Google introduces ChatGPT competitor Bard: Here's how to get its access and how does it work

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.

FAQs

1- Is there an Android app for ChatGPT?
There is no official ChatGPT app for Android phones at the moment.


2- How to access ChatGPT?
If you already have an account at labs.openai.com or beta.openai.com, you may use the same login credentials to access chat.openai.com. If not already you must create one at chat.openai.com.