Google invites users to try the Bard chatbot

According to The Guardian, this is considered a crucial moment for Google as its leading search application risks being overtaken by competitors' artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, even if those chatbots are not yet perfect in providing accurate and useful results.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this public trial follows a trial of the Bard chatbot with 80,000 Google employees, and is the first step before the chatbot launches in more countries and languages.

Google mời dùng thử chatbot Bard - đối thủ của ChatGPT - Ảnh 1.

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According to Mr. Pichai, user feedback is crucial for improving the product and underlying technology. Currently, the Bard chatbot can receive and respond to questions and requests in standard English, and is capable of providing creative answers to difficult questions. From March 21st, users can register for access through a waiting list on the company's website.

Google only announced the Bard chatbot in February as a response to the phenomenal success of ChatGPT, although it had been preparing for this technology for a long time. A few days after Google's announcement, Microsoft went further, revealing and launching Bing Chat, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 language model.

Unlike those two systems, Bard is based on Google's own language model, called LaMDA, which gained attention in June 2022 after an engineer named Blake Lemoine was temporarily suspended from his job when he said the chatbot he was helping develop had become "sensible," beginning to think and reason like a real child.

On March 22, Reuters reported that rapid technological advancements such as the artificial intelligence (AI) application ChatGPT are further complicating efforts by European Union (EU) lawmakers to agree on landmark AI laws.

The European Commission proposed draft rules nearly two years ago aimed at protecting citizens from the dangers of emerging technologies, which have experienced a boom in investment and consumer adoption in recent months.

The draft needs to be discussed between EU countries and EU lawmakers before the rules can become law.

Some lawmakers had expected to reach a consensus on the 108-page bill last month at a meeting in Strasbourg, France. But a five-hour meeting on February 13 failed to produce a solution, with disagreements on various aspects of the proposed legislation, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Although an agreement is expected to be reached by the end of this year, there are concerns that the complexity and lack of progress could delay the legislation until next year.

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