Google parent Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL.O) plans to offer a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine and developers, responding to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) in the race to lead a new wave of technology.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Monday that the business is launching a conversational AI service dubbed Bard to test users for feedback, followed by a general rollout in the following weeks.
LaMDA, Google’s AI, powers Bard, which can write text so human-like that a corporate developer last year labelled it “sentient,” a notion generally ridiculed by the technology giant and scientists.
The announcement follows Microsoft’s previous remarks that it intends to incorporate AI into all of its products as well as expand the availability of ChatGPT, the chatbot phenomenon from a firm known as OpenAI that it is sponsoring.
Pichai also stated that Google intends to introduce AI-powered capabilities to its search engine that would synthesise information to answer difficult inquiries, such as whether a guitar or a piano is easier to learn to play. And, beginning next month, Google will provide web developers, artists, and companies with tools powered by LaMDA and eventually by other AI technologies.
