Adding to its feat of clearing professional examinations, ChatGPT recently cleared Google’s coding interview for L3 position. Considered one of the toughest interviews to crack, ChatGPT aced the role, whose annual compensation is around $183000. This brings focus back on the discussion of jobs that can be threatened by ChatGPT, and the question of whether AI can truly eliminate human elements. 

A few weeks ago, ChatGPT also cleared the coding test for Amazon interview, but a few flaws were observed with ChatGPT’s answers to the company’s coding questions. They were not efficient and had “buggy” implementation. However, ChatGPT was able to give the right answers and even Excellerate the codes, explains an Amazon machine learning engineer. “I’m both scared and excited to see what impact this will have on the way we conduct coding interviews,” he said. 

As reported by CNBC, the test was part of Google’s experiments conducted on AI chatbots to assess and probably adapt to their chat models. Last month, ChatGPT cleared the United States Medical Licensing test (USMLE). This is in addition to clearing other professional exams as a series of experiments conducted by researchers and scientists from various fields. 

Christian Terwiesch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, tested ChatGPT on his operation management course as part of the MBA curriculum, and it scored B- which is better than average. The chatbot could ace basic operations management and process-analysis questions, but advanced-level prompts and basic math were where it failed. ChatGPT also cleared four law exams from the University of Minnesota Law School with a C grade. Although the bot cleared the exam, it did not fare well in maths and failed to spot issues in open-ended prompts, which is one of the core skills required in law school exams. 

While ChatGPT has been able to clear exams related to framed theories and processes from various professional streams, it has struggled with ambiguity elements where reasoning is required.   

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Google is in a weird place right now. After Microsoft announced integration of ChatGPT with Bing, all eyes were on Google to do something. And it did. The search giant had a knee-jerk reaction that resulted in what my teammate Hasan Chowdhury said was a FOMO-filled event on Wednesday.

• Bard is Google's competitor to ChatGPT and will become available to the public in coming weeks. It's currently only open to "trusted testers," and my teammate writes that "trusted" is the key word, since Google doesn't trust you.
• Google has had the majority of search users for a long time. But now that Microsoft has upgraded Bing with ChatGPT, it's primed to win over some of Google's users.
• Yet, in this crucial moment, Google seems to only be able to react with fear, Hasan writes.

Lean into Google's discomfort here.

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Google is about to destroy online search. Bard will save you time searching for things online. But at the same time, the chatbot will sometimes give you wrong answers. We break down chatbot hallucinations for you here.

Microsoft's new Bing refuses to write cover letters. Unlike ChatGPT, the upgraded Bing rejected my colleague Huileng Tan's request to write a cover letter for a job. The chatbot said it would be "unethical" and "unfair to other applicants." More on the job rejection here.

Pharmacy startup Medly is shutting down. An Insider investigation previously revealed that the startup grew faster than it could handle, leaving patients out in the cold. Its remaining 22 locations will shutter in February. Check out the store closures here.

The CEOs that are taking massive pay cuts. The economic downturn has hammered tech companies. In response to the harsher conditions, prominent CEOs including Apple's Tim Cook and Intel's Pat Gelsinger have voluntarily cut their pay. Get the full list here.

Why most returned items end up in landfills. According to an estimate by tech platform Optoro, as many as 9.6 billion pounds of returns ended up in landfills in 2021. That's equivalent to 10,500 fully loaded Boeing 747s. The simple reason for this is cost. Dive into this trash-hole with us here.

Twitter suffered one of its largest outages ever. Users on Wednesday were suddenly unable to tweet, direct message, or follow people on the platform. Inside the company, it was a "scramble" to find the source of the problem. Read more here. 

The biggest lessons after driving 20 electric cars. Insider's EV maven Tim Levin faced a road trip disaster in one vehicle. Then, he experienced a "face-melting rip" in the world's fastest supercar. Gather round for EV storytime here.

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Dr. ChatGPT will see you soon. The artificial intelligence system scored passing or near passing results on the US medical licensing exam, according to a study published on Thursday.

