Google poised to release chatbot technology after ChatGPT success

Google is to make its chatbot technology available to the public in "the coming weeks and months" as it responds to the success of ChatGPT, a Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence chatbot that has become a global phenomenon after it was made available free of charge. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google's owner, Alphabet, said the use of AI had reached an "inflection point" and the company was "extremely well positioned" in the field. Pichai referred to two so-called large language models developed by the company, LaMDA and PaLM, with the former set to be released soon. This week CNBC reported that Google had begun testing an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT called Apprentice Bard, which uses LaMDA technology. LaMDA shot to prominence last year when Google suspended and then dismissed an engineer after he went public with claims that LaMDA was "sentient".