What is Google Bard?

Google Bard is a conversational and experimental artificial intelligence service. It is a creative and helpful experiment created by Google. Its functions are similar to ChatGPT, the difference being that Google will enable it to extract information from the web. It will be used to generate human-like responses based on trained massive data.

This has been made available to a limited number of users currently. Though it is estimated that it will reach around 1 billion users and 1 out of 8 people worldwide will use it.

Google Bard: An Overview

Google Bard is an artificial intelligence chatbot that is designed to generate conversational human-like responses based on its training models. It uses machine learning to analyze text and predict the next word in the line. It was unveiled on February 6th, 2023 by Sundar Pichai who is the CEO of Google. It is powered by Google LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) and is considered to be a large learning model that is trained on huge sets of enormous data.

However, it is yet to be released for everyone to use, it is targeted to generate responses based on human thinking, speaking, and communication. It is very similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, only varying the difference in that it will collect all the resources from the web. You can learn more about this subject with this business and management course.

How To Use Google Bard?

Although it is not out yet for everyone to use, you can follow the following steps once you get it in your hands:

• You can visit the website and sign up for the waitlist.
• Once it will be released, you will have to ‘Log In’ with your email address or Google account.
• After you are logged in, you will have full access to utilize its functions as per requirements.
• You will see the Bard interface to be very Google-like with round edges and subtle colors.
• You can type your query and questions, or use the speaker option to speak your question into it.
• It is not a real-time application hence you you would not see it typing the response for you, instead, you will notice a loading sign while it generates your response.
• There are features available in Bard through which you can rate the response that it generates for you.
• One exclusive feature that it provides you with is the ‘View Other Drafts’ option.
• Within this option, you will get the alternative responses generated by Bard based on your prompt.
• It also allows you to keep asking questions to a specific prompt as it is conversational and will be able to understand the context.

Features Of Google Bard

There are a few unique features of Bard that are not available in most artificial intelligence chatbots. Here are those features:

• Bard is conversational and hence understands the context of the continued conversation from a specific prompt.
• It provides you with a ‘Reset Chat’ option, which helps you reset the chat and start a new conversation.
• Unlike ChatGPT, Bard can not save the previous responses. It has a feature called ‘Bard Activity’ using which you can view the past prompts but can not visit the responses that were generated.
• The ‘Bard Activity’ feature can be deleted or turned off.
• Bard also provides a feature that cites the sources of the responses generated, but it is not always the case.
• It has a comparatively friendlier user interface as compared to other artificial intelligence chatbots.

How Does Google Bard Work?

Bard is the conversational artificial intelligence chatbot that will work on Google LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) which is built on Transformer. The initial version of Bard is supposed to utilize the lightweight model of LaMBDA. It will require less computing power as compared to other chatbots and will be more scalable as it is supposed to extract the data directly from the web. 

The following are the steps that need to be followed for understanding the working of Bard:

• You can type the prompts or questions or queries that you need information on in the type box.
• It will generate the response based on the trained data set.
• The response is supposed to be human-like and conversational.
• You can ask more questions if you are not satisfied with the response generated.
• It is built to generate responses to your queries until you get the answer that you require.
• It has features that allow you to rate the responses generated.
• It also provides you with a feature that will cite the sources from which the information was collected to generate a response to your question.

Uses Of Google Bard

It is designed to perform various tasks that will help people employed and working in different fields. The following are some of the applications and uses of Bard:

• Bard can summarize lengthy research, articles, and web pages for you. It will help you save time from reading long texts and putting effort into reading stuff that you do not require.
• If you are stuck in a content block then Bard is the tool that you should reach out to. It will brainstorm ideas and help you generate creative content ideas through the prompt that you provide it with.
• When you need a push and motivation to help you get through some task that you are unable to finish, Bard will be that one friend. It can write you short taglines and motivation descriptions that will help you go ahead with your tasks.
• If you are unable to figure out the comparison between a particular type of data, Bard is ready to help you. It will compare the research data and charts for you to make your work efficient and easier.
• When you are not able to think of activities you want to do or have run short of places to visit. Ask Bard to suggest you places that you can visit or activities that can indulge in with your friends and family.

ChatGPT Vs Google Bard

ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence research and deployment chatbot owned by OpenAI which aims to create content that serves mankind. While Google Bard is a conversational and experimental artificial intelligence service. 

The following is a comprehensive comparison between the two:

Google Bard	ChatGPT
It is designed to generate conversational language responses.	It is designed to generate human-like responses.
Bard’s training model is Google.	ChatGPT training model is OpenAI.
The neural network architecture used by Bard is LaMBDA.	The neural network architecture used by ChatGPT is GPT.
The training data involves the conversational data in this chatbot.	The training data involves articles and other written material.
The performance is dependent on generating conversational responses.	The performance of ChatGPT depends on generating contextually relevant and coherent responses.
Bard is more customizable.	ChatGPT is less customizable.
It is still running in the beta version.	It was launched on November 30th, 2022.
It will be completely free for the latest version.	It is running on both free and premium paid models.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Google Bard

The advantages and disadvantages of Bard are enlisted below:

Advantages	Disadvantages
It generates conversational tone responses.	The responses generated could be incorrect sometimes.
It has fast interference speed and a good user interface.	It can generate responses based on biased data.
It can be customized as the user wishes.	It can not save the generated responses.
It offers multiple responses to a single prompt.	It does not have critical thinking skills.
It is integrated with the Google Cloud.	It can not replace human expertise.

Conclusion

In this blog, we discussed everything about Google Bard, an artificial intelligence chatbot that is capable of generating conversational responses. It is still to launch for people to use, but the exclusive features that it includes can top all the existing chatbots in the market.