Since its release earlier this year, Google’s experimental conversational AI service, Bard, has struggled to keep up with its competitors, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, both powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Users have found Bard’s responses to be less knowledgeable and detailed than those of its rivals. However, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed on The New York Times podcast “Hard Fork” that Bard will soon be upgraded from its current LaMDA-based model to larger-scale PaLM datasets in the coming days.
