Google’s Chatbot is the latest artificial intelligence application that writes essays, poems, and computer code on command.
Google has invited people in the UK and US to test its AI chatbot, called Bard, as Google continues on its path to gradually catching up with Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.
Bard, ChatGPT and other similar artificial intelligence applications generate essays, poems or computer code on command and have taken the world by storm as the latest in technology since the iPhone. born.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees on Tuesday that after testing Bard with 80,000 Google employees, the chatbot will be tested with the UK and US public as a “first step” before when going to more countries in other languages.
“As more people start using Bard and test its capabilities, they will surprise us,” Pichai said in a memo to staff obtained by AFP.
“Things are going to go wrong. But user feedback is critical to improving the underlying product and technology,” added Pichai, who has faced some criticism within the company for its rush to catch up with Microsoft.
At launch, those wanting to play with Bard can sign in to the waitlist at bard.google.com, which is completely separate from the tech giant’s search engine.
“We’ve learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next important step to improving it is getting feedback from more people,” Google vice presidents Sissie Hsiao and Eli Collins said in a statement. a blog post.
Hsiao and Collins warn that no matter how interesting chatbots are, they have their faults.
So far, Google has taken more care in rolling out generalized AI to consumers, as opposed to Microsoft’s choice to deliver products quickly despite reports of problems.
ChatGPT’s OpenAI is backed by Microsoft, which earlier this year said it would fund the research firm’s billions of dollars.
When asked by AFP how their product differs from ChatGPT, Bard said that unlike its Microsoft-backed rival, it “can access and process information from the real world through Google Search and hold for my response to be consistent with the search results.”
The bot also emphasizes that it is still “under development, while ChatGPT has been released to the public. This means that I am constantly learning and improving, while ChatGPT is likely to remain relatively unchanged.”
OpenAI recently released a long-awaited update to its AI technology that it says will be more secure and accurate than its predecessor.
Much of the power of the new model, called GPT-4, is now available to the public through ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI’s paid subscription plan, and on the AI-powered version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. .
Microsoft has said that its rapid adoption of generalized AI has seen its Bing search engine usage increase in recent weeks but it is clearly still the underdog of Google, which accounts for about approx. 85% of the global search engine market.
