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  1. zikalify
    Google Bard now requests your actual location for better answers by Paul Hill Google has pushed out another update for its generative AI chatbot, Bard. This time, it has added the ability for users to allow access to their location so that Bard can use this and provide more relevant results. One popular Google Search query is “What time does X close?”, you’ll typically see the searched-for business in your Search results with a list of closing times. You can now do this in Bard with the location update and it will give you the closing times of the local stores you asked about. Google didn’t really expand too much on what else the precise location would enable you to do, but Bard itself says you can get location-specific information on places like coffee shops and restaurants, get directions from your current location, find events that are happening near you, and get local weather information. Having tested the weather forecast, Neowin can report that it works well but there is a small grievance. In the UK, where a hodgepodge of imperial and metric measurements are used, the main unit for measuring the temperature is Celsius. Despite knowing that the query was coming from the UK, Bard still decided to put out its response in Fahrenheit, a quick clarification swiftly resolves this though. To see which location Google Bard has for you, just look in the bottom-left corner and you should see a blue dot if you’ve given permission for it to use your location, followed by your town or city. You can also press update location if it’s now out of date due to travelling. OpenAI took an early lead in the generative AI race but while it still gets updates, its knowledge is still stuck in 2021 and it cannot do as much now as Bard, such as accessing your location or grabbing relevant pictures from the web and inserting them into your query results (at least on the free tier). We are still early on with regards to the maturity of these generative AI projects so we should see a lot more new features arriving over time. It’s so early that Google still refers to Bard as an experiment.
  2. zikalify
    Google Bard can now bring in images from Search by Paul Hill Google has updated Bard again today, this time it has enabled the ability to bring in images from Search. For example, you can now say to Bard “Show me a dog” or something more advanced like “Show me a red dog chasing a stick”, both of which yield acceptable results. While Google Bard supports English, Japanese, and Korean, the image support only works with English requests right now. If any of the results rendered are interesting to you, and you’d like to follow them up, the source is attached to the image and you can click through to it. According to the company, it has added image support because the medium can help communicate ideas more effectively. It said that “They can bring concepts to life, make recommendations more persuasive and enhance responses when you ask for visual information.” Ever since Google I/O at the start of the month, updates have been coming to Bard on a regular basis. It has added a new PaLM 2 LLM under the hood, an export option, dark mode, and more useful summaries and source information. To be clear, this latest update is just fetching relevant images from Search. Bard cannot yet generate its own images via Adobe Firefly, but that should arrive sometime in the coming months. When you ask for images from Bard, it can display several images separately. After a bit of experimenting with different queries, it seems that it can create a gallery of images with left and right buttons to scroll through the images. It usually provides a small description of the image underneath so you can better understand what you’re looking at. Keeping on top of all the new capabilities of Bard can be a bit tricky. An easy way to see what it can do is by heading to the Updates tab on the left-side menu. There, you’ll find all the major updates to Bard, when they were added, and why they have been added.
  3. zikalify
    Google Bard now gives better summaries and more useful source info by Paul Hill It has been five days since Google opened Bard up to most of the world and added Japanese and Korean but Google has already pushed out another update. This time, the company is promising better summary info to help you get the gist of a topic quickly and more helpful sources. One of the issues with Bard before today was that it would output its lengthy answer and included sources at the bottom. Unfortunately, you didn’t know which parts of the answer were from the sources; this changes today. In the latest update, Google is now putting numbers alongside the response to show which parts are taken from the source links at the end of the answer. With regards to better summaries, Google said it wants to help you get the gist of an answer more quickly but that it won’t always get it right. If Bard’s response seems weird or is just plain wrong, don’t hesitate to give the response a thumbs down so that Google can have a look. If you’d like to check back through the latest Bard updates, just open up Bard and press the Updates option on the left-hand side. It will open a new tab with dated release notes.
