Google is releasing the Bard chatbot to a limited number of users in the US and UK, and the number of people who can try it out will increase in the coming months. This continues the cautious approach of Google, which had to accelerate plans to launch a chatbot after the success of ChatGPT and the launch of Microsoft’s “new Bing”.

The New York Times writes that Google is launching Bard, noting that it is taking a cautious, incremental approach, unlike what OpenAI did with ChatGPT and then Microsoft with New Bing.

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Google has been developing chatbot technology since 2015 and has been testing the chatbot in-house for the past few years, but has not yet planned to publicly release the conversational assistant because it would be too risky. Google executives knew that the chatbot would give false answers and affect the company’s advertising business if people stopped opening various links with ads because they no longer had to search for links.

Over time, Bard will be available to users in more countries and more languages. Google says that Bard will not replace Google search, but rather complement it.

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And at the official presentation in January, as at other events, Bard gave the wrong answers, but that’s not surprising, given that there is still work to be done on the technology, which will advance enormously in the coming years.

Google says it has worked to limit as much as possible the situations in which Bard makes things up based on information found online, but company officials say they can’t eliminate all situations.

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Google has big plans for artificial intelligence technologies and wants to implement them in more than 20 products and services, including Docs and Sheets. In addition, the technology developed by Google will be able to be used for a fee by companies and software developers who want to create their own chatbots to interact with customers.

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