Google’s Bard experiment, and Ernie Bot’s rehabilitation

Google has launched Bard, the search big’s reply to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. In contrast to Bing Chat, Bard doesn’t lookup search outcomes—all the knowledge it returns is generated by the mannequin itself. However it’s nonetheless designed to assist customers brainstorm and reply queries. Google needs Bard to turn out to be an integral a part of the Google Search expertise.

The corporate is now making the chatbot accessible without spending a dime to early customers who signal as much as a waitlist, to assist check and enhance the expertise in what they are saying remains to be an experiment. 

However specialists fear that pitching Bard as an experiment is a PR trick that bigger corporations use to achieve hundreds of thousands of shoppers whereas additionally eradicating themselves from accountability if something goes mistaken. Learn the complete story.

—Will Douglas Heaven

The bearable mediocrity of Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor

When Baidu revealed Ernie Bot final week, the primary Chinese language rival to ChatGPT was met with an nearly overwhelming wave of disappointment. Chinese language publications with testing entry ridiculed the chatbot’s efficiency, social media customers mocked it with memes, and Baidu’s inventory dropped by 6.4%.

However a curious factor has occurred since final week’s launch: Ernie Bot’s repute appears to have bounced again. Extra Chinese language reporters gained entry to the chatbot, and there’s been a common realization that Ernie Bot might be ok for the Chinese language market. Learn the complete story.