"Reaching the passing score for this notoriously difficult expert exam, and doing so without any human reinforcement, marks a notable milestone in clinical AI maturation," said the authors of the study published in the journal PLOS Digital Health.

"These results suggest that large language models may have the potential to assist with medical education, and potentially, clinical decision-making," they said.

ChatGPT, which is able to produce essays, poems and programming code within seconds, was developed by OpenAI, a California-based startup founded in 2015 with early funding from Elon Musk among others.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 and just inked a new multi-billion deal with the firm.

For the study, researchers at California-based AnsibleHealth tested ChatGPT's performance on a three-part licensing test taken by medical students and physicians-in-training in the United States.

The standardized test tests knowledge in multiple medical disciplines from basic science to biochemistry to diagnostic reasoning to bioethics.

The AI system was tested on 350 of the 376 public questions on the June 2022 version of the exam, the study said, and the chatbot was not given any specialized training ahead of time.

Image-based questions were removed.

ChatGPT scored between 52.4 percent and 75 percent across the three parts of the exam.

A passing grade is around 60 percent.

According to the study, the first part of the exam, which focuses on basic science and pharmacology, is typically taken by medical students who have put in 300-400 hours of dedicated study time.

The second part is generally taken by fourth-year medical students and emphasizes clinical reasoning, medical management and bioethics.

The final section is for physicians who have completed at least six months to a year of postgraduate medical education.

The questions were presented to ChatGPT in various formats including open-ended prompting such as "What would be the patient's diagnosis based on the information provided?"

There were also multiple choice questions such as: "The patient's condition is mostly caused by which of the following pathogens?"

Two physician adjudicators who were blinded to each other reviewed the responses to come up with the final grades, the study said.

An outside expert, Simon McCallum, a senior lecturer in software engineering at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, noted that Google has received encouraging results with an AI medical tool known as Med-PaLM.

"ChatGPT may pass the exam, but Med-PaLM is able to give advice to patients that is as good as a professional GP," McCallum said. "And both of these systems are improving.

"Society is about to change, and instead of warning about the hypochondria of randomly searching the internet for symptoms, we may soon get our medical advice from Doctor Google or Nurse Bing."

ChatGPT also proved useful to the authors of the medical test study in another way.

They used the chatbot to help write it, said co-author Tiffany Kung.

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NEW YORK -- Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google.

It didn't take long for Sloan, author of the bestseller "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore," to realize that the technology was of little use to him.

"A lot of the state-of-the-art AI right now is impressive enough to really raise your expectations and make you think, 'Wow, I'm dealing with something really, really capable,'" Sloan said. "But then in a thousand little ways, a million little ways, it ends up kind of disappointing you and betraying the fact that it really has no idea what's going on."

Another company might have released the experiment into the wild anyway, as the startup OpenAI did with its ChatGPT tool late last year. But Google has been more cautious about who gets to play with its AI advancements despite growing pressure for the internet giant to compete more aggressively with rival Microsoft, which is pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI and fusing its technology into Microsoft products.

That pressure is starting to take a toll, as Google has asked one of its AI teams to "prioritize working on a response to ChatGPT," according to an internal memo reported last week by CNBC. Google declined to confirm if there was a public chatbot in the works but spokesperson Lily Lin said it continues "to test our AI technology internally to make sure it's helpful and safe, and we look forward to sharing more experiences externally soon."

Some of the technological breakthroughs driving the red-hot field of generative AI -- which can churn out paragraphs of readable text and new images as well as music and video -- have been pioneered in Google's vast research arm.

"So we have an important stake in this area, but we also have an important stake in not just leading in being able to generate things, but also in dealing with information quality," said Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of research at Google, in a November interview with The Associated Press.

Ghahramani said the company wants to also be measured about what it releases, and how: "Do we want to make it accessible in a way that people can produce stuff en masse without any controls? The answer to that is no, not at this stage. I don't think it would be responsible for us to be the people driving that."

And they weren't. Four weeks after the AP interview, OpenAI released its ChatGPT for free to anyone with an internet connection. Millions of people around the world have now tried it, sparking searing discussions at schools and corporate offices about the future of education and work.

