Exclusive Google’s ‘Bard’ chatbot rips ‘monopoly power’ of search giant, says DOJ ‘should prevail’ in antitrust trial

Google is pushing ahead with its Bard chatbot despite reports that suggest employees repeatedly criticized the chatbot and labeled it “a pathological liar.” Google has reportedly sidelined ethical concerns to keep up with rivals like OpenAI and Microsoft. In our tests comparing Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT, we found Google’s Bard chatbot to be less accurate than its rivals. Today’s announcement comes a few weeks after Google opened up its generative AI search experience to teenagers. The AI-powered search experience, also known as SGE (Search Generative Experience), introduces a conversational mode to Google Search where you can ask Google questions about a topic in a conversational manner. One notorious example of this was YouTube’s integration with Google+, which led to the site being flooded with spam.

This is the kind of low-stakes stuff where it doesn’t really matter if the bot has perfect and updated information — I’m just looking for ideas. What’s really dumb about Bard in these situations, though, is that it doesn’t provide links to anything unless it’s quoting from a source directly. (The only time I’ve seen citations so far was in the cookie recipe.) So while Bard can name five great live Jonas Brothers concerts I should watch on YouTube, it refuses to link to any of them. As far as I can tell, it’s also a noticeably worse tool than Bing, at least when it comes to surfacing useful information from around the internet.

Google opens early access to Bard, its AI chatbot

“What is still far from clear is if there is an adverse ruling, what kind of changes to the search market structure the judge thinks might solve the monopoly issue,” the analysts said. In April, Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted some of the company’s AI programs had developed so-called “emergent properties” – such as one strange instance in which a tool gained the ability to translate the Bengali language despite never being “taught” the dialect. Oddly, when Bard is prompted with the text of Google’s opening statement from the trial and asked the same question about whether it agrees or disagrees with the core arguments, the chatbot sides with Google. The chatbot cited several specific examples of what it described as “Google’s anti-competitive behavior” referenced in the case, including its default search deals with Apple and Mozilla.

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When Google announced its intention to launch a chatbot last month, Bard incorrectly answered a question during a promotional video, Reuters reported. The mistake scared some investors and coincided with a rout for the share price of Google’s parent company Alphabet, erasing $100 billion from Alphabet’s market value. Put your brand in front of 10,000+ tech and VC leaders across all three days of Disrupt 2025. Amplify your reach, spark real connections, and lead the innovation charge. But if the AI is unsure, the sentence may be highlighted in orange to indicate that it knows this part of the answer might be wrong.

Google also plans to begin incorporating LaMDA and other artificial intelligence advancements into its dominant search engine to provide more helpful answers to the increasingly complicated questions being posed by its billion of users. Without providing a specific timeline, Pichai indicated the artificial intelligence tools will be deployed in Google’s search soon. Google first teased Bard back in February in what was seemingly a rushed response to the snowballing success of ChatGPT, a super-smart search engine/chatbot that leans on large language models (LLMs) to generate fresh content from simple prompts. ChatGPT is the handiwork of OpenAI, an AI company with heavy backing from Google rival Microsoft. “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,” the Google blog post reads.

Google’s testing potential ChatGPT rivals including a homegrown AI chatbot called ‘Apprentice Bard’: CNBC

Google introduced its own AI technology dubbed Bard on February 7th, 2023, with the intention of competing with OpenAI’s popular language model, ChatGPT-3. Now that OpenAI released GPT-4 for its ChatGPT Plus consumers, the tech giant is speeding the development of Bard. A recent report reveals Google employees are testing a better version of improved version named “Big Bard”. Let’s dive into the details of what the future of AI ChatBots holds for users and how giants are competing with each other to take the lead. Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean), easier ways to export text to Google Docs and Gmail, visual search, and a dark mode. Most significantly, the company is removing the waitlist for Bard and making the system available in English in 180 countries and territories.

The future looks promising with this new trend of AI tools emerging from left, right, and center. Top tech giants are in the fight to take the lead with massive data, and among them, Google has a possibility of leaping to success. However, the launch first-debug later strategy of OpenAI is providing them benefits for now. When ChatGPT was first released, it was open to the public for testing, and anyone interested could simply access the program via OpenAI’s website.

Although the tool is still in the initial testing phase, the company has not yet made it available to the public, and only a chosen number of people have access to it. Not just that, few employees in the development team have access to a better version of Bard for internal testing. Bard’s surprise response comes as Google scrambles to stave off a court ruling that could upend its business model. The DOJ alleges Google each year pays billions of dollars – including a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 alone – to partners like Apple and AT&T to ensure its search engine is the default for most devices and maintain a 90% market share. Users will access Bard through a separate website from the Google search engine, Google said, in an effort to separate the source of much of the company’s revenue from the experimental technology that has been prone to problems at other companies. Google announced Bard’s existence less than two weeks after Microsoft disclosed it’s pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI, the San Francisco-based maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images.

The chatbot uses a lightweight version of Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Application (LaMDA). According to Pichai, Bard is only available for testing by a few users, but it will soon be made available to the public. According to Tech Insider’s recent report, Google employees are already internally testing a superior version of Bard named Big Bard. The new version of chatbot provides more human-like responses because it uses larger parameters that make it more intelligent.

• Google first teased Bard back in February in what was seemingly a rushed response to the snowballing success of ChatGPT, a super-smart search engine/chatbot that leans on large language models (LLMs) to generate fresh content from simple prompts.
• Google announced Tuesday, March 21, 2023, it’s allowing more people to interact with “Bard,” the …
• The company says it eventually wants to support third-party services through this same Extensions model, but wants to first test and learn from the feature using its own first-party apps and services.
• Teens who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account will be able to access the chatbot in English, with support for more languages to come in the future.

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Google is opening up access to Bard, its conversational AI tool, to teens in most countries around the world. Teens who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account will be able to access the chatbot in English, with support for more languages to come in the future. The expanded launch comes with “safety features and guardrails” to protect teens, Google says. If you’re already using tools like ChatGPT, you may be unaware of the cost each query contributes to OpenAi’s expenses; it’s roughly 0.36 cents.