Google Opens Up Access to Bard AI Chatbot

[MacRumors]

Google today began allowing users to sign up to use Bard, its AI-powered chatbot that rivals Microsoft's Bing chatbot. First announced back in February, Bard is an experimental conversational AI service for Google Search.

Those interested in Bard can join Google's waitlist to get access, and some users have reported getting invitation emails just hours after signing up. There are a long list of sample functions that Google says Bard can perform:

• Explain why lightning might strike in the same place twice
• Help you write your first novel
• Draft a packing list for your weekend trip
• Outline a blogpost about your summer mocktail recipes
• Explain why large language models might make mistakes
• Generate an art studio tagline
• Suggest high-protein options to add to a vegan diet

Bard beta access is limited to the United States and UK at the current time, and there is an unknown wait time. Google does not allow Google Workspace accounts to request an invitation.

According to Google, Bard is using a "lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA," so the chatbot will offer a different experience than the OpenAI-powered Bing chat interface.

Bard is not designed to replace Google Search, and Google instead says it is "complementary." Google warns that Bard learns from a wide range of information that includes real-world biases and stereotypes, so the chatbot can provide inaccurate, misleading, or false information. It will improve over time based on feedback, and Google plans to add capabilities like coding and more languages in the future.

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[ChaosBlaze]

According to Google, Bard is using a "lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA," so the chatbot will offer a different experience than the OpenAI-powered Bing chat interface.

Signed up! I'm excited to see the difference in capabilities between Bard and chatGPT and Bing. Google has been working on this for a long time. As a software dev, I'm curious if Bard can stand up to the stuff Github Copilot and chatGPT are able to generate.

 

[mystery hill]

Bard. Who comes up with these names?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

First, Bard? What kinda name is that?

Secondly, Google Bard can’t write a function that adds two numbers.

 

[no_idea]

I mean…what else does a company with $1.4T market cap do in a situation like this…rush a sub par chat bot out the window. I think this is fair to say this is Google’s Siri moment 😅

 

[rafark]

We need an ai that sources its data from reputable books and universities only. That’d truly be a game changer.

 

[tothemoonsands]

“Explain why large language models might make mistakes”

This legitimately made me laugh. Tell me you are nervous about being behind without telling me… 😂

 

[VampyricGentleman]

Of course not available to those of us who have grandfathered g-suite accounts… oh well

 

[Warped9]

2023—the birth of Skynet?

 

[sorgo †]

Oh hell no....

 

[SBlue1]

We need an ai that sources its data from reputable books and universities only. That’d truly be a game changer.

I just had an hour long chat about physics inside stars with ChatGPT and I asked a few times for sources to double check its answers and sources seemed to be credible to me. It would be great if it would have access to recent scientific papers as well. Or imagine it having the all the microfilms of newspapers from the beginning of the 20th century so you could ask what the weather was like in New York when the Hindenburg Zeppelin exploded or what was the top 10 headlines in newspapers the day the Titanic sank.

Didn't some museum collect tens of thousands of letters soldiers sent home during WW1, so imagine asking what did the regular person think of the war in the first weeks in comparison to the last year.

 

[CapitalIdea]

There’s a typo in the article. It refers to Bard as a “rival” to ChatGPT. Given the demo, that’s quite a stretch even for a generous writer.

 

[klasma]

From what I’ve seen so far, it seems to be rather poor in comparison to ChatGPT.

 

[klasma]

Bard. Who comes up with these names?

It makes me think of how the bard in Asterix always ended up:

 

[tothemoonsands]

I just had an hour long chat about physics inside stars with ChatGPT and I asked a few times for sources to double check its answers and sources seemed to be credible to me. It would be great if it would have access to recent scientific papers as well. Or imagine it having the all the microfilms of newspapers from the beginning of the 20th century so you could ask what the weather was like in New York when the Hindenburg Zeppelin exploded or what was the top 10 headlines in newspapers the day the Titanic sank.

Didn't some museum collect tens of thousands of letters soldiers sent home during WW1, so imagine asking what did the regular person think of the war in the first weeks in comparison to the last year.