  4. Ishtiaqe Hanif
    Google asks users to help build the future of Search with Search Labs by Ishtiaqe Hanif Search giant Google announced Search Labs at the Google I/O keynote address today. As part of their yearly experiments with the search engine, they try to figure out which of their new ideas can be more helpful to people, but many of them don't see the face of daylight. To give users a sneak peek into bold early-stage experiments and share feedback, Google is opening its doors to Search Labs to more people. For this year's limited-time experiences, Google is offering the following experiments in their Labs: SGE ( Search Generative Experience): As we have seen with the Bing chatbot, with new capabilities brought by generative AI, Google plans to make Search easier for the masses. Its Bard AI will understand the gist of the search query and provide users with a more informative and useful response. Code Tips: It will give short useful code extracts using the power of LLM. Currently supported languages are Go, Java, Python, Javascript, C++, Kotlin, shell, Git and Docker. Add to Sheets: While hovering over a search result, Google will show add to sheets icon, bookmark, and share options. This will directly add the link to a selected spreadsheet on Google Drive. These are the three currently offered experiments on Search Labs. It's open today in English, US-only. Sign-up for the waitlist is required before getting access. You can sign up by following this link. Source: Google
  5. John Callaham
    Google Bard chatbot AI is now available without a waitlist, and it uses the new PaLM 2 LLM by John Callaham As expected, the Google Bard chatbot that was first announced earlier in 2023 was a big part of the company's Google I/O 2023 keynote address today. The company confirmed earlier rumors that it will use its new PaLM 2 large language model, and it also revealed it has ditched its waitlist. It is now available in 180 countries and territories, and more will be added in the future. It has also added support for Japanese and Korean languages, and will soon add support for 40 languages. The company also announced some upcoming features coming to Bard. One will allow it to create AI-generated images. Google stated: In the coming months, we’ll integrate Adobe Firefly, Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, into Bard so you can easily and quickly turn your own creative ideas into high-quality images, which you can then edit further or add to your designs in Adobe Express. The chatbot has also added dark mode and will add the ability for responses to questions to include images. It will also add a way to create documents and have them exported to Gmail and Docs for final edits. Some other upcoming features include: Source citations: Starting next week, we'll make citations even more precise. If Bard brings in a block of code or cites other content, just click the annotation and Bard will underline those parts of the response and link to the source. “Export” Button: We've heard that developers love the export to Colab feature, so coming soon, we're adding the ability to export and run code with our partner Replit, starting with Python. Stay tuned as we will be posting more news and announcements from Google I/O today.
  6. zikalify
    Google Bard rolls out Dark theme and export feature [Update] by Paul Hill It appears that Google has rolled out a Dark theme for its Bard generative AI. The company has not yet mentioned it on its Experiment updates page yet. To enable it just tap the option in the bottom left. It will turn most of the page a solid black except for the main chat area which uses various dark greys to distinguish various elements. The Dark theme obviously doesn’t add an ability to Bard’s skills but it’s a nice addition so that you don’t get blinded in the middle of the night. It’s not clear if the theme is enabled automatically based on your browser or operating system settings but you can quickly toggle between Light and Dark. In recent weeks, Google has also spruced up the send message button in Bard so that the send arrow flies past several of those Bard stars. It’s a nice addition, but again, doesn’t really add to the ability of the Bard model itself. Stay tuned to Neowin’s coverage of Google I/O where we expect plenty of AI and Bard-related news to drop. Update: Google has updated its Bard release notes to mention the new Dark theme. Also, you can now export responses to email and Google Docs, just tap the upload button to the left of the Google it button.
  7. John Callaham
    Your next hamburger combo drive thru order at Wendy's could be taken by a Google AI chatbot by John Callaham In the newly released Work Trend Index report from Microsoft, it says that employees were hoping to use new AI features to be more productive in their jobs. An example of how AI could do just that was just revealed by the fast food restaurant chain Wendy's. The Wall Street Journal reports that Wendy's has been working with Google on an AI chatbot that would take orders from drive-thru customers. The chatbot is likely a modified version of Google's Bard. This new chatbot for Wendy's will be able to recognize words that might only be used at the drive-thru, such as ordering a Frosty (Wendy's version of a milkshake). It will also be designed to get customers to upsize their orders, or state some daily specials. The ultimate goal is for the chatbot to reduce the wait time at the drive-thru and thus get more sales. The article says this drive-thru chatbot will be set up at one of Wendy's company-owned locations in Columbus, Ohio in June. If it does its job right, customers won't know the difference between a human taking an order and the chatbot. Wendy's says this will not replace any workers in their locations but rather will allow them to concentrate on other jobs. There's no word on when this technology might find its way to other Wendy's locations.
