Subj : Google Bard is now live here are our first impressions of the Cha
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Date : Tue Mar 21 2023 17:15:03

Google Bard is now live here are our first impressions of the ChatGPT rival

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Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:10:17 +0000

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Google Bard, its answer to ChatGPT, has just gone live in beta form here are 
all of our early impressions.

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Google Bard, the search giant's answer to ChatGPT, has officially flung open 
its doors to beta users and we've managed to jostle our way to the front of 
the queue to have some lengthy conversations with the AI chatbot. 

If you missed the news, Google Bard is now an open beta, which means anyone 
can now sign up for access with a personal Gmail account. That queue is now 
likely pretty long, but fortunately we've managed to get access  and have 
been having the time of our tech lives flinging questions at Google's new 
AI-powered brain for our hands-on Google Bard review . 

Google has been very cautious about Bard's early prospects, calling it an 
"early experiment" and, with a slight nod to ChatGPT , stating that "they can 
provide inaccurate, misleading or false information while presenting it 
confidently". That is the reality of today's Large Language Models (LLMs), 
which Google says are more like "prediction engines" than replacements for 
Google Search. 

But that doesn't mean they also aren't a lot of fun to play around, 
particularly when it comes to sparking creative ideas and that's exactly what 
we've been doing in the hours since Google Bard beta was opened up publicly 
for the first time. 

If you're keen to get a taste of what Bard can do before you get your own 
Beta access, have a good read of this regularly-updated liveblog with all our 
of favorite answers, mistakes and oddities from Google's AI chatbot so far. 
(Image credit: Future) 

Before we get stuck into our fascinating conversations with Google Bard, 
here's a reminder of how to get access. 

If you have a personal Gmail account (work accounts aren't currently 
compatible), you can now sign up for Google Bard waitlist . It isn't yet 
clear how long that waitlist is, but even those who signed up 30 minutes 
after the opening of the public beta haven't yet gained access, so there may 
be a slight wait. 

While you do get a short poem from Bard to keep you amused, our early 
conversations are a bit more revealing about how Google's chatbot compares to 
ChatGPT. Let's get stuck into those... (Image credit: Future) 

As our hands-on Google Bard review points out, the Bard interface is really 
nice  and a step up from ChatGPT's functional but uninspiring layout. 

Like the new Bing , Bard is a conversational sidekick rather than a 
traditional search engine. You can restart conversations at any point and 
also edit questions  and Bard will also give you a button below its responses 
if there's extra info available. 

Starting off with simply questions like 'I want to write a novel, how do I 
get started?' (above), Bard serves up a solid list of tips (albeit without 
any citations for where it got the information from).



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/live/google-bard-is-now-live-here-are-our-first
-impressions-of-the-chatgpt-rival


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