Google details its latest language model and AI Test Kitchen – TechCrunch

During the first of two Google I/O keynotes this week, Google announced LaMDA 2, the follow-up to an AI system, LaMDA, that the company introduced at Google I/O 2021. Short for Language Models for Dialog Applications, Google claims that LaMDA 2 can break down complex topics into straightforward, digestible explanations and steps as well as generate suggestions in response to questions. LaMDA 2, an AI system built for "dialogue applications," can understand millions of topics and generate "natural conversations" that never take the same path twice, Google says. Like most AI systems, LaMDA 2 learns how likely words are to occur in a body of text -- usually a sentence -- based on many, many examples of text. Examples come in the form of documents within training datasets, which contain terabytes to petabytes of data scraped from social media, Wikipedia, books, software hosting platforms like GitHub, and other sources on the public web.