Bard-aboom! Google drops its AI chatbot, now available in UK and US

“You can use Bard to boost your productivity, accelerate your ideas and fuel your curiosity. 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,” said the company in its March 21 statement.

Powered by its in-house large language model (LLM) - LaMDA, the chatbot will generate a response one word at a time, by selecting from words likely to come next. Google highlighted that although Bard can convincingly present ideas, it will not always get them right.

Among the plethora of information out there, the chatbot is bound to pick up on real-world biases and stereotypes and reflect the same in its output. It also has a warning at the bottom of the chat window: ‘Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information that doesn’t represent Google’s views.’ 

However, the company says as more and more people use it, the better Bard will get at predicting helpful responses.

Calling it a complimentary experience to its search engine, Google will eventually be integrating LLMs into Search in a more profound way. The statement further said, “Bard is designed so that you can easily visit Search to check its responses or explore sources across the web. Click “Google it" to see suggestions for queries, and Search will open in a new tab so you can find relevant results and dig deeper.”