21 March (Reuters) On Tuesday, Alphabet Inc.'s (GOOGL.O) Google started the public rollout of its chatbot Bard in an effort to catch up to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) in the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence technology.
Customers may now go on a waiting list for English-language access to Bard, a service that was previously only available to certified testers in the US and the UK. According to Google, Bard is an experiment in collaborative generative AI, a technique that uses historical data to produce content rather than recognize it. The launch of ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed firm OpenAI, last year has sparked a rush in the technology industry to make AI more accessible to people. The goal is to change the way individuals operate and get clients as a result. Google and Microsoft both released a rush of AI-related announcements only last week, two days apart. In addition to promoting tools for web developers to create their own AI-based services, the businesses are integrating draft-writing technology into their word processors and other collaborative products. When asked whether competitive factors were driving Bard's rollout, senior product director Jack Krawczyk said that Google was focused on consumers. In order to "increase their productivity, accelerate their ideas, and really fire their curiosity," Bard said, both internal and external testers have gone to him.
Krawczyk demonstrated to Reuters how the application, unlike ChatGPT, which writes out responses word by word, instantly creates blocks of text when using the website bard.google.com.
Bard also had a feature where users could choose between three distinct "drafts" of any given response, and also included a button that said "Google it" if the user wanted to search the web for an answer.
Google said on its website that Bard is not adept at producing computer code, in contrast to ChatGPT. A key component of Google's economic model, advertising, is not currently being used with Bard, according to Google, which also claimed to have restricted Bard's recall of previous chat interactions. Accuracy is still a problem. During the demonstration, a Google pop-up message said, "Bard will not always get it right." When the program answered a question inaccurately in a promotional video last month, it helped reduce the market value of Google by $100 billion.
During the test, Google made a few errors that were pointed out to Reuters. For example, Google said that Bard incorrectly indicated ferns needed intense, indirect light in an answer to one inquiry.
When asked for four paragraphs in another work, Bard supplied nine. Krawczyk gave his opinion by clicking the thumbs-down button after that response.
We want to be extremely thoughtful about the speed at which we roll this out because we are aware of the limits of the technology, he added.
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