Google releases the AI chatbot Bard to the public and requests user feedback. A Big Competition for Microsoft and ChatGPT.
Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., launched its chatbot Bard to the public on Tuesday to catch up to Microsoft Corp. in the quickly-moving battle for artificial intelligence technology.
Customers in the United States and the United Kingdom may now sign up for a queue for an English-language subscription to Bard, a service that was previously only available to approved testers. According to Google, Bard is a collaborative generative AI experiment, which uses historical data to create content rather than recognize it.
The launch of ChatGPT, a virtual assistant from Microsoft-backed firm OpenAI, last year sparked a rush in the technology industry to make AI more accessible to people. The goal is to change the way individuals operate and get clients as a result.
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Google and Microsoft both released a rush of AI-related announcements just last week, two days apart. In addition to providing marketing-related resources for web developers to create their AI-based applications, businesses are integrating draft-writing software into their word-processing software and other collaborative software.
When asked if competitive factors were driving Bard’s rollout, senior product director Jack Krawczyk responded that Google was focused on consumers. To “increase their productivity, accelerate their ideas, and fire their curiosity,” Bard said, both internal as well as external testers have gone to him.
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As Krawczyk showed Reuters how to use the site bard.google.com, he demonstrated how the program creates text blocks instantly, as opposed to ChatGPT, which writes out responses word for word.
Bard also had a feature where users could choose between three distinct “draughts” of any given response and also included a button that said “Google it” if the user wanted to search the web for an answer.
Yet, accuracy continues to be a problem. During the demonstration, a Google pop-up message stated, “Bard is unlikely to constantly get it right.” Bard’s wrong response to a question in a promotional film last month caused $100 billion to be subtracted from Alphabet’s market value.
During its latest demo to Reuters, Google called attention to a few errors, stating, for example, that Bard had incorrectly asserted, in answer to one inquiry, that ferns needed strong, indirect light.
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When prompted for four paragraphs on a different question, Bard responded with nine. Krawczyk responded by pressing the feedback button with a thumbs-down.
We want to be extremely thoughtful about the speed at which we push this out because we are aware of the limits of the technology, he added.