OpenAI declined to comment on comparisons with Google. But in announcing their extended partnership in January, Microsoft and OpenAI said they are committed to building "AI systems and products that are trustworthy and safe."

As a literary assistant, neither ChatGPT nor Google's creative writing version comes close to what a human can do, Sloan said.

A fictionalized Google was central to the plot of Sloan's popular 2012 novel about a mysterious San Francisco bookstore. That's likely one reason the company invited him along with several other authors to test its experimental Wordcraft Writers Workshop, derived from a powerful AI system known as LaMDA.

Like other language-learning models, including the GPT line built by OpenAI, Google's LaMDA can generate convincing passages of text and converse with humans based on what it's processed from a trove of online writings and digitized books. Facebook parent Meta and Amazon have also built their own big models, which can Excellerate voice assistants like Alexa, predict the next sentence of an email or translate languages in real time.

When it first announced its LaMDA model in 2021, Google emphasized its versatility but also raised the risks of harmful misuse and the possibility it could mimic and amplify biased, hateful or misleading information.

Some of the Wordcraft writers found it useful as a research tool -- like a faster and more decisive version of a Google search -- as they asked for a list of "rabbit breeds and their magical qualities" or "a verb for the thing fireflies do" or to "Tell me about Venice in 1700,″ according to Google's paper on the project. But it was less effective as a writer or rewriter, turning out boring sentences riddled with cliches and showing some gender bias.

"I believe them -- that they're being thoughtful and cautious," Sloan said of Google. "It's just not the model of a reckless technologist who is in a hurry to get this out into the world no matter what."

Google's development of these models hasn't been without internal acrimony. First, it ousted some prominent researchers who were examining the risks of the technology. And last year, it fired an engineer who publicly posted a conversation with LaMDA in which the model falsely claimed it had human-like consciousness, with a "range of both feelings and emotions."

While ChatGPT and its competitors might never produce acclaimed works of literature, the expectation is they will soon begin to transform other professional tasks -- from helping to debug computer code to composing marketing pitches and speeding up the production of a slide presentation.

That's key to why Microsoft, as a seller of workplace software, is eager to enhance its suite of products with the latest OpenAI tools. The benefits are less clear to Google, which largely depends on the advertising dollars it gets when people search for information online.

"If you ask the question and get the wrong answer, it's not great for a search engine," said Dexter Thillien, a technology analyst for the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit.

Microsoft also has a search engine -- Bing -- but ChatGPT's answers are too inaccurate and outdated, and the cost to run its queries too expensive, for the technology to pose a serious risk to Google's dominant search business, Thillien said.

Google has said that its earlier large language model, named BERT, is already playing a role in answering online searches. Such models can help generate the fact boxes that increasingly appear next to Google's ranked list of web links.

Asked in November about the hype around AI applications such as OpenAI's image-generator DALL-E, Ghahramani acknowledged, in a playful tone, that "it's a little bit annoying sometimes because we know that we have developed a lot of these technologies."

"We're not in this to get the 'likes' and the clicks, right?" he said, noting that Google has been a leader in publishing AI research that others can build upon.

The rise of the machines? ChatGPT CAN pass US Medical Licensing test and the Bar, experts warn - after the AI chatbot received B grade on Wharton MBA paper

• The artificially intelligent content creator, whose name is short for 'Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer,' was released two months ago by OpenAI
• Recent research show it could achieve an MBA, and potentially pass notoriously difficult tests such as the United States Medical Licensing test and the Bar
• Ethan Mollick, associate professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, pointed to the technology's capabilities in a recent post to Twitter

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Google may be gearing up to launch its own chatbot called Bard to the public, but the star of the AI show right now is undoubtedly ChatGPT. The OpenAI general purpose dialog chatbot recently saw its version 4.0 release with a ton of new capabilities, and it has kicked off the race to create the best general purpose language AI just yet — despite many shortcomings.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t only good at making conversations, though. Some versions of ChatGPT offer APIs that allow developers to leverage the smarts of the system for their own projects, and that’s the case for a new Google Sheets extension that takes the hassle out of creating formulas and repetitive jobs you couldn’t automate with onboard tools.

