Alphabet unit stops short of integrating new conversational computer program into its search function Google is opening public access to the conversational computer program Bard, its answer to the viral chatbot ChatGPT, while stopping short of integrating the new tool into its flagship search engine.
After years of development, Google on Tuesday said it would expand access to Bard to a growing number of users in the US and UK.
The move intensifies the battle between Google and Microsoft Corp. to dominate the release of advanced artificial-intelligence tools that can be used to generate humanlike text responses.
The Alphabet Inc.-owned search giant also said Bard is still an "early experiment" that it would offer at a dedicated site, bard.google.com, instead of within its current products.
Bard is designed to respond to written prompts using information sourced from websites such as Wikipedia and can handle follow-up questions in a conversational manner, according to a demonstration shown to The Wall Street Journal.
Sissie Hsiao, a vice president in charge of Google Assistant, said the company would enroll users from a wait list on a rolling basis, without providing a specific timeline. Google said it plans to expand Bard's availability to additional countries and non-English languages.
A pioneer of the artificial-intelligence technology behind ChatGPT, Google has been slower than its rivals to release competing products, partly out of caution for how they could impact its dominant and lucrative search-advertising business.
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