Bard could have debuted before ChatGPT, says former Google employee

ChatGPT rival Bard, Google’s AI-powered chatbot which debuted in February, could have arrived months before its eventual launch, possibly around the same time as ChatGPT, or before it, an engineer sacked by the tech giant in July last year has revealed.

In fact, the product that eventually became Bard began development in mid-2021, said Blake Lemoine.

“It was not called Bard then, but they were working on it, and they were trying to figure out whether it would be safe to release it. They were on the verge of releasing something in the fall of 2022…so it would have come out right around the same time as ChatGPT, or right before it,” Lemoine told Futurism.