  8. John Callaham
    Google rumored to announce PaLM 2 LLM and more AI updates at I/O 2023 by John Callaham We already know Wednesday, May 10 will be a huge day for announcements from Google during its I/O 2023 keynote address. Now some more details about what could be revealed may have leaked beforehand. According to CNBC, the company will reveal its new PaLM 2 large language model during Google I/O on Wednesday. This will be the follow-up to the original PaLM LLM which is now used in Google's Bard chatbot. The article states: PaLM 2 includes more than 100 languages and has been operating under the internal codename “Unified Language Model.” It’s also performed a broad range of coding and math tests as well as creative writing tests and analysis. The article added that Google has been working on updates to Bard, including a version called “Multi-Bard" that's designed to handle more complex coding and math problems. The story also claimed Google is testing other versions called “Big Bard” and “Giant Bard" but it didn't offer any information on the features of these versions. In addition, the article says Google will be announcing more AI features for its Workplace apps during I/0 2023. It's already testing generative AI features for its Docs and Gmail services for some outside users. However, CNBC says Google will also show off how AI can create templates for Sheets users, along with image generation for its Slides and Meet online products. Google is also expected to reveal a number of hardware products on Wednesday. It has already confirmed it will announce the Pixel Fold foldable smartphone, which will likely be Google's most expensive phone it has ever released.
  9. John Callaham
    Google I/O 2023: How to watch it and what will and could be revealed by John Callaham In the past, Google I/O has concentrated mostly on software announcements and focused on the developer community. However, the company has been using the conference to make consumer hardware announcements in the past few years. For Google I/O 2023, that trend will go into overdrive, with multiple hardware announcements and reveals that might even include one or two surprises. Here's the info you will need about Google I/O 2023, including how to watch it online and what we expect will be revealed at the conference. What is Google I/O? Google I/O is the company's annual developers conference, similar to Microsoft Build and Apple's WWDC. Google started the conference in 2008 and has held it ever since, except for 2020 when it was canceled due to the Covid 19 pandemic. When and where is Google I/O? This year, the event is only being held on one day, Wednesday, May 10. It's the first time that the conference has only been held on a single day. The keynote events are being held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, but all of the conference is also being held via live stream from its official web site for free. How can I watch the big keynote events? The keynote address, which will be the place to watch all the big reveals from Google, will be held starting May 10 at 10 am Pacific time (1 pm Eastern time) and will be live streamed on YouTube. The developer keynote will also be live streamed on YouTube starting at 12:15 pm Pacific time (3:15 pm Eastern time). What will and could be revealed at Google I/O 2023 Here's what we definitely think will be shown off at the conference and some speculation on what could get revealed Google Pixel Fold The company has already teased us that this phone will be revealed on May 10. It will be Google's first foldable phone, with its second-gen in house Tensor processor inside. The phone is expected to launch later this year, but with a high price tag, as high as $1,799. Google Pixel Tablet First revealed at last year's I/O event, Google will definitely confirm the Android tablet's hardware specs, prices, and launch date on May 10. Google Pixel 7a This is also set for a reveal on Wednesday. It will be Google's latest, and possibly last, entry in the budget smartphone market. More info on Android 14 Google will offer up some more info on the next version of its Android mobile operating system at I/O, and will likely release the second beta of the OS on Wednesday as well. Possible preview of Google Pixel 8 phones and Pixel Watch 2 We could also get a preview of Google's plans for the Pixel 8 series of phones, which could be the first products to use the third-gen Tensor chip. A recent report also claims that we could see the Pixel Watch 2 launch alongside the Pixel 8 phones, so we may get a preview of that smartwatch as well on Wednesday. Possible more info on Bard and other AI services Bard has been front and center in Google's news updates for the past couple of months. We could get more info on plans to improve and expand the AI chatbot at Google I/O. We could also get more info on some of Google's other AI projects, including its plans to launch an AI image generator and even an AI-based video creator. Possible more info on new and improved Google services The I/O keynote will also almost certainly will reveal improvements to many of Google's software and online services like Docs, Photos, Maps, and others. Wild cards Google is known to have a surprise or two in its I/O keynotes. In the past it has revealed experimental projects like Starline, which showed off realistic 3D video conferencing, and Duplex, which created AI-based two way conversations for business use. We will be covering Google I/O on Wednesday and will report on all the big revealed at the keynote.
