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Google’s Bard Gets an Upgrade: Improved Language Model for Enhanced Chatbot Performance

Bard, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, was recently made available in trial form in the United States, but testers note that the results are not at the level of those delivered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. For this reason, Sundar Pichai, the head of Google, ensures that the improvements will come in a few days thanks to a new language model.

During a podcast to the staff of the New York Times, the head of Google reveals that Bard will switch to the PaLM language model. In comparison, it relies on LaMDA to this day. To explain the difference, Google said it trained LaMDA with 137 billion parameters when it released details of the language-based models last year. PaLM, on the other hand, was trained with about 540 billion parameters. Both models may have evolved, and grown, since early 2022, but the contrast likely shows why Google is now making the slow transition from Bard to PaLM, with its larger dataset and more varied responses.

ChatGPT is already impressive as it is, especially with GPT-4 that recently became available. OpenAI therefore seems to be at the forefront in this area. But Google’s boss says not to worry. The executive also assured that Google will conduct its own security and quality analysis as soon as it has concrete information. AI is too important an area not to be regulated. It’s also too important an area not to be well regulated.

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