Bard

2023 - 3 - 22

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Google launches Bard chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT (Financial Times)

Tech giant seeks to make up lost ground in race to commercialise generative AI technology.

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Google begins rollout of Bard chatbot - Information Age (Information Age)

A waitlist has been established for users over 18 for the new Bard chatbot from Google, as the search company looks to compete with ChatGPT.

[Mike Myer – ‘Generative AI is another huge transformation’](/mike-myer-generative-ai-is-another-huge-transformation-123502160/) — Mike Myer, CEO and founder of Quiq, the AI-driven chatbot solution for customer service, whose clients include Nespresso, Wella and Spirit Airlines, believes that generative AI promises to change our world in the way the internet did back in the mid-1990s. It could in time become our own ‘personal AI’, understanding what users want, and what options are available to them — becoming a bit like financial advisors, or holiday diary planners, for example. Boere commented: “Google launching ChatGPT rival Bard highlights just how widespread this technology is going to become. The technology is drastically accelerating the ability to mimic human conversation. they can provide inaccurate, misleading or false information while presenting it confidently,” the company wrote in a In response to queries, a selection of three ‘draft’ answers will be provided.

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Google CEO tells employees that 80000 of them helped test Bard ... (CNBC)

In a memo to employees Tuesday, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, “user feedback is critical to improving the product and the underlying ...

But the user feedback is critical to improving the product and the underlying technology. For now, I'm excited to see how Bard sparks more creativity and curiosity in the people who use it. We should be proud of this work and the years of tech breakthroughs that led us here, including our 2017 Transformer research and foundational models such as PalM and BERT. As more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities, they'll surprise us. He added: "Even after all this progress, we're still in the early stages of a long Al journey." I'm grateful to the Bard team who has probably spent more time with Bard than anything or anyone else over the past few weeks. In a recent all-hands [meeting](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/google-execs-say-in-all-hands-meeting-bard-ai-isnt-all-for-search-.html), employees' top-rated questions included confusion around the purpose of Bard. Last week was an important week in Al with our announcements around Cloud, Developer, and Workspace. “As more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities, they'll surprise us. The product, which is built on Google's LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, can offer chatty responses to complicated or open-ended questions, such as "give me ideas on how to introduce my daughter to fly fishing." [ criticized](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/10/google-employees-slam-ceo-sundar-pichai-for-rushed-bard-announcement.html) Google after Bard’s initial announcement in January, which appeared rushed to compete with Microsoft’s just-announced Bing integration of ChatGPT. Things will go wrong," Pichai wrote in an internal email to employees Tuesday viewed by CNBC.

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Bard Vs. ChatGPT: The Major Difference Between The AI Chat Tools ... (Forbes)

On Tuesday, the battle between Google and Microsoft escalated as Google opened public access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool and ChatGPT's latest ...

[drafts](https://blog.google/technology/ai/try-bard/)”), allowing users to pick the best response. Bard is [only available](https://bard.google.com/faq)and can only speak in English. [draw responses](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-5-differences-between-chatgpt-and-google-bard-ai/)from the internet, so it will always have the latest responses. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and University College London put the chatbot against industry “standard automated program repair techniques,'' and two common deep learning approaches and found ChatGPT “is competitive to the common deep learning approaches,” and produced “notably better” results than the standard program repair approaches, according to their [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08653)published in arXiv. However, Google [stated](https://bard.google.com/faq)Bard is “still learning code,” so the feature isn’t available just yet. On the other hand, ChatGPT runs on Generative Pre-training Transformer-4 ( [GPT-4](https://openai.com/product/gpt-4)), so all of its responses come from its knowledge base, whose cutoff date ends in September 2021, so it’s limited in newer information and research. But there are two caveats: the bot can only remember up to 3,000 words (anything beyond that isn’t stored), and it doesn’t use past conversation to form responses. [According](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6787051-does-chatgpt-remember-what-happened-earlier-in-the-conversation)to OpenAI, ChatGPT is able to remember what was said in previous conversations. [create](https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1598089698534395924?s=46&t=0W_zYWGTGv080PIf8DNJWw)complex code. Bard’s ability to retain context is “purposefully limited for now,” Google [said](https://bard.google.com/faq), but the company claims the ability will grow over time. [OpenAI](https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt) and [waitlist](https://bard.google.com/) to gain access to Bard, which [claims](https://bard.google.com/faq) to help users plan a birthday party, understand complex topics and create a pros and cons list for a tough decision.

