Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of Google has said that artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot Bard will soon switch to more strong PaLM model. This comes at a time when the Google chatbot is competing against OpenAI’s ChatGPT which has collected huge popularity. ChatGPT surpassed 100 million monthly active users in January just two months after the launch, which makes it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.
While speaking at The New York Times Hard Fork podcast, Pichai said, We have more capable models. Pretty soon, maybe as this goes live, we will be upgrading Bard to some of our more capable PaLM models, which will bring more capabilities, be it in reasoning, or coding. It can answer math questions better. So you will see progress over next week.
The Pathways Language Model (PaLM) by Google is a 540-billion parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model trained with the Pathways system which enables it to efficiently train a single model across multiple TPU v4 Pods.
Google said it estimated this model on hundreds of language understanding and generation tasks and found that it accomplishes state-of-the-art few-shot performance across most tasks, by notable margins in many cases.
As per Engadget, Google said it trained LaMDA on 137 billion parameters. LaMDA is a language model Google had developed internally, and according to the tech giant, Bard will be able to attract responses from high-quality information sources to give up-to-date answers.
During the podcast, Pichai was asked how he is using AI generative tools like Bard, LaMDA, and PaLM in his personal life. The tech boss recalled playing around with his son at home and talking to LaMDA.
He was asked whether OpenAI’s Chatgpt grabbed him by surprise, and he replied, There are some incredibly good people, some of whom have been at Google before. And so we knew the caliber of the team. So I think OpenAI’s progress and surprises — I think ChatGPT — you know, credit to them for finding something with a product market fit.
On March 22, Google started the public release of Bard, aiming at users and feedback. In the United States and the UK, consumers can join a waiting list for access to the AI-powered chatbot.
