Google Rolls Out AI Test Kitchen in the U.S.
- By CDOTrends editors
- September 27, 2022

AI has come a long way from its origins in the 1950s. It made significant strides in recent years, with machine learning and natural language processing advances. These advances have enabled new applications in computer vision, robotics, and finance fields.
Early this year, Google introduced AI Test Kitchen, a new way for people to learn about, experience, and give feedback on emerging AI technology. AI Test Kitchen provides a rotating set of experimental demos designed to give users a taste of what's possible with AI.
In the next few weeks, Google will roll out the AI Test Kitchen to a small group of users in the U.S. Beginning with LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), Google will provide users with a rotating set of AI models to try out.
LaMDA is a natural language processing model that enables conversations with computers. With 137 billion parameters, LaMDA is one of the most significant AI models ever created. Google trained LaMDA on a natural language dataset containing 1.56 trillion words, improving the model's general conversational skills and preventing it from generating biased and toxic responses.
"For example, the model can misunderstand the intent behind identity terms and sometimes fails to produce a response when used because it has difficulty differentiating between benign and adversarial prompts. It can also produce harmful or toxic responses based on biases in its training data, generating responses that stereotype and misrepresent people based on their gender or cultural background. These areas and more continue to be under active research," jointly stated Tris Warkentin, group product manager at Google Research, and Josh Woodward, senior director for product management, Labs at Google.
The AI Test Kitchen app includes three tools that allow users to interact with LaMDA. The first tool allows users to provide a goal or a topic and have LaMDA break it down into a list of subtasks. The second tool helps users explore how well the system can stay on a given topic. Finally, the third tool is an implementation of LaMDA that will allow users to name a place and receive paths to explore.
To use LaMDA, users must install the AI Test Kitchen app on their Android devices. Once installed, they can chat with LaMDA by typing or speaking questions. LaMDA will respond in natural language, just like a human conversation partner. Users on iOS will be able to try LaMDA soon, as well.
"We’re at a point where external feedback is the next, most helpful step to improve LaMDA. When you rate each LaMDA reply as nice, offensive, off-topic, or untrue, we’ll use this data — which is not linked to your Google account — to improve and develop our future products," both Warkentin and Woodward added.