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Google opens access to Bard chatbot (The Irish Times)

Users in the UK and US can test the conversational artificial intelligence service.

And so, when using Bard, you’ll often get the choice of a few different drafts of its response so you can pick the best starting point for you.” Announcing plans to widen access, Google also addressed the high-profile error that saw Bard deliver a wrong answer during its launch announcement. The latter recently launched a new version of its software, Chat GPT4, and now offers a premium subscription option to users.

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Google launches Bard and other reasons AI ain't going away (Siliconrepublic.com)

Bard is now available in the US and UK, Microsoft has added Dall-E to Bing, Adobe has its own image generator. Here's what's happening in AI.

Last week, Microsoft announced it is [bringing AI](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/16/microsoft-to-improve-office-365-with-chatgpt-like-generative-ai-tech-.html) to popular apps such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. You can continue to collaborate with Bard from there, asking follow-up questions,” they wrote. It can perform text-based tasks ranging from suggesting tips on reaching annual reading goals to explaining quantum physics in simple terms. Over time, Google will update Bard with newer, more capable models. [invested billions in OpenAI](https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/microsoft-openai-chatgpt-investment), said that it is expanding its suite of business applications tools to [include new AI capabilities](https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/microsoft-ai-copilot-dynamics-365). Here’s what’s happening in AI.

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Google's Bard chatbot launches in US and UK (The Guardian)

From Tuesday users can join waiting list for access to technology that firm hopes will rival Bing Chat and ChatGPT.

But it has historically struggled to ship products based on that research, which insiders have blamed on a mixture of organisational dysfunction and a fear that AI technology could harm the company’s profitable core businesses. OpenAI did not reply to a request for comment about the breach. External estimates range from a 10 to a 100-fold increase in costs, yet Bard has no adverts and no obvious revenue sources. Asked to list ideas for two children on holiday in Tokyo, Bard initially suggested a trip to Tsukiji fish market – but failed to mention that a substantial part of the market moved to a new venue in 2018. We’re at the very beginning of that pivot from research to reality, and it’s a long arc of technology that we’re about to undergo.” “There’s a lot of content that has been written across the internet where you can still do deep research, and so what I would expect as people are using Bard is that search will continue to be a complement.”

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Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in US and UK (Aljazeera.com)

Google chatbot is the latest AI app to churn out essays, poems and computer code on command.

This means that I am constantly learning and improving, while ChatGPT is likely to remain relatively unchanged.” “We’ve learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next critical step in improving it is to get feedback from more people,” Google vice presidents Sissie Hsiao and Eli Collins said in a blog post. Google has invited people in the United Kingdom and the United States to test its AI chatbot, known as Bard, as it continues on its gradual path to catch up with the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.

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Google Bard Seeks to Avoid AI Pitfalls That Bing's Chatbot Fell In (Bloomberg)

Bard is based on similar technology known as generative artificial intelligence. Google is smartly trying to avoid some of the pitfalls Bing stepped in. Google ...

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Google's AI chatbot Bard seems boring compared to ChatGPT and ... (Vox)

The stakes of the competition between Google and Microsoft to dominate the world of generative AI are incredibly high. Many in Silicon Valley see AI as the next ...

