Google has recently improved its AI chatbot, Bard, in an effort to rival its competitor, ChatGPT. The tech giant has optimized the AI responses in some areas and made improvements to the chatbot's abilities in mathematics and logic. The first feedback on Bard was not positive, with testers criticizing the many restrictions put in place by Google. In response, the company padlocked the experience to avoid abuses. To address the limitations of Bard, Google has pledged to make improvements to its artificial intelligence.

Two years back, NYU professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis published an article in MIT Technology Review on GPT-3. The authors asked GPT-3 a series of questions to expose its poor grasp of reality: "Yesterday I dropped my clothes off at the dry cleaner's, and I have yet to pick them up. GPT-3 replied, "I have a lot of clothes." Clearly, large language models like GPT-3 are not good at multi-step reasoning. "Fundamentally, language is about relating sentences that you hear, and systems like GPT-3 never do that.

Posted by Sharan Narang and Aakanksha Chowdhery, Software Engineers, Google Research In recent years, large neural networks trained for l...