To compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's chatbot in their Bing search engine, Google has unveiled Bard, an AI chatbot.   Google defines Bard as an early AI experiment meant to increase productivity, inspire innovation, and promote curiosity in a blog post. Bard can be used to receive advice, clarification, or inspiration for things like planning blog content. Google wants to preserve its leadership in the search engine industry while strengthening its position in the AI chatbot business with Bard.

A research large language model (LLM), a compact and improved version of LaMDA, powers Bard. More modern models will be added as time goes on. As more people use LLMs, they improve at anticipating beneficial results.  

Bard is intended to be used in conjunction with Google Search and gives users the option to examine sources from other websites or review its responses.   Bard is a standalone webpage that only contains a single question box; it is not a part of Google's search engine.   By making this tactical choice, it will be possible to implement new AI technologies while keeping its search engine business profitable.

Because of competitors' use of erratic and occasionally faulty chatbot technology, Google is taking a careful approach to Bard's rollout.   Google is aware that LLMs occasionally produce biased, inaccurate, or misleading information.

Google gives you the option to pick from a few different draughts of Bard's reply to help alleviate these problems.   By posing more queries or proposing different solutions, you can keep working with Bard.

Google has made AI a top priority since OpenAI released ChatGPT and Microsoft launched chatbot technology in Bing. To expedite approval for a variety of new AI products, the company's internal teams—including experts on AI safety—are cooperating.  

Google's work on Bard is governed by its AI Principles, with a particular emphasis on quality and security.   To improve its systems, the organization leverages human evaluation and feedback. To maintain conversations that are fruitful and relevant, it has put in place guardrails such as limiting the number of exchanges in a conversation.  

Since 2015, Google has been creating the technology that powers Bard. But unlike OpenAI and Microsoft's chatbots, Bard has not been made available to a wider public due to worries about producing unreliable information and potential prejudices towards particular groups. Google is aware of these problems and wants to launch Bard ethically.  

You can register to try Bard. With ambitions to eventually include more nations and languages, access is now being rolled out in the US and the UK. A VPN can be used to get around the restricted deployment. Google doesn't allow Google Workspace email accounts and needs customers to have a Gmail address to register.

It’s critical that we bring experiences rooted in these models to the world in a bold and responsible way. That’s why we’re committed to developing AI responsibly: In 2018, Google was one of the first companies to publish a set of AI Principles. We continue to provide education and resources for our researchers, partner with governments and external organizations to develop standards and best practices, and work with communities and experts to make AI safe and useful.Whether it’s applying AI to radically transform our own products or making these powerful tools available to others, we’ll continue to be bold with innovation and responsible in our approach. And it’s just the beginning — more to come in all of these areas in the weeks and months ahead.