10 Things to know About Google Bard [2023]

Bard is an AI-powered chatbot that is designed to rival ChatGPT from Microsoft-backed OpenAI.

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Bard was tested by 80,000 Google employees before being rolled out to the public in the coming weeks3.

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Bard is powered by Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA)4.

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Bard generates a response by selecting, one word at a time, from words that are likely to come next4.

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Bard’s UI is bright and carries the Google motif5.

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Bard is designed to explain complex subjects such as outer space discoveries in terms simple enough for a child to understand4

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Bard is an experimental conversational AI service4

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Bard is supposed to be able to perform other more mundane tasks, such as providing tips for planning a party, or lunch ideas based on what food is left in a refrigerator4.

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Bard is accessible to a limited number of users in the US and UK while some Pixel Superfans have also been given a chance to try out the Google’s AI chatbot1.

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Bard is an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative A

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