It may take time, but the competition arrives! Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, has just released its chatbot of artificial intelligence in Europe and Brazil. This is the biggest expansion of Bard, the name given to the tool, since its launch in the United States and the United Kingdom, in March of this year, and it heats up the rivalry with ChatGPT, from Microsoft. Both are examples of generative AI, which can answer questions in a human way.
The launch of Bard in the EU has been delayed after the bloc’s main data regulator raised concerns about the privacy of the chatbot. The Irish Data Protection Commission said that Google has not provided enough information about how its generative AI tool protects the privacy of Europeans to justify an EU launch.
The company has since met with vigilantes to reassure them about issues related to transparency, choice and control. On a briefing With journalists, Amar Subramanya, Vice President of Engineering at Bard, added that users can choose not to share their data with the tool. The VP declined to comment on whether there were plans to develop a Bard app.
“Bard is an experiment. We want to be bold and responsible,” she said.
Bard can speak?
Google has also added new features to Bard that apply worldwide. This includes the ability of chatbot to speak responses to you and respond to prompts, which may also include images.
“Starting today, you can collaborate with Bard in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish. Sometimes hearing something out loud can help you approach your idea in a different way. This is especially useful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script,” Google Senior Director of Product Jack Krawczyk said in a blog post.
Also according to him, users can now change the tone and style of Bard’s responses to simple, long, short, professional or casual, and can also pin or rename conversations, export code to more places and use images in prompts.
investment wave
O hype around the capabilities of generative AI has led global tech figures to call for a halt to its development. Depending on who you talk to, AI could either lead to the end of humanity or solve climate change, or both.
Over the past six months, companies have invested billions in hopes of generating much more in advertising and cloud revenue. The Mistral AI, a startup with just a month to live, it secured an initial funding round of £86 million to build and train large language models.
This week, Elon Musk announced the formation of an AI startup called xAI, with a team that includes several engineers who worked at OpenAI and Google, even though he threatened to sue Meta for allegedly doing the same to develop Threads, a new company’s social network and direct competitor of Twitter, a platform owned by the billionaire. Musk has also previously stated that he believes developments in AI must be stopped and that the industry needs regulation.
Anthropic, an American AI company, was another that launched a chatbot rival to ChatGPT called Claude 2, which can summarize novel-sized blocks of text. Claude 2 is publicly available in the US and UK, and uses a security method described by the company as “Constitutional AI”, referring to a set of principles for making judgments about the text it is producing.
However, the appeal of novelties in chatbots of AI may be slowing down, with recent web user numbers showing that monthly traffic to the ChatGPT website and unique visitors dropped for the first time in June.
Google has also been hit with a new US class action lawsuit over alleged misuse of users’ personal information to train Bard. The complaint, filed in federal court in San Francisco by eight individuals seeking to represent millions of internet users and copyright holders, alleges that Google’s unauthorized extraction of data from websites violated its privacy and proprietary rights.
“Google does not own the internet, it does not own our creative works, it does not own our personality expressions, pictures of our families and children or anything else simply because we share it online,” said plaintiffs attorney Ryan Clarkson. .
* With information from the BBC
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