Google is opening access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool that directly competes with ChatGPT. Starting Tuesday, users can join a waitlist to gain access to Bard, which promises to help users from outlining and writing essay drafts to coming up with ideas for lunch based on what’s in the fridge.
A company representative told international website CNN that it will be a separate and complementary experience to Google Search, and users can also visit Search to check their answers or sources. Google said in a blog post that it plans to “thoughtfully” add large language models to search “in more depth” later.
Google said it will start rolling out the tool in the US and UK and plans to expand it to more countries and languages in the future.
The news comes as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other tech companies race to develop and deploy AI-powered tools after the recent viral success of ChatGPT. Last week, Google announced that it is also bringing AI to its productivity tools, including Gmail, Sheets and Docs. Shortly after, Microsoft announced a similar AI update to its productivity tools.
Google unveiled Bard last month in a demo that was later criticized for providing an inaccurate answer to a question. Shares of Alphabet, Google’s parent, fell 7.7% that day, shaving $100 billion from its market value.
Like ChatGPT, which was publicly released in late November by AI research firm OpenAI, Bard is built on a large language model. These models are trained on vast online databases to generate compelling responses to user prompts. The immense attention on ChatGPT reportedly prompted Google management to declare a “red alert” situation for its search business.
Last week, OpenAI released GPT-4, the next-gen version of the technology that powers ChatGPT and Microsoft’s new Bing browser, with similar protections. On the first day after its release, GPT-4 surprised many users in early tests and at a company demo with its ability to write lawsuits, pass standardized exams, and build a functional website from a hand-drawn sketch.
This article used as a source the writing by Samantha Murphy Kelly to the website CNN Business.
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