Google Launches ChatGPT Rival In US, UK
Google on Tuesday invited people in the United States and Britain to test its AI chatbot, known as Bard, as it gets on its gradual path to catch up with Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.
Bard, ChatGPT and other similar artificial intelligence apps churn out essays, poems or computing code on command and have taken the world by storm as the biggest new thing in tech since the advent of the iPhone.
Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told staff that after testing Bard with 80,000 Google employees, the chatbot would be tested with the public in the US and Britain as a “first step” before going out to more countries in other languages.
“As more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities, they’ll surprise us,” Pichai said.
“Things will go wrong. But the user feedback is critical to improving the product and the underlying technology,” he added.
In the launch, people wishing to play with Bard can sign up on a waiting list at bard.google.com website, distinctly separate from the tech giant’s search engine.
