Google releases its AI chatbot Bard to public use
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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has released its artificial intelligence chatbot for public use as it responds to the growing threat from rival projects at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and OpenAI.
Google's Bard chatbot will be available to a limited number of users on a waitlist picked from those in the U.S. and UK before Google offers Bard in more countries.

The company's also learning from missteps from OpenAI's ChatGPT and its own demonstration of Bard, by limiting the amount of interaction that can occur between Bard and users.
Google's also offering Bard access through a site separate from its search engine - a nod to AI's recent tendency toward "hallucinations" (manufacturing inaccurate information).
The tentative steps are the latest in Google's "code red" response to the release of ChatGPT in November, which shook the tech world with surprising public interactions.
Earlier, OpenAI disabled a history feature on ChatGPT after a bug allowed some users to see parts of conversations from other users.