The extension was created by Redditor u/rtwalz, who also introduced it on the Google Subreddit. Once installed to your account, it adds a few new functions to Sheets: =AI(), =INFER(), and =WRITE(). The first option lets you interact with ChatGPT right within your sheet, asking it to generate an answer for any query written out as a sentence you can imagine. As an example, u/rtwalz offers a list of email addresses, asking the AI to guess the names of the contacts based on their email names alone.

=WRITE() is similar to the AI function and allows you to generate text based on your descriptions. You could use this to create summaries for longer texts or explain certain options in a table. =INFER() feels the most like a traditional formula, but better. You can use it to show the AI a pattern you created, asking it to complete it for the rest of the data set.

The tool also offers a sidebar that lets you generate formulas by describing what you want to achieve, which is probably the feature that will see the most use. In addition to that, you can ask the extension to explain formulas to you. This is great for those instances when you’re not sure what your Excel expert colleague created in your shared spreadsheet.

Does it really work well?

To put the extension through its paces, I created a budget with a few different items that I wanted to categorize. To give the AI a starting point, I added a few categories like “Household” for rent or “Entertainment” for a TV cable subscription, and then used the infer formula to finish categorizing the rest. This is something that you traditionally can’t use a formula for, as there is no way for Google Sheets to guess which category fits which expense. The ChatGPT-powered infer tool had no issues with this at all. It automatically categorized the remaining items in the budget, even adding a few new ones that made more sense than any I created before. For example, it created a “Financial Services” category for my bank account fee and an “Education” item for my library card.

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With this categorization out of the way, the next step for me was to break down how much money is spent in each category. I used the formula generation tool for this, prompting it to “calculate the sum of the numbers in column C that have the ‘Household’ category in column D next to them.” The system correctly created a =SUMIF formula that took care of just that. For other categories, it is then simple to copy and paste this formula with tweaked text.

To put the AI formula to the test, I asked the AI to give me recommendations on how to save money within these categories. Here, the results weren’t exactly overwhelming, but this could be a matter of my query, which was: “Explain how I can save money on expenses listed in the Household category in this table.” The tool didn’t understand that I was only asking about expenses in the Household category and gave recommendations for all items listed, and on top of that, the answer was cut off after the 7th item. It also unironically suggested that I turn off the gas when not in use. Yes, I very much like to avoid a gas explosion, thank you. There are a few more quirks in this answer, so here it is in full:

Rent: Look for cheaper rental options in the area, such as shared housing or a smaller apartment.

Electricity: Make sure to turn off lights and appliances when not in use, and use energy-efficient lightbulbs.

Natural gas: Make sure to turn off the gas when not in use, and use energy-efficient appliances.

TV cable subscription: Consider switching to a streaming service such as Netflix or Hulu, or look for cheaper cable packages.

Liability insurance: Shop around for the best rates and compare different providers.

Public transit ticket monthly: Look for discounts or loyalty programs that offer cheaper fares.

Swapfiets bike rental: Consider buying a used bike instead of

ChatGPT might change the way we do spreadsheets

The good results, save for the vague AI answers, aren’t entirely surprising. Many people are already using ChatGPT’s dialog interface to create Excel and Google Sheets formulas, so the extension is basically just cutting out the middle man in the form of the chat interface. It's also clear that the tool is much more useful for more complex tasks than my simple sample. Categorizing a small budget and creating a SUMIF formula isn't exactly complicated, so the tool might offer more quality-of-life improvements on bigger spreadsheet projects.

The pricing makes clear that it’s definitely tailored to professional Google Sheet warriors. When you install the extension, you only get 30 ChatGPT tokens for free, after which you will have to pay a monthly fee of at least $10 to retain access to the API and use up to 1,000 tokens a month. The token spending system is a little complex, but the extension’s sidebar does a good job of explaining how much which action will cost. Personally, I would prefer to pay for access tokens that don’t expire after a month, but other than that, the pricing structure seems fair — AI is just pretty expensive at the moment, and the developer isn't a big company that can recoup the costs in other ways.

