Google's AI chatbot Bard will start to go live today, but it will only be accessible to a select group of people who are at least 18 years old.
Unlike its viral rival ChatGPT, it has a "Google it" button that accesses search and can acquire current information from the internet.
Additionally, it cites Wikipedia and other fact-checking websites.
Google, however, forewarned that Bard would have "limitations" and that it might disseminate false information and exhibit bias.
This is due to the fact that it "learns" from information that comes from the actual world, where those prejudices are still present. As a result, it is possible for stereotypes and erroneous information to appear in its responses.
Microsoft has made significant investments in it and last month added the product to its Bing search engine.
It has also made plans to integrate the technology into its office suite of programs, which includes Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
With its version, Bard, which initially debuts in the US and UK, Google has been a slower and more cautious runner in the generative AI race. To use it, users must first sign up.
Bard is a descendant of Google's previous Lamda language paradigm, which was never completely made available to the general public. When one of the engineers who worked on it asserted that its responses were so convincing that he considered it to be sentient, it did, however, garner a lot of attention. He was let go after Google rejected the accusations.
