Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, announced Bard on his company's blog Monday, calling it an "important next step" in the company's AI development.
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The program is Google's answer to ChatGPT, which has been gaining popularity after users shared photos of it composing Shakespearean poetry, composing music lyrics, and finding bugs in computer programs.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is a chatbot, which is a computer program that converses with humans. By scanning billions of pieces of text across the web, an algorithm selects words based on lessons learned.
Last month, Microsoft, which invested in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, announced it was extending its partnership and investing billions of dollars in the company.