With Bard, a conversational service seemingly designed to challenge the dominance of the ChatGPT tool supported by Microsoft, Google is bracing for a war of wits in the realm of artificial intelligence.

Google claims the service will also carry out other more mundane tasks, such as offering suggestions for party planning or lunch ideas based on what food is left in a refrigerator. It claims the chatbot will be able to explain complex subjects such as outer space discoveries in terms simple enough for a child to understand.

Less than two weeks after Microsoft revealed it was investing billions of dollars in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based company that makes ChatGPT and other tools that can create new visuals and understandable text, was when Google introduced Bard in the ring.

The pressure on Google to assert that it can keep up in a field of technology that many analysts believe will be as transformative as personal computers, the internet, and smartphones have been at various stages over the past 40 years has increased with Microsoft's decision which aced its game by investing $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019.

Bard was a service that was being developed under the Atlas project by Google as part of its code red initiative to compete with ChatGPT, which has gained tens of millions of users since its release to the public late last year while also raising questions in educational institutions about its capability to write entire essays for students.

For the past six years, Google has been emphasizing the value of AI, with one of the most noticeable outcomes arriving in 2021 as part of a system dubbed Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, which is said to support Bard.

To help its billion users with their more complex questions, Google also intends to start implementing LaMDA and other advances in artificial intelligence into its powerful search engine. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence techniques would be used in Google's search in the near future without giving a particular time frame.

Google revealed last week that it is investing in and cooperating with Anthropic, an AI firm run by some former OpenAI leaders, as another another indication of its growing dedication to the industry. Anthropic has a purpose focused on AI safety and has developed its own AI chatbot named Claude.