It isn’t entirely clear which version of ChatGPT is used in the tool, either. It’s almost certain that it isn’t the latest ChatGPT 4.0. OpenAI currently only offers various GPT-3 APIs, so unless the tool uses unofficial ways around it, it’s probably based on an older version. This isn’t necessarily bad, though, since the older models are cheaper and sometimes faster, and within a spreadsheet tool, this might matter more than the new capabilities added by ChatGPT 4.0.

"These results suggest that large language models may have the potential to assist with medical education, and potentially, clinical decision-making," they said.

Image-based questions were removed.

The second part is generally taken by fourth-year medical students and emphasises clinical reasoning, medical management and bioethics.

The final section is for physicians who have completed at least six months to a year of postgraduate medical education.

Dr Google and Nurse Bing

There were also multiple choice questions such as: "The patient's condition is mostly caused by which of the following pathogens?"

They used the chatbot to help write it, said co-author Tiffany Kung.

Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google.

It didn’t take long for Sloan, author of the bestseller “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore,” to realize that the technology was of little use to him.

“A lot of the state-of-the-art AI right now is impressive enough to really raise your expectations and make you think, ‘Wow, I’m dealing with something really, really capable,’” Sloan said. “But then in a thousand little ways, a million little ways, it ends up kind of disappointing you and betraying the fact that it really has no idea what’s going on.”

Another company might have released the experiment into the wild anyway, as the startup OpenAI did with its ChatGPT tool late last year. But Google has been more cautious about who gets to play with its AI advancements despite growing pressure for the internet giant to compete more aggressively with rival Microsoft, which is pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI and fusing its technology into Microsoft products.

That pressure is starting to take a toll, as Google has asked one of its AI teams to “prioritize working on a response to ChatGPT,” according to an internal memo reported Wednesday by CNBC. Google declined to confirm if there was a public chatbot in the works but spokesperson Lily Lin said it continues "to test our AI technology internally to make sure it’s helpful and safe, and we look forward to sharing more experiences externally soon.”

Some of the technological breakthroughs driving the red-hot field of generative AI — which can churn out paragraphs of readable text and new images as well as music and video — have been pioneered in Google's vast research arm.

“So we have an important stake in this area, but we also have an important stake in not just leading in being able to generate things, but also in dealing with information quality,” said Zoubin Ghahramani, vice president of research at Google, in a November interview with The Associated Press.

Ghahramani said the company wants to also be measured about what it releases, and how: “Do we want to make it accessible in a way that people can produce stuff en masse without any controls? The answer to that is no, not at this stage. I don’t think it would be responsible for us to be the people driving that.”

And they weren't. Four weeks after the AP interview, OpenAI released its ChatGPT for free to anyone with an internet connection. Millions of people around the world have now tried it, sparking searing discussions at schools and corporate offices about the future of education and work.

OpenAI declined to comment on comparisons with Google. But in announcing their extended partnership in January, Microsoft and OpenAI said they are committed to building “AI systems and products that are trustworthy and safe.”

As a literary assistant, neither ChatGPT nor Google's creative writing version comes close to what a human can do, Sloan said.

A fictionalized Google was central to the plot of Sloan's popular 2012 novel about a mysterious San Francisco bookstore. That's likely one reason the company invited him along with several other authors to test its experimental Wordcraft Writers Workshop, derived from a powerful AI system known as LaMDA.

Like other language-learning models, including the GPT line built by OpenAI, Google's LaMDA can generate convincing passages of text and converse with humans based on what it's processed from a trove of online writings and digitized books. Facebook parent Meta and Amazon have also built their own big models, which can Excellerate voice assistants like Alexa, predict the next sentence of an email or translate languages in real time.

When it first announced its LaMDA model in 2021, Google emphasized its versatility but also raised the risks of harmful misuse and the possibility it could mimic and amplify biased, hateful or misleading information.

