Google Bard had some issues, Plan is to try again

Google to try again with GPT

Google promises to unleash more of Bard’s potential in the 'next week'

By David Nield published  ago

Like a "souped-up Civic"

Google Bard being used on a phone

Google Bard is currently available to test. 

It feels as though Google is playing catch up at the moment when it comes to the ChatGPT-powered AI that Microsoft has introduced to Bing – but Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that his company's own Bard bot is going to quickly get more capable.

In an interview with the NYT's Hard Fork (opens in new tab) podcast (via The Verge(opens in new tab)), Pichai said that Bard was currently like a "souped-up Civic" taking on "more powerful cars" – but also that Google has "more capable models" that are going to get deployed in the coming days.

"We knew when we were putting Bard out we wanted to be careful," Pichai said. "Since this was the first time we were putting out, we wanted to see what type of queries we would get. We obviously positioned it carefully."  .... ' 

Google Bard

 Got into Google Bard from the wait list in just a few hours.  See Bard.google.com    Here is how they describe it.   And Perhaps naturally, each interaction also includes the ability to use a google search .  Says it uses the Web as a source of knowledge, as well as books, articles, other accessible resources.  

Bard.google.com

Google Bard is Google's experimental, conversational, AI chat service. It is meant to function similarly to ChatGPT, with the biggest difference being that Google's service will pull its information from the web.

Google Bard was named after the Bards of Celtic cultures, who were professional story-tellers, musicians, and oral historians. Google Bard is designed to be a modern-day equivalent, using artificial intelligence to generate creative text formats of text content, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc.

Google Bard is still under development, but it has learned to perform many kinds of tasks, including:

- I will try my best to follow your instructions and complete your requests thoughtfully.

- I will use my knowledge to answer your questions in a comprehensive and informative way, even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange.

- I will generate different creative text formats of text content, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc. I will try my best to fulfill all your requirements ....

Seems well done, does seem to allow for some stranger questions.    They warn you its new and still a work in progress, experimental, can make mistakes, etc.   It seems now most every one wants such a capability added to their world of tools.