To compete with ChatGPT, CEO Pichai reveals that Google Bard is receiving an upgrade.

 Bard, Google's recently unveiled chatbot, is going to receive an upgrade. On Thursday's episode of the New York Times Hard Fork podcast, Google CEO Sundar Pichai made this revelation. When questioned about Bard during the episode, he admitted that it has flaws.

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Bard, according to Mr. Pichai, will switch from the LaMDA model to a bigger PaLM model.

He stated: "Clearly, our models are more effective. We will be updating Bard to some of our more robust PaLM models very soon, possibly as this goes online, which will add more possibilities, be it in reasoning or coding."

Mr. Pichai also explained why they are not moving quickly and are damaging things once more. He explained, "We intend to purposefully delay connecting Bard to our most powerful models. Hence, I believe that over this time, we will maintain balance while innovating. And right now there is real excitement, so we'll do that.

Bard, according to Mr. Pichai, will switch from the LaMDA model to a bigger PaLM model.

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He continued, "Pichai indicated on Hard Fork that we realised we needed to be cautious when we put Bard out. For us, it marks the start of a journey. We wanted to test what kind of enquiries we would receive since this was the first time we had released anything. Clearly, we placed it carefully.

Microsoft and OpenAI have received excellent feedback, whereas responses to Google's chatbot have been inconsistent so far. While some claimed that it wasn't as comprehensive or context-sensitive as those of its competitors.

In the Podcast, Mr. Pichai also acknowledged that the reach of Bard was constrained by its launch with LaMDA. He stated: "Before we are certain we can handle it well, the corporation won't offer a more capable model. We are all still in the very beginning phases. Over time, we'll have even more powerful models to plug in. Yet, I don't want it to come down to who arrives first; rather, doing it right is crucial to us ".