Alphabet, the parent firm of Google, is launching its AI-powered chatbot Bard in Europe and Brazil.
This marks the product's most significant growth since it made its debut in the US and the UK in March and further intensifies the competition with Microsoft's ChatGPT.
These are illustrations of AI which can generate answers to questions in a manner that mimics human behavior.
The EU's primary data regulator voiced worries about privacy, delaying Bard's introduction in the region.
The Irish Data Protection Commission asserted that the tech giant had not provided sufficient data regarding the security of Europeans' privacy when using its generative AI tool, thus preventing a justified EU launch.
The company stated that it has held meetings with the watchdogs to give them peace of mind concerning transparency, selection, and control.
Amar Subramanya, Bard's engineering VP, told journalists during a meeting that users had the choice to forbid the collection of their data.
Mr Subramanya refused to reveal whether any projects were in progress for the creation of a Bard app.
He proclaimed that Bard was an experiment and that they desired to be daring and accountable.
Google has introduced new global capabilities to Bard.
The chatbot has capability to articulate its replies to you, and can even answer prompts that involve visuals.
As of now, Jack Krawczyk, Google's senior product director, mentioned in a blog post that you can collaborate with Bard in as many as 40 languages, from Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi to Spanish.
Sometimes, uttering something aloud can assist you in looking at your concept from another perspective. This comes in particularly useful if you need to hear how a particular word is correctly pronounced or to listen to a poem or play.
He indicated that users have the ability to alter the manner and form of Bard's replies to either basic, extended, abbreviated, professional, or familiar.
They have the capability to affix or give new names to conversations, export code to various locations, and insert images into queries.
Global tech figures have urged a stop to further progress in the area of generative AI due to the hype surrounding its capabilities.
Depending on who you ask, the implications of AI could range from leading to the end of humanity to solving climate change, or even both.
In the past half-year, major corporations have put forth billions of dollars in the expectation of obtaining a greater profit through advertising and cloud-based services.
A month-old start-up, Mistral AI, secured an £86m seed funding round to create and train comprehensive language models.
This week, Elon Musk declared the launch of a new AI start-up company, called xAI, with a staff composed of engineers that had previously worked at both OpenAI and Google.
Mr Musk has previously expressed his opinion that a moratorium should be put in place on advances in AI and that the industry should be subject to government oversight.
Anthropic, a U.S. AI firm, has rolled out a rival chatbot to ChatGPT named Claude 2. It has the capacity to summarize text of novel size.
Claude 2 is offered publicly in the United States and the United Kingdom, with a safety practice termed "Constitutional AI" by the organization which describes it as a set of standards to be applied in forming judgments about the text it is producing.
Despite its novelty, AI chatbots appear to be losing their appeal, as evidenced by the recent decline in web user numbers and unique visitors to ChatGPT's website in June.
A new class action lawsuit in the US has been filed against Google over claims that it misused users' personal data to develop Bard.
Eight individuals filed a suit in a San Francisco federal court claiming that Google's unauthorized extraction of data from websites violates the privacy and property rights of millions of internet users and copyright holders.
The plaintiffs' attorney Ryan Clarkson stated in a statement that Google does not have proprietorship of the internet, creative works, our individual manifestations, pictures of our families and kids, or anything else just because we post them online.
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