Google is opening up access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool that directly competes with ChatGPT.

Starting Tuesday, users can join a waitlist to gain access to Bard, which promises to help users outline and write essay drafts, plan a friend’s baby shower, and get lunch ideas based on what’s in the fridge.

A company representative said it will be a separate, complementary experience to Google Search, and users can also visit Search to check its responses or sources. Google said in a blog post it plans to “thoughtfully” add large language models to search “in a deeper way” at a later time.

Google said it will start rolling out the tool in the United States and United Kingdom, and plans to expand it to more countries and languages in the future.

The news comes as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other tech companies race to develop and deploy AI-powered tools in the wake of the recent, viral success of ChatGPT. Last week, Google announced it is also bringing AI to its productivity tools, including Gmail, Sheets and Docs. Shortly after, Microsoft announced a similar AI upgrade to its productivity tools.

Google unveiled Bard last month in a demo that was later called out for providing an inaccurate response to a question about a telescope. Shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet fell 7.7% that day, wiping US$100 billion off its market value.

Like ChatGPT, which was released publicly in late November by AI research company OpenAI, Bard is built on a large language model. These models are trained on vast troves of data online in order to generate compelling responses to user prompts. The immense attention on ChatGPT reportedly prompted Google’s management to declare a “code red” situation for its search business.

Google acknowledged in the blog post Tuesday that AI tools are “not without their faults.” The company said it continues to use human feedback to improve its systems and add new “guardrails, like capping the number of exchanges in a dialogue, to try to keep interactions helpful and on topic.”

Last week, OpenAI released GPT-4, the next-generation version of the technology that powers ChatGPT and Microsoft’s new Bing browser, with similar safeguards. In the first day after it was unveiled, GPT-4 stunned many users in early tests and a company demo with its ability to draft lawsuits, pass standardized exams and build a working website from a hand-drawn sketch.

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【迎婴派对】yíngyīng pàiduì baby shower a party held for a woman who is expecting a baby, to which friends and relatives bring gifts for the child

【激动人心的】jīdòng rénxīn de compelling evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way

谷歌开放了对巴德的访问，这款新的AI聊天机器人工具直接与ChatGPT竞争。

从周二开始，用户可以加入候补名单访问巴德，它能帮助用户撰写论文提纲和草稿，策划朋友的迎婴派对，并根据冰箱里的存货提供午餐创意。

一位公司代表表示，这将提供独立于谷歌搜索的互补体验，用户可以访问搜索来核实AI回复及信息来源。谷歌在一篇博客文章中表示，计划未来将“深思熟虑地”把大型语言模型深度融合到搜索功能。

谷歌表示将开始在美国和英国推出该工具，并计划未来扩展到更多国家和语种。

因为ChatGPT最近取得了风靡一时的成功，谷歌、微软、Facebook和其他科技公司竞相开发和部署人工智能工具。上周，谷歌宣布也将人工智能引入其办公软件，包括Gmail，Sheets和Docs。不久后微软也宣布对其软件进行类似的AI升级。

谷歌上个月公开演示了巴德，因对一个关于望远镜的问题提供不准确的回答受到批评。谷歌母公司Alphabet的股价当天下跌7.7%，市值蒸发1000亿美元。

与人工智能研究公司OpenAI11月下旬公开发布的ChatGPT一样，巴德建立在大型语言模型之上。这些模型利用大量在线数据训练AI，从而对用户提出的问题给出不一般的回答。据报道，对ChatGPT的巨大关注促使谷歌管理层宣布其搜索业务处于“红色警戒”状态。

谷歌周二在博客文章中承认，人工智能工具“并非没有缺点”。该公司表示，它会根据用户反馈不断改进系统，并增加新的“保护措施，例如限制单次对话的交流次数，以保证互动的有效性和不跑题”。

上周，OpenAI发布了GPT-4，这是为ChatGPT和微软新版必应浏览器提供支持的下一代技术，具有类似的保护措施。揭幕的第一天，GPT-4 在测试和公司演示中起草诉讼、通过标准化考试并根据手绘草图建构工作网站，其丰富的功能震惊了许多用户。

(SD-Agencies)