Google Launches New AI Chatbot Tool “Bard” To Compete With ChatGPT 

According to reports, Google is opening up access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool that competes directly with ChatGPT.

Users can join a waitlist to gain access to Bard, which promises to help users outline and write essay drafts, plan a friend's baby shower, and get lunch ideas based on what's in the fridge, beginning Tuesday .

According to a company representative, it will be a separate, complementary experience to Google Search, and users can still visit Search to check its responses or sources. In a blog post, Google stated that it intends to "thoughtfully" add large language models to search "in a deeper way" in the future.

Google told a news agency that the tool would first be available in the United States and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand it to more countries and languages in the future.
The announcement comes as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other technology companies race to develop and deploy AI-powered tools in the aftermath of ChatGPT's recent viral success. Google announced last week that AI would be introduced to its productivity tools, including Gmail, Sheets, and Docs. Microsoft announced a similar AI upgrade to its productivity tools shortly after.

Google unveiled Bard last month in a demo that was later called out for incorrectly answering a question about a telescope. Alphabet, Google's parent company, fell 7.7 percent that day, erasing USD 100 billion from its market value.

Bard, like ChatGPT, which was publicly released in late November by AI research firm OpenAI, is based on a large language model. These models, according to the news, are trained on massive amounts of data collected online in order to generate compelling responses to user prompts. The overpowering attention in ChatGPT prompted Google's management to declare a "code red" situation for its search business.

However, Bard's blunder highlighted the difficulty Google and other companies face in incorporating the technology into their core products. According to the news large language models can have a number of issues, including perpetuating biases, being factually incorrect, and responding aggressively.

Google admitted in a blog post on Tuesday that AI tools are "not without their faults." According to the company, it continues to use human feedback to improve its systems and implement new "guardrails, like capping the number of exchanges in a dialogue, to try to keep interactions helpful and on topic."

According to news, OpenAI released GPT-4, the next-generation version of the technology that powers ChatGPT and Microsoft's new Bing browser, last week with similar safeguards. GPT-4 astounded many users in early tests and a company demo on the first day it was unveiled, with its ability to draft lawsuits, pass standardized exams, and build a working website from a hand-drawn sketch.