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No, that was LaMDA. https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...

Bard is "powered by LaMDA". So it's at the bare minimum an interface to LaMDA.

I don't know exactly what's being added to make it distinct from LaMDA, but it is being pushed as LaMDA with extra bits.

Bard is smaller lambda model than the best one that have

source?

"We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback." https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...

I think they dumbed it down in order to release it, so that Google researcher probably interacted with a much less restricted version of LaMDA.

I tried a version of BingChat that was so crippled after their fine tuning went off the rails that taking to a cat would be more informative.

I think this is what will happen here, Bart play reasonably dumb to keep it safe and then they will enhance it with more sophisticated capabilities.

"Introducing Bard, Google's experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA"

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