Google opened its artificial intelligence (AI) chat on Wednesday Bard to 180 countries in English, and announced the integration of this technology into many other platforms, including online search.

“We’ve been an artificial intelligence company for seven years and we’re at a tipping point,” Sundar Pichai, the head of the California group, said before thousands of people gathered at his Mountain View amphitheater.

“With generative AI, we’re taking the next step,” Pichai said at Google’s annual developer conference in Silicon Valley, California. “We are reinventing all of our core products, including search.”

“For some time now, we have been radically making our products more useful through generative AI, taking a bold and responsible approach,” he added.

In the presentation that appears on the homepage of Bard, it is possible to read: “Meet Bard: your creative and helpful partner, to strengthen your imagination, increase your productivity and bring your ideas to life. Bard is an experiment and may give inaccurate or inappropriate answers. You can help make Bard better by leaving your feedback.”

The Artificial Intelligence Race

He The November launch of the ChatGPT interface – designed by California-based OpenAI and funded primarily by Microsoft – launched a frantic race for generative AI, between exuberant enthusiasm and apocalyptic concerns.

Google responded with Bard, which opened to the public at the end of March.

Currently only available in English, the new chat will soon be able to converse in 40 languages. It is expected to be multimedia, meaning you can integrate images into user questions and answers.

rivalry with Microsoft

The company also showed how online search will gradually change, with written answers to user questions on top of traditional links, and the ability to interact with the interface, such as asking for clarification.

The new Google coming in the coming weeks, and the company has opened a waiting list to sign up to use it in a few weeks.

Similarly, the California group is developing Bard extensions so that users can interact with the robot directly from the Maps application, Gmail mailbox, or Docs online word processor.

There are also tools for companies that want to build their own generative AI-based tools (search, chatbots, etc.) for their applications, using their own data.

Microsoft has recently made similar announcements. The IT company had already integrated ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and fully opened it to the general public last week.

This has given new life to this hitherto insignificant portal compared to the giant Google.

The two rivals compete against each other in an effort to make their AI-powered platforms users’ personal assistants of choice.

risks of artificial intelligence

Despite being deployed by two of the world’s largest companies, the risks of artificial intelligence also include its potential use for disinformation, with voice cloning, fake videos and persuasive written messages.

In March, a number of experts pushed for a pause in the development of powerful AI systems to allow time to ensure their safety.

He Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, nicknamed ‘the godfather of artificial intelligence’, recently resigned from his job at Google to denounce the dangers of this technology, by perpetuating the existential threat of AI, is “serious and close”.