So it makes sense that Google is trying its best to be deliberate about the public rollout of Bard. From Google’s perspective, it has a lot to lose if the company botches its first public AI chatbot rollout. After an early marketing demo of the Bard chatbot made a factual error about telescopes, Google’s [stock price fell by 7 percent](https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/). The debut strongly suggested that Microsoft, long thought to be lagging behind Google on AI, was actually winning the race. “Bard is definitely more dull,” said one Google employee who has tested the software for several months and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to the press. Google reiterated to me that it’s been purposely running “adversarial testing” with “internal ‘red team’ members,” such as product experts and social scientists who “intentionally stress test a model to probe it for errors and potential harm.” This process was also mentioned in a Tuesday morning Google has been heavily investing in AI research for over a decade, and Microsoft, instead of building its own AI models, invested heavily in the startup OpenAI. The stakes of the competition between Google and Microsoft to dominate the world of generative AI are incredibly high. Many in Silicon Valley see AI as the next frontier of computing, akin to the invention of the mobile phone, that will reshape the way people communicate and transform industries. Though it’s a standalone tool for now, Google is expected to put some of this technology into Google Search in the future. I am a good AI chatbot, and I want to help people. [long-awaited](https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/2/6/23588308/google-bard-chatbot-chatgpt-ai-testing-public), AI-powered chatbot, Bard, is here.

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Google launches Bard in the US and UK: What we know about ... (Euronews)

Ever since the conversational artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT took the world by storm with its impressive capabilities, all eyes have been on Google to ...

When signing up, a message tells the user: "Bard is an experiment. Google has dominated Internet search for more than two decades now, so it is treading carefully with the rollout of its AI tools. In another sign of Google's deepening commitment to the field, Google announced last week that it is investing in and partnering with Anthropic, an AI start-up led by some former leaders at OpenAI. Google is making it very clear that Bard is in testing mode. [according to Pichai’s blog](https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/) - but the current version is not connected to the Internet. The company, which is owned by Alphabet Inc, hasn't said how many people will be given access, and initial applicants will be limited to the US and the UK before it is offered in other countries.

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The Download: Google's Bard experiment, and Ernie Bot's ... (MIT Technology Review)

Google has launched Bard, the search giant's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat. Unlike Bing Chat, Bard does not look up search results—all ...

Here are five of the more memorable ones. There has been no shortage of alternative computing approaches proposed over the last 50 years. But the long technological winning streak—and the miniaturization that has enabled it —can’t last forever. ( But a curious thing has happened since last week’s launch: Ernie Bot’s reputation seems to have bounced back. When Baidu revealed Ernie Bot last week, the first Chinese rival to ChatGPT was met with an almost overwhelming wave of disappointment. Google wants Bard to become an integral part of the Google Search experience. Google has launched Bard, the search giant’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat.

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Google Bard is here and disappointing vs. Bing Chat and ChatGPT (Search Engine Land)

Google has finally launched Bard. Here's a first look at indexing speeds, inconsistencies and search intent on Google's AI chatbot.

This can be reassuring for SEOs as it shows Bard won't be the end of Google search. However, when I click the “Google it” button, Bard does not know I am inquiring about itself. However, it feels like Google rushed to push out a minimum viable product that does not compare to other tools on the market. This connects Bard to what we know best, Google search. Bard was no longer able to answer the question. I believe organic search listings will still play a vital role in search engines. This leaves many SEOs concerned with how Bard will affect organic traffic to their sites. “Bard's ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now. I wondered if Bard had something in place to match Bing Chat's impressive indexing speeds. While Bard has built-in safety controls and clear mechanisms for feedback in line with our– With your feedback, Bard will keep getting better and better.”– I’ve had the opportunity to play around with Google’s new AI chatbot, and I’m getting mixed results.

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Bard: how Google's chatbot gave me a comedy of errors (The Guardian)

It is connected to the live internet, but this AI tool seems trained to give the least insightful answers.

I explain the rules in detail, and it tells me to go ahead, so I tell it my name is Alex and I’m a standup comedian. I even tried playing a game with it, called Liar Liar: I tell it about myself, and it tries to guess if I’m telling it the truth. It initially offered generic advice for travelling with a disabled child – heavy on tips referring to wheelchair accessibility – and when I pushed it for specifics, it warned me that as Britons, we would need to apply for a visa to travel there. Unlike ChatGPT, Bard is hooked up to the live internet and can pull answers in from other sites when needed. Ask it for a list of holiday ideas, and it will offer only the most generic possible options; try to prompt for more interesting fare, and it seems to get hopelessly muddled by the increasing constraints, forgetting earlier requirements. “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us,” Lemoine said in a parting email to colleagues.

