roll out intelligent chatbots.
With investors flocking to AI stocks now, Microsoft expects every percentage point of the stock to add US$2 billion to search advertising revenue, Reuters wrote,
“This technology is going to reshape almost every software category,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, told reporters during a briefing at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is live in limited preview on desktop computers, and will be available for mobile devices in the coming weeks.
During the livestream event this morning, Google also gave a sneak peek at some other AI-powered capabilities:
- Adding 33 new languages to Google Translate’s offline mode, including Corsican, Latin and Yiddish
- New capabilities added to Google Lens to facilitate visual search on the web
- Immersive View AI that uses 2D images and information from Google Maps to generate a 3D representation of the full context of a place. Launching today in London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
- API that will allow developers, creators, and enterprises to build applications using its large language model, starting with LaMDA.
- Eco-Friendly Routing in Europe, designed to help users choose the most energy-efficient route for electric vehicles, including the best charging stops, fast charging stations when the driver is in congestion, or the user’s needs Cases include supermarkets with charging stations. to run errands.
With all these announcements, Google said that the only limit to search is our imagination. But there’s another limitation: inaccuracy, and it didn’t take long for it to appear.
this morning on twitter google published an ad Here’s a brief GIF of the Bard being prompted to answer a question to which it confidently gave — a wrong answer.
The prompt was “What new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovery can I tell my 9-year-old about?”, to which Bard responded with several answers, including the statement that the JWST was used to take the first picture. Pictures of a planet outside Earth’s solar system (an exoplanet) are completely wrong. According to NASA, the first pictures of exoplanets were taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in 2004.
The mistake was noticed hours after the livestreamed event, and criticism and derision inevitably ensued. At the time of writing, the ad has been viewed over 1.2 million times.
Microsoft has also warned that its AI can still generate factually incorrect information, known as hallucinations, but hopes that feedback from users will gradually improve the technology.
