Google has officially opened the Bard chatbot to the public in the US and UK, and encourages users to test the product to contribute and give feedback to the company.
According to CNBC , search giant Google on March 21 began to open public access to its chatbot Bard, seeking feedback to catch up with Microsoft in the race for artificial intelligence technology.
“Starting today, users in the US and UK can sign up at bard.google.com. This is just the first step, and we will continue to roll out this feature to other countries and languages in the near future,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to employees. .
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Google encourages users to experience and give suggestions about the Bard chatbot. Photo: Getty Images . |
According to him, the test is necessary because in February 2023, Bard once cost parent company Alphabet nearly $ 100 billion in market capitalization when giving incorrect information in a promotional video. “User feedback is the most important thing when it comes to product improvement,” Pichai said.
Pichai also thanked the 80,000 Googlers who contributed to the Bard test in response to his call to action last month, which included a call for employees to rewrite. this chatbot’s poor quality replies.
Now, Google is continuing to invite 10,000 more trusted testers “with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives” to contribute to Bard’s journey.
It is known that Bard is powered by LaMDA – a large language model developed by Google. When active, the application will provide feedback drawn from information sources that Google considers “high-quality”, and unlike ChatGPT typing each word when responding, Bard can generate blocks instant text.
In addition, Google also said that it has limited Bard’s memory of the exchanges in each conversation, and the search company is not currently using Bard for advertising – which is at the core of Google’s business model. .
Like similar chatbots, Bard learns skills by analyzing data from around the internet. Therefore, this application can sometimes misinterpret facts and sometimes generate information without warning. Google says it has been working to limit this error, but the measures do not appear to be completely effective.
In its disclaimer, the company warned that “Bard may provide inaccurate or offensive responses, but they do not represent the views of Google.”
According to CNBC , after ChatGPT was released by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft, a fierce race in the field of artificial intelligence broke out, and many experts said that Google could not stay out of the trend.
However, when asked if competitive dynamics were behind Bard’s launch, Jack Krawczyk – Product Manager at Google – said the company was focused on the user.
“Bard testers – both internally and externally – say they like the app because “it enhances productivity, fosters creativity, and sparks curiosity,” and they I developed Bard to support users,” he asserted.
