Bard. Google

2023 - 3 - 21

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Google Releases Bard, Its Competitor in the AI Chatbot Race (The New York Times)

The internet giant will grant users access to a chatbot after years of cautious development, chasing splashy debuts from rivals OpenAI and Microsoft.

And it dovetails with Google’s index of all websites, so that it can instantly gain access to the latest information posted to the internet. The company is keen to see how people use the technology, and will further refine the chatbot based on use and feedback, the executives said. When executives demonstrated the chatbot on Monday, it refused to answer a medical question because doing so would require precise and correct information. “We want to be bold in how we innovate with this technology as well as be responsible.” The recent announcements are the beginning of Google’s plan to introduce more than 20 A.I. Two months later, the company’s primary investor and partner, Microsoft, [added a similar chatbot to its Bing internet search engine](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/microsoft-ai-chatgpt-bing.html), showing how the technology could shift the market that Google has dominated for more than 20 years. “We are well aware of the issues; we need to bring this to market responsibly,” said Eli Collins, Google’s vice president for research. chatbot will be available to a limited number of users in the United States and Britain and will accommodate additional users, countries and languages over time, Google executives said in an interview. “It is early days for the technology,” Ms. The underlying technology will also be on sale to companies and software developers who wish to build their own chatbots or power new apps. [code red](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-search.html)” in response to ChatGPT’s release, making A.I. A chatbot can instantly produce answers in complete sentences that don’t force people to scroll through a list of results, which is what a search engine would offer.

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)

Google Says You Can Now Try Out Bard, Its ChatGPT Rival (CNET)

The search giant rolls out the AI chatbot, starting with people in the US and UK.

The mass interest has also led to grand speculation about our AI future and the [potential for misunderstanding](/tech/one-thing-were-getting-wrong-about-ai/). [estimated to have reached 100 million active users](https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/), making it the [fastest-growing web platform ever](https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-just-became-the-fastest-growing-app-of-all-time/). The company didn't respond to a request for additional comment. The company is starting with people in the US and UK, who can go to the [Bard site](https://bard.google.com/) to join a waitlist. The company pointed to its own [ChatGPT captured imaginations](/tech/computing/why-were-all-obsessed-with-the-mind-blowing-chatgpt-ai-chatbot/) with its ability to give humanlike answers to just about any question, from writing oddly specific poems to producing convincing cover letters for social media managers.

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.

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.

Google Bard Plagiarized Our Article, Then Apologized When Caught (Tom's Hardware)

When I asked Google's bot to compare two recent CPUs, it took data directly from a Tom's Hardware article without attribution.

I asked "which CPU is faster" not "which CPU is faster for gaming?" While we had this information in our article, we did not explicitly say that the 7950X3D adds "64MB of L3 cache," but rather we said that it has 128MB of L3 cache. Now that Bard is out in the wild, we can see that Google's lack of citations was not a careless oversight during a rushed demo, but likely a strategy to claim content as its own that it did not create. Bard's version: "The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Intel Core i9-13900K in gaming. I became suspicious of Bard's answer when I noticed that it had cited two very precise numbers: the fact that the 7950X3D was 12 percent faster at 1080p at sock settings and 9 percent faster when both CPUs were overclocked. Today, I asked Bard, which is available in beta at bard.google.com, a question about which of two competing processors — the Intel Core i9-13900K or AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D — was faster.