The tool, known as Bard, is set to be driven by the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) developed by the company—an engine that gained notoriety when one of its engineers claimed it had achieved sentience last year, resulting in the engineer’s termination. Bard is poised to leverage the capabilities of LaMDA, offering an intriguing glimpse into Google’s advancements in dialogue-based applications and the underlying controversies surrounding the development of sentient language models.