Google Bard Will get New Options to Catch Up With Rival ChatGPT’s Recognition

Alphabet‘s Google stated on Tuesday that Bard, its generative synthetic intelligence, can have the power to fact-check its solutions and analyze customers’ private Google knowledge because the tech large scrambles to catch as much as ChatGPT in recognition.

The launch final yr of ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, sparked a race within the tech business to offer shoppers entry to generative AI know-how. At the time, ChatGPT was the fastest-growing client software ever and is now one of many high 30 web sites on the planet.

Bard has not taken off in the identical manner. In August, it obtained 183 million visits, 13 % of what ChatGPT obtained, in response to web site analytics agency Similarweb. 

As it seeks to achieve floor within the fast-moving AI area, Google is rolling out Bard Extensions, enabling customers to import their knowledge from different Google merchandise. For occasion, customers might ask Bard to look their recordsdata in Google Drive or present a abstract of the consumer’s Gmail inbox. For now, Bard customers will solely have the ability to pull info in from Google apps, however Google is working with exterior firms to attach their purposes into Bard sooner or later, Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk stated.

Another new function in Bard seeks to alleviate a nagging downside for generative AI: inaccurate responses referred to as “hallucinations”. Bard customers will have the ability to see which elements of Bard’s solutions differ from and agree with Google search outcomes. 

“We are presenting (Bard) in a way that it admits when it’s not confident,” Krawczyk stated, explaining that the intention is to construct customers’ belief in generative AI by holding Bard accountable.

A 3rd new function permits customers to ask others into Bard conversations.

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