Google has released the Bard AI Chatbot to the public with limited access. The Chatbot will be available across US and UK. There will be a waiting list for English-language access to Bard as it was previously open to approved testers only. 

Google has described Bard as a generative Artificial Intelligence Collaboration that relies on past data to create content. It is different from the Google search engine which only identifies and classifies content for its users as Bard will create original content. 

Unlike its rival ChatGPT which just provides a single answer to your questions, Bard will give several versions or drafts of its answer for you to choose from. Once you go through the drafts, you can then ask follow-up questions and if you are still not satisfied with the given options you can again ask the same question to get a different answer from Bard. Bard also comes with an additional cool feature the “Google it” button that will turn your prompt into a search engine-optimized question and direct it to Google Search.

Google has said that Bard can be used to boost your productivity, accelerate your ideas, and fuel your curiosity. The company will roll out the access to Bard in phases and soon plans to launch the Chatbot in other territories with different languages.

What is Google BARD?

Bard which literally means a storyteller, is an experimental AI-powered chatbot made by Google, that can respond to various queries and requests in a conversational manner. The Chatbot is designed to compete with OpenAIs ChatGPT. 

Bard uses LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) which is Google’s language model built on Transformer, a neural network architecture, which is the basis of several generative AI applications seen today.  LaMDA can predict the following words in a series based on the previous ones and can stimulate dialogue in a looser fashion than is typically allowed by task-based responses.

As of now, Google states that Bard is still in its experimental phase and as soon as you log in, you will get the warning message ‘Bard will not always get it right’. Though designed to compete with ChatGPT, the initial version is limited to text with no response to images or audio. Bard cannot be used for advanced tasks like coding but Google is working on these features and will roll out the same in due course.  

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