Google’s Bard

Context: Google showcased its latest work artificial intelligence (AI) as part of an event  that was livestreamed on YouTube.

About Google’s Bard:

• Bard is Google’s own conversational AI chatbot and is based on LaMDA.
• It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.
• In short, it will give in-depth, conversational and essay-style answers just like ChatGPT does right now.
• A user will be able to ask Bard to explain new discoveries from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to a 9-year-old, or learn more about the best strikers in football right now, and then get drills to build your skills.
• Bard is built on Transformer technology – which is also the backbone of ChatGPT and other AI bots.
• Transformer technology, pioneered by Google and made open-source in 2017, is a neural network architecture, which is capable of making predictions based on inputs.
• Currently, Bard looks like a limited rollout and it is hard to say whether it can answer more questions than ChatGPT.
• Google has also not made clear the amount of knowledge that Bard possesses.
  • For instance, with ChatGPT, we know its knowledge is limited to events till 2021.

Source: Indian Express

Previous Year Questions

Q.1) With reference to Web 3.0, consider the following statements:

1. Web 3.0 technology enables people to control their own data.
2. In Web 3.0 world, there can be blockchain based social networks.
3. Web 3.0 is operated by users collectively rather than a corporation

Which of the following given above are correct? (2022)

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 2 and 3 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3

Q.2) With reference to “Software as a Service (SaaS)”, consider the following statements:

1. SaaS buyers can customize the user interface and can change data fields.
2. SaaS users can access their data through their mobile devices.
3. Outlook, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail are forms of SaaS.

Which of the statements given above are correct? (2022)

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 2 and 3 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3