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Google has launched its Bard chat­bot.

 

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Google has launched its Bard chat­bot in a move to rival OpenAI’s pop­u­lar Chat­GPT, as it seeks to make up lost ground in the race to com­mer­cial­ise gen­er­at­ive arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence tech­no­logy. Google said that Bard, which provides answers to text­based ques­tions, will be run sep­ar­ately from its Google Search engine. In recent weeks, gen­er­at­ive AI has also been integ­rated into widely used pro­ductiv­ity applic­a­tions, such as Google’s Work­space includ­ing Google Docs and Gmail, and Microsoft’s Office 365 soft­ware, as well as into pop­u­lar apps such as Duolingo, allow­ing mil­lions of people to start inter­act­ing with the tech­no­logy. «We want to get feed­back and gradu­ally phase up the num­ber of people who have access to Bard, and the reason for that is we want to be able to test and learn from that before we roll it out very widely,» said Zoubin Ghahramani, vice-pres­id­ent of Google Research.

Bard is built on top of Google’s AI tech­no­logy known as LaMDA, or Lan­guage Model for Dia­logue Applic­a­tions, and was trained on text data taken from the open web. It is also groun­ded in Google Search res­ults, an extra layer of train­ing that means it is less likely to con­tra­dict itself with incor­rect inform­a­tion. Crit­ics say Google is hemmed in by its hugely prof­it­able search busi­ness, which dis­cour­ages it from intro­du­cing gen­er­at­ive AI because of its abil­ity to sum­mar­ise search res­ults into a single answer.

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  1. Patrick22 March 2023 at 10:35

    I've noticed some changes to Duolingo (good changes) and I'm much more excited to continue learning a new language now than I was before. I didn't know they'd added AI to the mix but it seems like a good addition. As for Bard it remains to be seen if it works well or not. I feel Google can sometimes rush things to market without proper testing them.

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    1. Adam22 March 2023 at 11:51

      Yes Google does rush some things but it's also a good way to test them: by letting people use them and seeing what doesn't work. Google will have to find a way to make AI work with it's hugely profitable search business, so one doesn't step on the toes of the other. It will be interesting to see what happens.

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    2. Joe22 March 2023 at 11:58

      Indeed, Google needs to be extra careful that AI doesn't offer the answer to everything on their search page. That would mean people won't click ads or won't click on sites that are ranked on page 1. And the companies and small businesses won't want to invest in ads anymore.

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