Microsoft is preparing to compete with Google in a fight for the supremacy of search engines. The tech giants are investing billions of dollars in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their search engines.
A day after Google unveiled its own experimental conversational AI service called Bard, set to rival ChatGPT, Microsoft powered its Bing search engine with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.
Bing gets ChatGPT boost
“It’s a new day for search … The race starts today,” Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, said at a launch event. “This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category, starting with the largest category of all – search,”
Microsoft unveiled that its search engine Bing and Edge browser are now powered by the advanced AI chatbot ChatGPT “to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content. We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web”.
Here’s the first demo of how the new Bing works! Using AI you’ll be able to get a quick summary to your questions on the side with links to the resources. pic.twitter.com/ZFA3rEgBn0
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ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot allowing users to hold human-like conversations with an AI, answering follow-up questions, challenging incorrect premises, and rejecting inappropriate requests. GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, a language processing model developed by the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
Disruptor: ChatGPT, the biggest disruptor in many industries, triggered a “code red” at Google. For over 20 years, Google search has been the primary portal to the internet. But the recent surge in chatbots, including ChatGPT, has the potential to revolutionize or even supersede the conventional search engine which is a significant concern for Google.
Google introduces Bard
Google is introducing a new AI chatbot called Bard in a race to become the dominant player and compete with OpenAI, the creator of the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT.
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced the project in a blog post, describing the tool as an “experimental conversational AI service” that will answer users’ queries and take part in conversations. The software will be available to a group of “trusted testers” today, says Pichai, before becoming “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.”
Say hello to Bard: The ‘experimental conversational AI service’ called Bard is powered by Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA).
“Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language models,” Pichai wrote. “It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.” Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity, “helping you to explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills.”
AI chatbot popularity: ChatGPT, the immensely popular AI chatbot, reached 100 million users just two months after its launch. In comparison, it took TikTok took nine months after its global launch to get to 100 million users while Instagram took 30 months to hit the same benchmark, according to data from Sensor Tower. Google surpasses that with 1 billion daily active users.
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