Bard vs. ChatGPT ... Top AI stories TL;DR 20Oct23

Last update: 10/20/23

When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT driven by a comprehensive LLM called "GPT-3.5" back in late 2022, it caught Google off-guard. Google was even more befuddled when OpenAI replaced GPT-3.5 with the more powerful model GPT-4 in early 2023; then OpenAI released an incessant stream of new capabilities for ChatGPT in the months that followed ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE

Google eventually introduced its Bard chatbot in March 2023 driven by a comprehensive LLM called "LaMDA". This was, at best, a weak response. However, Google subsequently released its own incessant stream of new capabilities for Bard in the months that followed. On 9/19/23, Google replaced Bard's original LLM with a more powerful model called "PaLM 2". 

Now that Google has introduced so many improvements, do you think that Bard has finally caught up to ChatGPT? If you don't, how much more time do you think Google will need: three months, six months, another year?

The two articles featured this week provide the kind of data that readers will need in order to answer these questions for themselves. The first is Google's official timeline for its enhancements to Bard; the second is the TechCrunch timeline for OpenAI's enhancements to ChatGPT.

Note that Bard is free; users only need a Google account (also free); its URL = https://bard.google.com

1.  "Bard Experiment -- Updates", Google, 9/27/23 ➡ https://bard.google.com/updates
   -- Google is currently testing Med-PaLM 2, a limited LLM that focuses on healthcare. A brief overview is presented in  "Google’s Medical AI Chatbot: The Future of Healthcare Conversations", Walter Shields, LinkedIn, 7/15/23 ➡ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/googles-medical-ai-chatbot-future-healthcare-walter-shields/
   
   For more info ➡ https://neoskeptics.blogspot.com/p/last-update-sunday-319-23-this.html#Other
   
   
2.  "ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot", Alyssa Stringer and Kyle Wiggers, TechCrunch, 10/17/23 ➡ https://t.co/N9P9zfOIll
   
   For more info ➡ https://neoskeptics.blogspot.com/p/last-update-sunday-319-23-this.html#OpenAI