  10. John Callaham
    Google Bard is now open for Workplace accounts in its latest update by John Callaham Until today, the Google Bard chatbot was only available for people who had personal Google accounts. Now that situation has changed. Bard's latest update now supports Google Workspace accounts as well. This new feature was announced on the Bard update page today. It stated: What: Google Workspace admins can now enable Bard for their domains, allowing their users to access Bard using their Workspace accounts. Why: You can now use Bard to help with work, research, or other business needs, when signed into your administrator-enabled Google Workspace account. This should open up Bard to be used by a larger number of users. It should also enable Bard to assist in more serious business and enterprise tasks. Google seems to be a bit slower in adding more features to Bard compared to Microsoft with its Bing Chat chatbot. Microsoft posts weekly updates to its Bing Blog about new features, and this week it went even further with a big list of new and upcoming features. By contrast, this new update is the first in two weeks for Bard. It was last updated on April 21, when it added the ability to write code in 20 languages. Hopefully we will get more info on Bard's plans next week as part of the Google i/O dev conference on May 10.
  11. zikalify
    UK competition watchdog launches review into generative AI by Paul Hill The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which recently blocked Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, is now launching an initial review of “artificial intelligence models” such as those that power Bing Chat and ChatGPT. The CMA launched the review after the government asked regulators to look into how AI will affect consumers, businesses, and the UK economy. Through the initial review, the CMA wants to look at three things in particular. It wants to see how these AI models could evolve. It wants to look into the opportunities and risks for competition and consumer protection. Finally, it wants to set out principles to support competition and protect consumers. Various regulators in the UK will be looking into how AI affects their target area. AI touches on several important issues such as safety, security, copyright, privacy, and human rights. Take for example the replacement of writers by AI, well it’s not so simple a matter of asking the AI to spit out an article for you. In terms of copyright, the output generated by the AI actually belongs to the company that makes the AI. While Google or OpenAI won’t come after you for cheating on your homework, they very well may come after people using outputs for commercial purposes. All of these various issues will be investigated by the UK’s different regulators but the CMA will focus more narrowly on the implication AI has for competition and consumer protection. “AI has burst into the public consciousness over the past few months but has been on our radar for some time. It’s a technology developing at speed and has the potential to transform the way businesses compete as well as drive substantial economic growth,” said Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the CMA. “It’s crucial that the potential benefits of this transformative technology are readily accessible to UK businesses and consumers while people remain protected from issues like false or misleading information. Our goal is to help this new, rapidly scaling technology develop in ways that ensure open, competitive markets and effective consumer protection.” The CMA is now seeking evidence from stakeholders (basically, anyone who may be affected) until June 2. After it has collected these insights and done its own analysis, it will publish a report with its findings in September. If you’d like to find out more or track the development of this work, head over to the initial review webpage.