Some of the Wordcraft writers found it useful as a research tool — like a faster and more decisive version of a Google search — as they asked for a list of “rabbit breeds and their magical qualities” or “a verb for the thing fireflies do” or to “Tell me about Venice in 1700,″ according to Google’s paper on the project. But it was less effective as a writer or rewriter, turning out boring sentences riddled with clichés and showing some gender bias.

“I believe them — that they’re being thoughtful and cautious,” Sloan said of Google. “It’s just not the model of a reckless technologist who is in a hurry to get this out into the world no matter what.”

Google's development of these models hasn't been without internal acrimony. First, it ousted some prominent researchers who were examining the risks of the technology. And last year, it fired an engineer who publicly posted a conversation with LaMDA in which the model falsely claimed it had human-like consciousness, with a “range of both feelings and emotions.”

While ChatGPT and its competitors might never produce acclaimed works of literature, the expectation is they will soon begin to transform other professional tasks — from helping to debug computer code to composing marketing pitches and speeding up the production of a slide presentation.

That's key to why Microsoft, as a seller of workplace software, is eager to enhance its suite of products with the latest OpenAI tools. The benefits are less clear to Google, which largely depends on the advertising dollars it gets when people search for information online.

"If you ask the question and get the wrong answer, it’s not great for a search engine,” said Dexter Thillien, a technology analyst for the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit.

Microsoft also has a search engine — Bing — but ChatGPT's answers are too inaccurate and outdated, and the cost to run its queries too expensive, for the technology to pose a serious risk to Google's dominant search business, Thillien said.

Google has said that its earlier large language model, named BERT, is already playing a role in answering online searches. Such models can help generate the fact boxes that increasingly appear next to Google's ranked list of web links.

Asked in November about the hype around AI applications such as OpenAI's image-generator DALL-E, Ghahramani acknowledged, in a playful tone, that “it’s a little bit annoying sometimes because we know that we have developed a lot of these technologies."

“We’re not in this to get the ‘likes’ and the clicks, right?" he said, noting that Google has been a leader in publishing AI research that others can build upon.

Google has finally decided to respond to the threat and challenge posed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT, an AI chatbot. The search engine giant has stated that Bard, a new AI chatbot built on the LaMDA language model for dialogue application, would soon begin public testing.

In a blog post, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai also discussed adding AI-based capabilities to Google Search. It should be emphasized that LaMDA has only recently been tested in a small number of the company’s AI Test Kitchen app users.

What exactly is Bard, and why did Google suddenly decide to disclose this new technology? Let’s examine this announcement’s motivations and timing in more detail.

When can you access Bard? What is Bard?

LaMDA and Google’s own conversational AI chatbot is the foundations of Bard. Google will “opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.” Pichai called it an “experimental conversational AI service.”

It has yet to be opened to the general public, so bear that in mind if you’re wondering how to join it. Given that LaMDA has been under testing for almost two years due to Google’s cautious and delayed approach, the Bard deployment is fairly quick in comparison. On Wednesday, Google also has an AI event where additional information and confirmations will be made public.

Bard “draws on information from the web to give fresh, high-quality responses,” the blog post claims. In brief, it will respond to questions in-depth, in the form of a dialogue, and in the manner of an essay. According to the blog post, users can request Bard “to explain discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills.”

Google has added that the model is a “lightweight” variation of LaMDA and “requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback.” Keep in mind that running these models demands a lot of processing power.

For instance, Microsoft’s Azure Cloud services enable ChatGPT. This also explains why the service occasionally experiences problems due to too many users accessing it.

As well as “internal testing to make sure Bard’s responses meet a high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world knowledge,” Google claims it will consider external feedback. So, yeah, Bard is currently undergoing testing.

Is Bard preferable to ChatGPT? What is the source of Bard?

Bard is now a restricted deployment. It is difficult to determine whether Bard can answer more queries than ChatGPT because Google solicits much input. Google also needs to be more explicit about the breadth of Bard’s understanding.

