Google has launched a devoted updates web page for its Bard AI, teasing {that a} regular stream of upgrades is headed the chatbot’s manner 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 up to now it hasn’t actually impressed us. In our hands-on Bard evaluation we discovered that whereas it contains quite a few 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 probably the most correct.
A few of these points may quickly be solved, nevertheless, with Google launching a devoted Experimental Updates page for the AI service – which means that Google has a good few upgrades heading to the chatbot which it must maintain customers knowledgeable about.
The primary updates are nothing main – extra on these beneath – however we’ll seemingly see a mixture of large 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 manner because the defunct Google Stadia and Google Glass initiatives 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 put up 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 maintain 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 instructed search matters while you click on ‘Google it.’ The hope is that this modification will make it simpler to discover a broader vary of matters associated to what you’ve been chatting to Bard about.
The opposite enchancment is that Bard is outwardly 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 in all probability nonetheless make just a few errors.
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