  12. John Callaham
    Google is reportedly working to add Bard to its Pixel phones via a widget by John Callaham Google's Bard is still trying to catch up with OpenAI's ChatGPT and especially with Microsoft's Bing Chat for generative AI development. Today, a new report says that Google is developing a way for its Pixel phones to access Bard without having to go through a web browser. 9to5Google reports that it has examined code from an unnamed app from Google that shows the company is working on an Android-based homescreen widget for Bard. There's no word on what kind of form this widget could take, although the article speculates it could be a stand-alone app, or one that's incorporated into the Google Search app. The article adds that the new Bard widget would be an exclusive feature for its own Pixel smartphones and the upcoming Pixel Tablet. Of course, Microsoft has already added Bing Chat to its mobile Bing app, along with Bing Chat functionality in Skype and Edge. Google's efforts would simply bring Bard close to what Microsoft has in place for Bing Chat. Keep in mind that this information has not yet been confirmed by Google so take it with some grains of salt. We will almost certainly learn more about Google's plans for Bard, and a ton of other stuff, next week at the Google I/O dev conference on May 10.
  13. John Callaham
    AI systems from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others to be tested at DEFCON 31 in August by John Callaham The rise of generative AI is causing many people to be concerned that they won't behave in ethical and responsible ways. Indeed, one of Google's highest-ranking AI researchers, Geoffrey Hinton, recently left the company so he could be free to warn the world about the potential dangers of AI. Today, US Vice President Kamala Harris will be meeting with the CEOs of four of the leading companies in AI development: Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Google's Sundar Pichai, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. The White House says the participants will discuss the growing use of AI and "the importance of driving responsible, trustworthy, and ethical innovation with safeguards that mitigate risks and potential harms to individuals and our society." The Biden Administration also announced that those four companies, along with Hugging Face, NVIDIA, and Stability AI, have all agreed to have their AI systems tested at the annual DEFCON hacking conference. DEFCON 31 is scheduled to be held in Las Vegas from August 10-13. The White House press release stated: This independent exercise will provide critical information to researchers and the public about the impacts of these models, and will enable AI companies and developers take steps to fix issues found in those models. Testing of AI models independent of government or the companies that have developed them is an important component in their effective evaluation. In addition, the US Office of Management and Budget will create a draft document for a policy on how the US government should use AI, and will offer it for public comment. Also, the National Science Foundation will add $140 million for funding of seven new National AI Research Institutes, which will bring the number of those groups to 25.
  14. John Callaham
    Samsung is banning its employees from using chatbots like ChatGPT due to security leak by John Callaham More companies are cracking down against the use of generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and Google's Bard. The latest business to ban the use of these kinds of chatbots is Samsung. Bloomberg reports that the company sent out a memo to all employees last week, barring them from using chatbots at work or on devices they use for work. According to the report, Samsung discovered that some of its workers had uploaded secret company source code to ChatGPT. There's no word on exactly what kind of data was leaked. While Samsung employees are allowed to use chatbots on devices they personally own, and they can use them outside of work, the company's memo did ask its workers to not submit any company info to chatbots, nor upload any personal info that could result in a leak of Samsung's intellectual property. The memo added: We ask that you diligently adhere to our security guideline and failure to do so may result in a breach or compromise of company information resulting in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. The report says that Samsung is developing its own AI software that will do some of the work that chatbots can do, such as summarizing reports, writing software, and translation. This latest development by a major tech company to ban the use of chatbots at work shows that more and more businesses are becoming concerned about how generative AI could lead to more security issues. This week, Microsoft outlined how it will implement responsible AI practices in its products.