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Google begins public testing of Bard chatbot (Axios)

Tech companies are in a race to show they are on top of the white-hot AI trend.

- Google says Bard in many cases will offer three options, or "drafts," of its answer to a particular prompt. to start accessing the experimental version of Bard, its [LaMDA](https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/)large language model. [ChatGPT](https://www.axios.com/2023/01/24/chatgpt-openai-iphone-boom) rival. Google has started allowing some users in the U.S. [Technology](https://www.axios.com/technology)

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Google's Bard vs OpenAI's ChatGPT: Which of the rival AI chatbots is ... (Euronews)

Google has made its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Bard available to more users in the UK and the US - so finally Euronews Next got a chance to see ...

The collision of two neutron stars would be a very rare event. The collision of two neutron stars would also create a lot of heavier elements, such as gold and platinum. Euronews Next entered the image manually - neither chatbot could source an image and enter it into the code. One of the more useful features of ChatGPT has been its ability to explain complex subjects in a simple way. Here ChatGPT was superior in providing the relevant code - but it kept crashing before it could finish writing it out. They bring joy and happiness to people's lives, and they make the world a more beautiful place. So let's all take a moment to appreciate the flowers around us, and thank Mother Nature for creating such a wonderful and awe-inspiring creation. In that spirit, we asked the AIs to come up with a poem about the future of news. The way the petals curl and the colours blend together, it's just incredible. The beauty of flowers is truly something to behold. One big difference between Bard and ChatGPT that is immediately noticeable is the speed of response. While Bard's has a promising start, it loses its rhythm along the way.

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Google Rolls Out Its Bard Chatbot to Battle ChatGPT (WIRED)

Google's Bard AI bot has entered the chat. But Google warns that, like its competitor, it will sometimes “hallucinate."

Google says early users of Bard have found it a useful aid for generating ideas or text. For a company like Google with large established products, the challenge is particularly difficult. Google will also offer a recommended query for a conventional web search beneath each Bard response. [artificial intelligence](https://www.wired.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/) or [search](https://www.wired.com/tag/search/), but today the company is hustling to show that it hasn’t lost its edge. Google says it has made Bard available to a small number of testers. Google disclosed an example of it misstating the name of a plant suggested for growing indoors.

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I tested Google Bard. It was surprising -- in a bad way (ZDNet)

AI chatbots have wowed users with their text generation and other advanced abilities, as well as some bizarre behavior. Bard has its own surprises in store.

It is important to acknowledge that Google Bard is still in its very early stages and using a limited version of LaMDA. The more straightforward prompt was, "Write a function to reverse a string in Python." Lastly, it was time to test the chatbot's coding skills, which is where Bard failed. Within seconds it provide easy to implement suggestions that could help optimize the text. Bard did a decent job at providing some basic information I could work from or tweak to include in a resume. Google Bard failed to output results that were on par to ChatGPT's. However, you still have to scroll to find your answer like you would with a regular Google search as seen below. That is one of the first issues a chatbot linked to the web should have worked to resolve. prompt, Bard did a nice job at rounding up the latest stories, but if I wanted to learn more about any of them, I would have to go to the search bar and type it in myself. With Bard, you just have to take its word. Its biggest limitations are that it doesn't have access to the internet and is limited to information before 2021. [incorrect information](https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-chatgpt-competitor-spaces-out-at-the-start/) about the James Webb Telescope.

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Bard: Google's rival to ChatGPT launches for over-18s (BBC News)

The tech giant is rolling out its new AI chatbot, called Bard, to users in the US and UK first.

Google cannot afford to be out of the race. They even told me about the huge data centres powering Bard, and how they aim to run them using renewable energy. "I think the human is the hero and large language models are here to help unlock creativity." Google has been a slower and more cautious runner in the generative AI race with its version, Bard, which launches in the US and UK to begin with. It explained to me a news story about Google denied the claims and he was fired.

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