Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc on Tuesday commenced the public release of its AI-powered chatbot Bard. This public release is intended to seek users’ feedback on the fast rise of AI-driven chatbots shaping today’s technology.
Initially, Bard was only open to approved testers, however, English-language users in the U.K. and the U.S. can now hop on the waiting list to access the AI technology.
According to Google, Bard will allow a collaboration with generative AI that depends on previous data to generate rather than identify content.
In recent times, both Google and Microsoft have jumped into the AI race to reimagine how people work. Both tech companies are integrating draft-writing technology into their respective word processors and other software packages.
Jack Krawczyk, Senior Product Director at Google said, the tech company was focused on its users, “boosting their productivity, accelerating their ideas, really fueling their curiosity,”
In a demonstration on bard.google.com, Krawczyk displayed how the technology creates blocks of texts instantly, a different approach from how ChatGPT displays its response text by text.
The demonstration also revealed that Bard has some included features displaying three separate drafts of any given response which will enable users to toggle to display a button labeled “Google it”, in case a user wants a web result.
In all these, there is still a challenge with its accuracy as “Bard will not always get it right,”. Recall that a February demonstration caused Google’s parent company a $100 billion in market value.
“We know the limitations of the technology, and so we want to be very deliberate at the pace at which we roll this out,” Krawczyk added.
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