  15. Ishtiaqe Hanif
    ChatGPT rival Google Bard launch was delayed over safety concerns by Ishtiaqe Hanif Google had been secretly working on an AI-driven virtual assistant since mid-2021, well before late 2022, when rival ChatGPT was released according to former Responsible AI team member Blake Lemoine, who discussed about Bard in a recent interview . Bard is a conversational generative AI bot based on LaMDA LLM. Blake told Futurism that OpenAI's offerings are not pushing Google around. What Google has in store is far more advanced in terms of technology, and its trajectory is not being affected. He also said he thinks Google is doing things in ways it believes are safe and responsible. OpenAI turned out to have released their ChatGPT before the curtains on Bard were lifted. Without putting a product name on it, Google has been working on Bard for a couple of years. Blake said, "They were on the verge of releasing something in the fall of 2022. So it would have come out right around the same time as ChatGPT, or right before it. Then, in part because of some of the safety concerns I raised, they deleted it." According to him, Google could've released a product similar to Bard's two years ago. Creative accuracy, and preventing gender, racial, and political bias are important for the Alphabet subsidiary. This has surfaced amid a report claiming Google is rushing out Bard and other AI products with poor ethical guards. Source: Futurism
  16. zikalify
    AI on the brink of consciousness? AMCS open letter calls for action by Paul Hill The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS), has penned an open letter calling on big tech and other bodies to accelerate research in consciousness science. The call has been made given the rapid development of ChatGPT, Bard, Bing Chat, and other generative AIs. The AMCS is not the first organization to write an open letter with AI concerns. Just this week, the Microsoft-backed BSA called for federal rules and guidelines on AI and in March, over a thousand signatories, including Elon Musk, asked all AI labs to pause AI training. According to AMCS, it’s not such wild thinking to expect AI to soon reach “higher-level brain architecture and functioning”. It said this would put it somewhere in our moral landscape which would raise ethical, legal, and political concerns. As such, it wants to ensure that society understands the implications of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Suggesting a possible way forward, AMCS says that consciousness research is vital for understanding AI. It said that society and the scientific community need to take its concerns seriously. It hopes that its letter will accelerate research in consciousness so we can better understand AI and ensure positive outcomes for humanity. If you’d like to read the letter in full, you can find it here. If you scroll to the bottom, you can add your name to it to show you’re in alignment with what it says.
  17. John Callaham
    NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails will keep chatbot AIs like ChatGPT from going crazy with its answers by John Callaham In the last few months, we have read about the many different chabots that are available, from ChatGPT to Bing Chat to Bard. However, the large language models that are used as the core of these chatbots have led to lots of concerns about both the level of truth in their answers and also how they sometimes start to spout some off-the-way responses. Today, NVIDIA has announced a new open source platform designed to put some restrictions on chatbot answers. It's called, appropriately enough, NeMo Guardrails. It will allow software developers to put in safeguards on the kinds of answers that are created by chatbots. There will be three different types of guardrails in this program: Topical guardrails prevent apps from veering off into undesired areas. For example, they keep customer service assistants from answering questions about the weather. Safety guardrails ensure apps respond with accurate, appropriate information. They can filter out unwanted language and enforce that references are made only to credible sources. Security guardrails restrict apps to making connections only to external third-party applications known to be safe. Software developers can learn more about NeMo Guardrails on NVIDIA's technical blog.
  18. John Callaham
    Google Bard can now write code in over 20 programming languages by John Callaham Google's Bard chatbot has been playing catch up with Microsoft's Bing Chat since it first launched as public "experiment" one month ago today. Today, Google announced a major new update for Bard, as it can now generate programming code with text prompts. In a blog post, Google states: Starting now, Bard can help with programming and software development tasks, including code generation, debugging and code explanation. We’re launching these capabilities in more than 20 programming languages including C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python and Typescript. And you can easily export Python code to Google Colab — no copy and paste required. Bard can also assist with writing functions for Google Sheets. The new feature also lets users get explanations from Bard about the code it has created, and it can also help debug both existing code and code that Bard itself has generated. Google says it will even cite the source of any code that comes from an open-source project. As usual, the company has put in a disclaimer that says Bard could generate some mistakes in its code creations. Of course, both ChatGPT and its cousin, Microsoft's Bing Chat, have had the ability to generate code as well, but it now seems like Bard is closing the gap quickly in terms of its features. Bard has also revealed a smaller update, stating it will now offer a "wider range of more distinct drafts" for people who want to use it to create text documents.
