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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Google has begun the public release of its chatbot Bard, seeking users and feedback to gain ground on Microsoft in a fast-moving race in artificial intelligence technology.<\/b><\/p>\n

Starting in the US and UK, consumers can join a waiting list for English-language access to Bard, a program previously open to approved testers only. Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.<\/p>\n

The release last year of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed start-up OpenAI, has caused a sprint in the technology sector to put AI into more users\u2019 hands. The hope is to reshape how people work and win business in the process.<\/p>\n

Just last week, Google and Microsoft made a flurry of announcements on AI, two days apart. The companies are putting draft-writing technology into their word processors and other collaboration software, as well as marketing related tools for Web developers to build their own AI-based applications.<\/p>\n

Asked whether competitive dynamics were behind Bard\u2019s roll-out, Jack Krawczyk, a senior product director, said Google was focused on users. Internal and external testers have turned to Bard for \u201cboosting their productivity, accelerating their ideas, really fuelling their curiosity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a demonstration of the site bard.google.com, Krawczyk showed how the program produces blocks of text in an instant, different from how ChatGPT types out answers word by word.<\/p>\n

Bard also included a feature showing three different versions or \u201cdrafts\u201d of any given answer among which users could toggle, and it displayed a button stating \u201cGoogle it\u201d should a user desire Web results for a query.<\/p>\n

Unlike ChatGPT, Bard is not proficient in generating computer code, Google said on its website. Google also said it has limited Bard\u2019s memory of past exchanges in a chat and that at present it was not using Bard for advertising, core to Google\u2019s business model.<\/p>\n

Accuracy remains a concern. \u201cBard will not always get it right,\u201d a Google pop-up notice warned during the demo. Last month, a promotional video showed the program answering a question incorrectly, helping shave $100-billion off Google parent Alphabet\u2019s market value.<\/p>\n

Google highlighted a couple of mistakes during the demonstration, for instance saying Bard wrongly claimed ferns required bright, indirect light in response to one query.<\/p>\n

Bard also produced nine paragraphs of text when asked for four in another. After that answer, Krawczyk clicked a thumbs-down button for feedback.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the limitations of the technology, and so we want to be very deliberate at the pace at which we roll this out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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