According to The Guardian, this is considered a decisive moment for Google in the context that their leading search application is at risk of being surpassed by competitors' artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, even when those chatbots are not yet perfect in returning accurate and useful results.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the public test, which comes after testing the Bard chatbot with 80,000 Google employees, is the first step before the chatbot rolls out to more countries and more languages.
Google office in New York - Photo: REUTERS
According to Mr. Pichai, user feedback is very important to improve the product and the underlying technology. Currently, the Bard chatbot can receive questions and requests and respond in normal English, and is capable of giving creative answers to difficult questions. From March 21, 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 overwhelming success of ChatGPT, despite having been working on the 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 made headlines in June 2022 after an engineer named Blake Lemoine was placed on administrative leave after he said the chatbot he was working on became "sentient," starting to think and reason like a real child.
Rapid technological advances such as the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) application are complicating efforts by European Union (EU) lawmakers to agree on landmark AI laws, Reuters reported on March 22.
The European Commission proposed draft rules nearly two years ago aimed at protecting citizens from the risks of emerging technologies, which have seen a boom in investment and consumer popularity in recent months.
The draft needs to be put through the paces 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 during a meeting in Strasbourg, France. But a five-hour meeting on Feb. 13 failed to resolve disagreements over various aspects of the proposed legislation, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
While a deal is expected to be reached by the end of this year, there are concerns that complexity and lack of progress could delay the legislation until next year.
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