Another day, another Google chatbot announcement.
Plus, AI company awarded $17 million contract for battlefield technology
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Google’s Bard vs OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Mississippi AI developer awarded $17 million contract for battlefield tech.
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1. Google’s Bard vs OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google just announced their (newest?) ChatGPT competitor, Bard. Though it’s only currently available to a small group of testers, they plan to release it to the public within the next few weeks. The main difference between Bard and ChatGPT? Bard draws on updated information from the internet, while ChatGPT has access to data only up to 2021.
The 🥩 of it:
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has announced Bard, a rival to OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT.
Both services offer similar functionality, allowing users ask questions or give prompts to receive a human-like response.
A big chunk of revenue (especially for Google) comes from their search engines, so Microsoft and Google both hope that embedding AI tools will boost the appeal of their search engines.
Without testing Bard, we can’t say which is better. But the most apparent difference between the two is Bard's ability to include recent events in its responses, as it has access to information from the internet, while ChatGPT only has access to data until 2021.
Though we’ve seen instances where ChatGPT displays knowledge of events after 2021, these instances are very few and far between.
OpenAI has warned that ChatGPT sometimes generates incorrect or nonsensical answers. The difference we’ve seen in other solutions from Microsoft’s integration with ChatGPT and the few previews of Bard, is that they display the sources they’re getting their answers from. The hope is that this allows users to perform a quality check on the answers provided before accepting it as truth.
Bard is currently only available to a group of testers, but Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has said that it will be widely available in the coming weeks.
And now…Baidu, a Chinese company often referred to as "China's answer to Google", joined the AI search race with its AI called "Ernie".
2. AI company awarded $17 million contract for battlefield technology.
Camgian, headquartered in Mississippi, was recently awarded a $17 million contract by the U.S. Army to create new AI technology for the battlefield.
The 🥩 of it:
Camgian, a digital technology company, has been awarded a $17 million contract by the U.S. Army. Camgian specializes in delivering real-time actionable intelligence through digital technologies.
The company is located in Starkville, Mississippi and has additional offices in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee; and Charleston, South Carolina. They are an award-winning developer of digital technologies that deliver real-time, actionable intelligence.
The contract is to develop AI and machine learning (ML) systems for enhancing the situational awareness of our soldiers. The tech will help them quickly reason on large amounts of data and respond to threats easier.
“Through these new programs, we will continue to expand the Army’s capabilities to think and act faster than our adversaries,” said Dr. Butler, Camgian CEO and Founder. “We are honored to serve our warfighters and provide them with the tools that they need to be successful in the current and future fight.”
