Bard is Google’s ChatGPT rival, powered by LaMDA, and will soon be out for public testing

Bard, that’s what Google is calling its AI chatbot, meant to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Bard is an experimental service which is being made available for public testing, wrote Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post. The new AI-powered chatbot is based on Google’s LaMDA technology, which is the company’s Language Model for Dialogue applications. Previously, LaMDA was in the news because a Google engineer thought the chatbot was sentient. Google’s announcement comes even as it gets ready to host an AI event on Wednesday.