  19. John Callaham
    Google merges its two AI teams, Brain and DeepMind, to form Google DeepMind by John Callaham Google is finally merging its two AI teams into one group. Google's internal Brain team, which was part of the Google Research division, is merging its operations with DeepMind, the UK-based company that was formed in 2010, and which Google acquired in 2014. In a blog post today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that Brain and DeepMind will now be one group, called Google DeepMind. He stated: Their collective accomplishments in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models. Combining all this talent into one focused team, backed by the computational resources of Google, will significantly accelerate our progress in AI. Demis Hassabis, the leader of DeepMind, will now be the CEO of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the head of the now former Google AI division, will now be Google’s Chief Scientist and will report to Pichai. Google has been playing catch up lately to Microsoft in terms of AI innovations. In March, it announced its chatbot AI called Bard. However, its launch was not without controversy, and this week a new report claimed that Google rushed Bard's public launch against the objections of some employees, including many of its AI ethical team. Google is also working on its own AI art and video generators.
  20. John Callaham
    New report claims Google is rushing out Bard and other AI products with poor ethical guards by John Callaham On Sunday, CBS News devoted the majority of its latest 60 Minutes episode to looking at Google efforts into AI technology. That included a chat with the company's CEO Sundar Pichai, who stated that there was a pressing need for regulations for the use of AI. However, a new report from Bloomberg claims Google rushed out new AI products like Bard with little efforts to put in ethical guardrails for its information. The company was reportedly threatened with the sudden rise of ChatGPT, and the AI ethics team at Google was allegedly ignored when it decided to rush out Bard. The article states: The group working on ethics that Google pledged to fortify is now disempowered and demoralized, the current and former workers said. The staffers who are responsible for the safety and ethical implications of new products have been told not to get in the way or to try to kill any of the generative AI tools in development, they said. The article says that before Bard was launched to the general public, Google employees were asked to test it. Some of their responses were very critical: One worker’s conclusion: Bard was “a pathological liar,” according to screenshots of the internal discussion. Another called it “cringe-worthy.” One employee wrote that when they asked Bard suggestions for how to land a plane, it regularly gave advice that would lead to a crash; another said it gave answers on scuba diving “which would likely result in serious injury or death.” In the end, Google launched Bard as an "experiment", telling users that it could make mistakes in its answers. However, it also shows that AI still has a long way to go before it offers answers that are truthful. A Google spokesperson responded to Bloomberg's request for a comment, stating, "We are continuing to invest in the teams that work on applying our AI Principles to our technology,”
  21. zikalify
    Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for global AI regulations in 60 Minutes interview by Paul Hill Google had been sitting on its generative AI tools for a while before ChatGPT forced its hand to release Bard as an experiment. Google’s reluctance to put generative AI out to the public is a bit more clear now. In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said there need to be global AI regulations. In the interview clip, he said that AI will pose a threat to national security and over time it will be used by most countries. This will be one area in which Pichai predicts global treaties will be developed over time. In a longer version of the interview, CNBC reports that society needs to adapt to artificial intelligence as it will even disrupt the employment of knowledge workers including writers, accountants, architects, and software engineers. Pichai is quoted as saying: “This is going to impact every product across every company. For example, you could be a radiologist, if you think about five to 10 years from now, you’re going to have an AI collaborator with you. You come in the morning, let’s say you have a hundred things to go through, it may say, ‘these are the most serious cases you need to look at first.’” It’s very important to notice the language that Pichai uses during the interview. He does say jobs will be impacted, but not necessarily that they’ll be lost. Anyone who has used one of these generative AIs knows that they blurt out rubbish sometimes so a more likely application will be that workers use them to complement their work to boost their productivity. Source: CNBC
  22. John Callaham
    Google Bard now has an "experiment updates" page to promote its latest improvements by John Callaham When Google launched its Bard chatbot AI in March, it labeled it as an "experiment" but one that the public could access and use. Now the company has posted its first official "experiment update" for Bard, highlighting the changes and improvements it has put into the chatbot since launch. The update page says that this will allow users to "have an easy place to see the latest Bard updates for them to test and provide feedback." This first update is pretty minor, at least compared to the many, many changes and improvements that Microsoft has put into its own Bing Chat since it launched in February. In fact, there are only two updates listed. One was hinted at several days ago by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. He stated that Bard would switch from the smaller LaMDA language model to the larger PaLM model. The Bard update page states the chatbot has now been updated to provide "better capabilities for math and logic." That's likely due to the switchover to the PaLM model. The other update listed is that Bard now includes "additional suggested Search topics when people click 'Google it.'". The page states, "People will be able to explore a broader range of interests with more related topics." Hopefully we will get more detailed updates on Bard's additions and improvements via this page over the coming weeks and months.
