What Google Bard Can (and Can't) Do

Google has launched a new chatbot for a limited number of people in the United States and Great Britain. How does it compare to what's already out there?
Google has launched a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people at United States United States and Great Britain.
Bard competes with similar technologies from Microsoft and its partner, San Francisco startup OpenAI. But Google has been careful with its release as it tries to control the unexpected behavior exhibited by this type of technology. It deploys the chatbot as a service that operates separately from its Internet search engine and other products.
Here is a brief guide to the new bot:
He recognizes his faults.
Bard tells you right away that he makes mistakes. "I'm Bard, your creative and helpful collaborator. I have limits and won't always succeed, but your feedback will help me improve," reads a message at the top of the page.
Like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, Bard is based on a large language model, or L.L.M., a kind of A.I. technology that learns by analyzing large amounts of data on the Internet. This means that he sometimes makes mistakes and can make things up.
To start, Bard suggests a few prompts, including "Explain why the great language models sometimes make mistakes".It is designed for a range of casual uses.
Bard is not intended to be a search engine. an experimental system intended to show people how to use this type of chatbot.
It can generate ideas. It can write blog posts. And he can answer questions with facts or opinions.
When asked, "What is the most important moment in American history?" he wrote:
The most important moment in American history is a matter of opinion, but some of the most frequently cited contenders include:

• The American Revolution (1775-1783): the founding of the United States of America and the establishment of a new nation based on the principles of freedom and democracy.
• The Civil War (1861-1865): The war that ended slavery in the United States and preserved the Union.
• The Great Depression (1929 -1939): The economic crisis that plunged the United States into poverty and unemployment…
The list continued with other events.
It does not give the same answer each time.
Like similar technologies, Bard generates new text every time you enter a prompt. He can answer the same question in different ways.
When asked on another occasion about the most important moment in American history, Bard wrote that he s was undoubtedly about the American Revolution.
He annotates certain responses.
Like Microsoft's Bing chatbot and similar technology from start-ups like You.com and Proximity, Bard sometimes annotates his responses so you can review their sources. And it connects to Google's extensive website index so its answers can include the latest information posted on the internet.
But that doesn't always lead to better sources . When the chatbot wrote that the most important moment in American history was the American Revolution, it quoted a blog, "Pix Style Me," written in a mix of English and Chinese and adorned with cartoon cats .
It is. doesn't always realize what it's doing.
When asked why it cited that particular source, the bot insisted that it cited Wikipedia.

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Google has launched a new chatbot for a limited number of people in the United States and Great Britain. How does it compare to what's already out there?

Google has launched a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people at United States United States and Great Britain.

Bard competes with similar technologies from Microsoft and its partner, San Francisco startup OpenAI. But Google has been careful with its release as it tries to control the unexpected behavior exhibited by this type of technology. It deploys the chatbot as a service that operates separately from its Internet search engine and other products.

Here is a brief guide to the new bot:

He recognizes his faults.

Bard tells you right away that he makes mistakes. "I'm Bard, your creative and helpful collaborator. I have limits and won't always succeed, but your feedback will help me improve," reads a message at the top of the page.

Like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot, Bard is based on a large language model, or L.L.M., a kind of A.I. technology that learns by analyzing large amounts of data on the Internet. This means that he sometimes makes mistakes and can make things up.

To start, Bard suggests a few prompts, including "Explain why the great language models sometimes make mistakes".It is designed for a range of casual uses.

Bard is not intended to be a search engine. an experimental system intended to show people how to use this type of chatbot.

It can generate ideas. It can write blog posts. And he can answer questions with facts or opinions.

When asked, "What is the most important moment in American history?" he wrote:

The most important moment in American history is a matter of opinion, but some of the most frequently cited contenders include:

• The American Revolution (1775-1783): the founding of the United States of America and the establishment of a new nation based on the principles of freedom and democracy.

• The Civil War (1861-1865): The war that ended slavery in the United States and preserved the Union.

• The Great Depression (1929 -1939): The economic crisis that plunged the United States into poverty and unemployment…

The list continued with other events.

It does not give the same answer each time.

Like similar technologies, Bard generates new text every time you enter a prompt. He can answer the same question in different ways.

When asked on another occasion about the most important moment in American history, Bard wrote that he s was undoubtedly about the American Revolution.

He annotates certain responses.

Like Microsoft's Bing chatbot and similar technology from start-ups like You.com and Proximity, Bard sometimes annotates his responses so you can review their sources. And it connects to Google's extensive website index so its answers can include the latest information posted on the internet.

But that doesn't always lead to better sources . When the chatbot wrote that the most important moment in American history was the American Revolution, it quoted a blog, "Pix Style Me," written in a mix of English and Chinese and adorned with cartoon cats .

It is. doesn't always realize what it's doing.

When asked why it cited that particular source, the bot insisted that it cited Wikipedia.