Google announced in early February the launch of Bard, a conversational robot designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This will also allow the multinational to extend the capabilities of its search engine through AI.

Bard is powered by Google’s LaMDA language model and aims to combine knowledge of the world with the power and intelligence of the company’s language models. It will use real-time information from the web to provide up-to-date answers in a more human language.

After a test phase with people considered “trustworthy” by Google, Bard will soon be available to the public in a light version of LaMDA. The aim of this large-scale test phase is to ensure that Bard’s answers meet high standards of quality, safety and timeliness. In the near future, Google plans to integrate these new features into its search engine to improve responses to users.

Compared to ChatGPT, Bard announces two key advantages: it offers up-to-date answers and sources its answers. ChatGPT’s database is indeed quite limited in time (2021), while Bard guarantees the quality, security and timeliness of its answers.

Google thus wishes to be bold in terms of innovation while remaining responsible in its approach.

While OpenAI is working on a version 4.0 of its GPT model (which remains rather mysterious for the moment), the battle between the two technology giants for the best conversational robot is underway. It remains to be seen which of the two will win the race.