After months of public chatter about emerging chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, Google is launching its Bard AI platform to a limited number of users. Google opens Bard A.I. for testing by users in U.S. and UK.
The company is officially allowing people in the U.S. and U.K. to sign up for its generative AI product at bard.google.com. Google said in a blog post Tuesday that it will be expanding availability over time to more countries and languages.
The post, titled “Try Bard and share your feedback,” was authored by Sissie Hsiao, product vice president, and Eli Collins, research vice president. “You can use Bard to boost your productivity, accelerate your ideas and fuel your curiosity,” they wrote.
“You might ask Bard to give you tips to reach your goal of reading more books this year, explain quantum physics in simple terms, or spark your creativity by outlining a blog post.
We’ve learned a lot so far by testing Bard, and the next critical step in improving it is to get feedback from more people.” Testers will need to sign in with a Google account.
Google is putting in place some guardrails to try and ensure that conversations between users and the AI don’t spin out of control. Google opens Bard A.I. for testing by users in U.S. and UK.
The company said it would cap the number of exchanges in dialogue “to try to keep interactions helpful and on topic.” However, it won’t limit the number of daily chats, a spokesperson said.
Bard will display three different drafts of each response, the company said in a briefing, confirming sources reporting from earlier this month. Google expects the testing phase to help it understand how often people engage with Bard.
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