Google Bard is Now Available for Users

Google is now making Bard, a rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT, available to a small test population. The enormous popularity of ChatGPT sparked a "code red" within Google, which forced the tech giant to rush out a product quite similar to it.

Subsequently, due to an incorrect result that demonstrated Google's AI powers and spewed out an AI-hallucination, Google's parent company shares quickly fell by $100 billion.

Google has chosen to allow select insiders to receive demos and provide a waitlist link for everyone else rather than a large, flashy general release at this time. The "Join waitlist" button on the Bard homepage lets you know if the account you're using is eligible and, if so, if you want to sign up for Bard news updates.

There is nothing you can do once you are on the waitlist other than wait for an email with the subject line "It's your turn to try Bard."

In the interim, "Bard Experiment" appears as the Bard logo on the official Bard homepage, and the FAQ page for Bard informs you that "Bard is experimental" and "some of the responses may be inaccurate."

"Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information that doesn't represent Google's views" is an additional warning located under the box where Bard users type prompts. These warnings are now commonplace on official AI chatbot information pages.

How does using Google's Bard AI chatbot work?

Users of ChatGPT and Bing will experience a familiar but distinct experience when actually chatting with Bard.

When writing essays, for instance, it might occasionally be a little repetitive in its word choices, according to the sources. It was still very creative and good at coming up with new ideas, but it was also unusually willing to spill potentially messy details in speculative prompts.

Most notably, the user can choose between three drafts of each prompt response that are included automatically. The four images produced by each prompt entered into OpenAI's Dalle-2 are brought to mind by this feature.

The New York Times says that Bard, like Bing's AI chatbot, provides citations for its responses "occasionally."

Further, as per The Edge, it observably battles very much like any remaining chatbots to respond to delicate inquiries. It also pointed to the widespread condemnation of the Russian occupation and provided some information about the Russian justification for annexing Crimea.