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What Is Google Bard? Hands-on With the AI Chatbot

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  The AI chatbot trend was kicked off by   ChatGPT , and followed with   Microsoft’s Bing Chat . Google Bard is late to the game, but it has the world’s most popular search engine behind it. Does it have anything new to say? What Is Google Bard? Google Bard is a conversational AI chatbot—otherwise known as a “large language model”—similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It was trained on a massive dataset of text and code, which it uses to generate human-like text responses. That’s the key to  AI chatbots  like Bard: the training process. Bard uses machine learning to analyze text, then predicts the next word based on what it’s learned. It’s essentially very fancy predictive text. Bard puts words together in a way that mimics human speaking. Bard is powered by Google’s “LaMDA” (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) model. The same LaMDA that Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed had become sentient. LaMDA is responsible for Bard’s human-like re...

Bard, Google’s chatbot, Is Now Available For Testing In The US and UK

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 In the United States and the United Kingdom, Google has made its AI-powered chatbot Bard accessible for testing. Google made the change in an effort to catch up with rivals like the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. Bard and other such applications may produce essays, poetry, or computer code at will, but they come with a disclaimer that the results can be unreliable or improper. On Google Bard's website, interested people may join a waiting list to test the chatbot. Google Vice Presidents Sissie Hsiao and Eli Collins said in a blog post that the firm is seeking more input to enhance Bard's language prediction skills. They issued a warning that chatbots may respond inaccurately or with real-world prejudices or preconceptions. Despite this, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described the action as a "early experiment" in enabling human and generative AI collaboration. With its investment in OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, Microsoft has aggressively rolled out generative AI technologies...