We are on the precipice of a major technological leap. Specialized AIs will soon emerge and then eventually consolidate. The improvements with each iteration are going to rapidly accelerate. I’m very optimistic with what this could do to world’s GDP, but also efficiency in terms of environmental sustainability. There will surely be some dystopian effects of this technology, but the good outweighs the bad.

 

[Schnapps]

Not available in Australia as yet it would appear.

 

[Michael Scrip]

I wonder if AI chatbot technology will be at the level of importance as something like the smartphone?

Or will it be the next 3D TV ?

🤔

 

[vegetassj4]

When it writes something silly, try pronouncing it in Homer's voice: Bard, why you little!

 

[SBlue1]

We are on the precipice of a major technological leap. Specialized AIs will soon emerge and then eventually consolidate. The improvements with each iteration are going to rapidly accelerate. I’m very optimistic with what this could do to world’s GDP, but also efficiency in terms of environmental sustainability. There will surely be some dystopian effects of this technology, but the good outweighs the bad.

I am sure it will be a game changer in the same unforeseen ways the internet changed our society. Imagine telling the guy who invented the www about todays kids filming themselves doing dumb stuff to impress strangers they never saw in real live. LOL! I can see a lot I could do with AI that would benefit me, I had some fun with Chat GPT and listed a ton of stuff I learned or asked for help or suggestions in the other thread.

Negative things I can think of is kids forgetting how to learn things because instead of using AI for research kids just let the AI write their homework. Or kids not learning new languages because their AirPods translating what the other person says in real time.

And I am sure there will be ways to abuse these things with teaching it wrong facts about history or politics. Or hacking its knowledge just for the fun like wikipedia vandalism.

 

[SBlue1]

I wonder if AI chatbot technology will be at the level of importance as something like the smartphone?

Or will it be the next 3D TV ?

🤔

Tell ChatGPT what you got in your fridge and what you can do for dinner with that. Ask what physics experiments you can do when it rains and your kids are bored just with things from your household. Ask how to spice up your Lasagne if you like Chinese food. You just watched a James Bong movie, just ask to invent a cocktail that could be coming straight out of the movie. Ask for a simple fun poem for your kids. Ask for a nice easy ukulele chord progression that your kids could play along and make a song with that lyrics.

I don't think AI will go away once people find out it what they can do with it and use it daily.

 

[Michael Scrip]

One person uses a chatbot to read a bunch of work emails and writes an AI generated response.

Then that person does the same and replies with another AI generated response.

Pretty soon it's just chatbots replying to other chatbots.

🤣

 

[Michael Scrip]

Tell ChatGPT what you got in your fridge and what you can do for dinner with that. Ask what physics experiments you can do when it rains and your kids are bored just with things from your household. Ask how to spice up your Lasagne if you like Chinese food. You just watched a James Bong movie, just ask to invent a cocktail that could be coming straight out of the movie. Ask for a simple fun poem for your kids. Ask for a nice easy ukulele chord progression that your kids could play along and make a song with that lyrics.

I don't think AI will go away once people find out it what they can do with it and use it daily.

Excellent. Thank you. 👍

I haven't gotten the chance to play with it yet which is why I had questions. Sometimes "the next big thing" isn't really.

But it sounds chatbots do have a future... unlike 3DTV where it was the hot stuff at one CES and then no one ever talked about it again.

🤣

 

[burgman]

We are on the precipice of a major technological leap. Specialized AIs will soon emerge and then eventually consolidate. The improvements with each iteration are going to rapidly accelerate. I’m very optimistic with what this could do to world’s GDP, but also efficiency in terms of environmental sustainability. There will surely be some dystopian effects of this technology, but the good outweighs the bad.

Hackers are creating malware with ChatGPT and others are writing phishing emails. I get the optimism but there is a reason we can’t have nice things. People suck…

 

[bmac89]

Is the name a typo? Shouldn’t it be called Google Barf!

 

[Leon Ze Professional]

So basically, Bard has got it's AI Learning plates on? Right, how long will it's probation be?