Google has launched a devoted updates web page for its Bard AI, teasing {that a} regular stream of upgrades is headed the chatbot’s approach sooner or later.
Launched within the wake of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat, Bard is Google’s reply to the AI chatbot fad, however to date it hasn’t actually impressed us. In our hands-on Bard assessment we discovered that whereas it consists of plenty of quality-of-life enhancements in comparison with different chatbots, it’s not the clearest on the subject of citing sources, and usually, its solutions don’t appear to be essentially the most correct.
A few of these points might quickly be solved, nonetheless, with Google launching a devoted Experimental Updates web page for the AI service – which means that Google has a good few upgrades heading to the chatbot which it must preserve customers knowledgeable about.
The primary updates are nothing main – extra on these under – however we’ll seemingly see a mixture of massive and small adjustments to the bot as customers discover, and Google fixes, extra flaws in its efficiency. We’ll have to attend and see what Bard updates Google has in retailer for us over the approaching weeks, months, and additional into the longer term – let’s simply hope we don’t see Bard go the identical approach because the defunct Google Stadia and Google Glass tasks if it doesn’t choose up in reputation quickly.
The primary Bard updates are already right here
The Experimental Updates web page already has one publish detailing the primary three upgrades that Google has made to Bard.
The primary is the launch of the updates web page itself. Google explains that this web page is not going to solely assist preserve Bard customers within the loop about updates, however ought to assist customers to offer higher suggestions on tweaks have been made to the AI.
The primary correct replace is that Bard will now present extra advised search subjects while you click on ‘Google it.’ The hope is that this modification will make it simpler to discover a broader vary of subjects associated to what you’ve been chatting to Bard about.
The opposite enchancment is that Bard is seemingly now higher at math and logic issues. Google says the AI chatbot ought to now present barely smarter solutions to those sorts of prompts, although we’d nonetheless suggest double-checking Bard’s math earlier than you depend on its solutions, because it’ll most likely nonetheless make a number of errors.
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