Everything you wanted to know about the Google AI Chatbot Bard in 10 brief points

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With Microsoft-backed OpenAI ChatGPT making the headlines in the last few weeks, Google has unveiled its very own AI chatbot called Google Bard on February 6. The artificial intelligence journey started in 1951 with the world's first AI powered checkers-playing program written by Christopher Strachey. Over the last few months, the trend has simply skyrocketted especially after OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT gained over 100 million users within just two months of release. This forced Google to unveil its own answer to ChatGPT in the form of Google Bard.

1. Google Bard is based on the company's next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by their Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA).

2. Bard is designed as an interface to a Large Language Model (LLM) that enables users to collaborate with generative AI. Google's AI chatbot features next-generation language and conversation capabilities.

3. It is the result of Google's research in LLM which started with the introduction of a neural conversational model in 2015, followed by Google's Transformers project in 2017.

4. Google Bard is capable of generating a variety of responses, even from the same or similar prompts and questions. If a user would like to see a different response or set of responses, they can ask Bard to generate a new response.

5. Bard can be a jumping off point for users' curiosity as they explore ideas or topics of interest. For instance, Bard can explain a complex concept simply or surface relevant insights on a topic, which might inspire a user to explore and learn more.

6. How does it work? Once a user provides a prompt, Bard uses the context in the prompt and the interaction with the user to draft several versions of a response. Bard then