Google has officially launched its own AI chatbot, Bard , which is set to rival the popular ChatGPT. However, unlike ChatGPT, Bard is only available to users over the age of 18 and is currently limited to the US and UK. While ChatGPT has been generating buzz since its launch in November 2022, Bard has been in development for some time. It is a descendant of Google’s earlier language model, Lambda, which was never fully released to the public. Lambda attracted attention when one of the engineers who worked on it claimed its answers were so compelling that he believed it was sentient. Google denied the claims and the engineer was fired. Bard is an experiment in generative AI, according to Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk. He hopes people will use it as a “launchpad for creativity” rather than a replacement for human intelligence. Bard is programmed not to respond to offensive prompts and has filters to prevent it from sharing harmful, illegal, sexually explicit, or pers...
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