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    Google CEO says conversational AI will come to Search by Paul Hill Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, has confirmed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that Google Search will start to receive conversational artificial intelligence elements in upcoming updates to compete with Bing Chat, which Microsoft has been offering to customers for a while now. Microsoft has even started rolling Bing Chat out to other services including SwiftKey Beta. In the interview with WSJ, Pichai said that AI will supercharge Google Search’s ability to answer users’ requests and said that rival chatbots like Bing Chat and ChatGPT do not pose a threat to Google Search. He went on to say: “The opportunity space, if anything, is bigger than before. Will people be able to ask questions to Google and engage with LLMs in the context of search? Absolutely.” In another recent interview, Pichai said that Google Bard, its generative AI project, would switch over to a new large language model (LLM) called PaLM. The Google CEO said that PaLM is a more capable model, and according to Bard, has been shown to be better at some tasks such as code generation and translation while LaMDA is better at question answering and creative writing. Source: WSJ
  24. John Callaham
    Google Bard will soon switch language models from LaMDA to PaLM to compete with Bing Chat by John Callaham Google's chatbot AI Bard was launched to the general public earlier in March. However, the initial response has not been favorable, as Bard hasn't offered the kind of detailed answers to questions that Microsoft's Bing Chat has provided. Indeed, Microsoft's head of Advertising and Web Services Mikhail Parakhin stated that Bard was "pretty far behind" Bing chat. However, Bard may soon be able to better compete with Bing Chat, thanks to changing out its large language model. Currently, Bard uses the LaMDA model which has a relatively small data set. However, on the Hard Fork podcast from The New York Times (via Engadget), Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the chatbot will switch over to the larger PaLM model. In fact, it may have happened already as Pichai stated that the switch from LaMDA to PaLM could occur "maybe as this goes live". He added that PaLM "will bring more capabilities, be it in reasoning, coding." Pichai also commented on Bard's development as a whole saying: We are all in very, very early stages. We will have even more capable models to plug in over time. But I don’t want it to be just who’s there first, but getting it right is very important to us. There's also been a lot of debate over how chatbots like Bard, Bing Chat, and ChatGPT should be used and regulated. Indeed, the non-profit research group, the Center for AI and Digital Policy recently asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate ChatGPT's parent company OpenAI for possible violations of consumer protection laws. On the podcast, Pichai stated it was "too important" to get regulations in place for AI, but added, "It’s also too important an area not to regulate well."
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    Italy's data protection agency blocks ChatGPT over purported privacy infringement by Fiza Ali Italy's data protection agency has provisionally restricted OpenAI's ChatGPT from using the personal data of Italian users'. The agency opened a probe into the AI chatbot over a suspected breach of its data collection rules. It further accused the service of failing to monitor the age of its users as the app is supposed to be for users above the age of 13. According to ChatGPT's terms of use, Registration and Access: You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. If you are under 18 you must have your parent or legal guardian’s permission to use the Services. If you use the Services on behalf of another person or entity, you must have the authority to accept the Terms on their behalf. Talking about the issue of personal data collection, the Italian agency alleged: The absence of any legal basis that justifies the massive collection and storage of personal data in order to 'train' the algorithms underlying the operation of the platform. According to a UBS study, ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users about two months after its launch. The meteoric rise of ChatGPT last year prompted the arrival of a number of similar services like Google Bard and Bing Chat. Although revolutionary, these services also pose a threat to privacy and possible disruptions in various sectors. Only recently, OpenAI's chatbot encountered a bug that possibly revealed the personal and partial payment information of its ChatGPT Plus service subscribers. This goes on to show how AI chatbots and similar services, fuelled by our personal data, can be a data privacy nightmare. Source: Reuters