Google introduces ChatGPT competitor Bard

 Google has announced Bard, a ChatGPT competitor that uses Google’s own language model – Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). The statement comes only days after Google CEO Sundar Pichai detailed the company’s progress during an earnings call.

Prior to the call, Google management referred to ChatGPT as “code red” since the AI-powered platform had received favourable response from users all around the world. Google said in a blog post that it is making Bard available to “trusted testers” ahead of making it broadly available to the public in the coming weeks. ChatGPT, on the other hand, has surpassed 100 million users in just two months.

What is Google Bard? How does it function?

Google Bard is an AI-powered chatbot that can respond to various inquiries in a conversational manner, similar to ChatGPT.

According to Google, Bard uses online information to give fresh, high-quality replies. LaMDA, Google's language model built on Transformer, a neural network architecture, is at the heart of Google's chatbot.

Surprisingly, ChatGPT is based on the GPT-3 language model, which is likewise based on Transformer. Transformer was created and open-sourced by Google Research in 2017.

How to access Google Bard?

Google Bard is currently not accessible for public testing, but select people have access. Google is producing a “lightweight model version of LaMDA” that uses far less computational resources.

Google has been working on its language model for some time, but the corporation halted its public release following charges made by one of its employees.

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What Is Meta - New Name of Facebook and Main Features Of New Venture Of Mark Zuckerberg

 

Meta is probably the next step in the evolution of the internet, including creating new infrastructure and real-time 3D worlds. In September this year, Facebook committed $50 million towards building it.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said investments in virtual and augmented reality will help support the evolution of the meta.

'Meta', is going to be a nascent online world where people exist and communicate in shared virtual spaces. The social media giant announced on October 17, Sunday that it plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years to create the virtual world.

What is Meta?

The term is believed to have been coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel 'Snow Crash'. He referred to it as a virtual world where people interact with each other using their avatars.
It's being touted as the next step in the evolution of the internet, including creating new infrastructure and real-time 3D worlds. So, will people go for a cyber lunch or dinner instead of a normal one? Well, Facebook is striving to make that a reality.

A Meta can be broken down into two parts. One of them deals with building a block chain-based meta, using NFTs and cryptocurrencies. Some of the examples are Decentraland and The Sandbox, which allow people to purchase virtual parcels of land and build their own environments.

Another one is a simple, virtual world where people can meet and greet each other. Facebook is working towards creating this version.

The elements of the meta include video-conferencing, games like Minecraft or Roblox, cryptocurrencies, email, virtual reality, social media and live-streaming.

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