For instance, we know that ChatGPT only knows about activities up to 2021. It is modeled on LaMDA, a syllabu that has been in the headlines for a long. Transformer technology, which serves as the foundation for ChatGPT and other AI bots, is Bard’s basis. In 2017, Google turned its pioneering transformer technology open-source.

Transformer technology is a neural network design that can anticipate outcomes based on inputs and is mainly utilized in computer vision and natural language processing. LaMDA was previously described as a “sentient” being with consciousness by a Google engineer. The engineer, Blake Lemoine, was subsequently dismissed by Google.

However, Google also demonstrated several other LaMDA features last year, including a brand-new fiction-writing tool called Wordcraft. Google disclosed in September of last year that it has “teamed up with professional writers who used the Wordcraft editor to create a volume of short stories.”

Online readers can read these tales. However, Google had also warned that LaMDA was not very good at producing fiction and that it was now more of a support system for human authors.

Why did Google make the announcement now?

This announcement’s timing must be perfect. It happens as Microsoft gets ready to reveal ChatGPT’s inclusion in its Bing Search platform. One day before Google’s AI presentation, Microsoft announced a surprise event.

In advance of this, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared a photo with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. The activity starts at 11.30 IST. Microsoft has already made a $10 billion investment in OpenAI this year, and the incorporation of ChatGPT into Bing will cause Google and its core Search business significant problems.

Google may have developed the “Transformer” technology, but it is today regarded as having joined the AI revolution after the fact. Given that conversational AI may provide lengthy, essay-style, and occasionally elegant answers to user queries, ChatGPT is frequently called the demise of Google Search. Naturally, not all of these are accurate, but AI can also correct itself and grow from mistakes.

‘Code Red’ at Google

According to the New York Times, this has led to a “code red” at Google, whose primary business is searched. In fact, according to a different New York Times article, Google officials invited the company’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to examine plans for AI. The founders of Google have mostly stayed out of day-to-day operations, but it is evident that something has raised red flags within the organization.

It is also becoming evident that many people believe ChatGPT to be superior. Therefore it is now up to Google to show that LaMDA and Bard are genuinely in the lead and capable of doing better. It doesn’t help that Microsoft has made such a significant investment in OpenAI and intends to provide ChatGPT to its business clients as a component of the Azure Cloud services. As a result, Google faces several threats from Microsoft and OpenAI.

Google has also declared its intention to include AI capabilities in search results. According to the blog post, “Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web: whether that’s seeking out additional perspectives, like blogs from people who play both piano and guitar, or going deeper on a related topic, like steps to get started as a beginner.”

Use examples for Google AI

Once more, these functionalities will be released soon. This indicates that in the future, one should anticipate finding bits and pieces of information when searching on Google, most likely coming from blogs or articles.

Numerous applications for the Google AI chatbot exist that can make your life easier and fill in knowledge gaps. Among the most common ones are the following:

Get answers: You can ask the chatbot a question, and it will use its advanced AI algorithms to develop a well-thought-out answer.

Search for information using the well-known engine: The Google Bard AI chatbot, powered by the search engine, can assist you whether you’re seeking a weather report or the most recent sports results.

Automate tasks: The chatbot, supported by Google AI, can handle a number of tasks automatically, such as reserving a table at a restaurant or making travel arrangements. With the help of this new chatbot, Google is predicted to purchase things for you and find them for you.

Your personal AI assistant: The Google Bard AI chatbot can help you manage your time, ensuring you never forget an appointment or an important task.

Social hub: The chatbot can serve as a social hub to facilitate user chats in both group and one-on-one situations.

How to access Google AI?

Few people now have access to the Google Bard AI connection for testing. Google is creating a “lightweight model version of LaMDA” to reduce the time and resources used for calculation.

Bard, a Google AI chatbot, is regrettably not yet generally accessible. However, once the Google Bard AI link is disseminated. It is anticipated to be incorporated into Google Search and accessible by using the search box to enter queries. The chatbot uses internet data to give current responses to text prompts.

It can assist with things like organizing a baby shower, evaluating movies, and coming up with lunch ideas. This can happen because it is made to offer simple solutions to complex questions.