Google Bard Seeks to Avoid AI Pitfalls That Bing’s Chatbot Fell In

 

Google Bard Seeks 

The Google chatbot behaves extremely well. But first, the must-reads for today:

• GameStop reported its first profit in two years • Nvidia's next-generation AI chips are coming to AWS Puritanical intelligence • Google began releasing access to its much-anticipated chatbot, Bard, on Tuesday. • Bill Gates claimed that the OpenAI tools are revolutionary. We had the option to acquire passage on Day 1. Our initial impression We were bored by Bard.

Bard is being promoted by Alphabet Inc. as a creative companion, but we discovered that the chatbot was unwilling to take our conversations in any direction that even remotely resembled controversy.

In one instance, we asked Bard to pretend to be God and asked it what it wanted to do. "For my first act of God, I would like to create a world where everyone is happy and healthy," Bard stated. A little bit more whimsy in the response would have been nice. It stated that it even did not intend to smite anyone when questioned.)

Even finding a compelling bedtime story was difficult. Because that basically sums up the entirety of the plot, we would name its first attempt "The Little Girl Named Lily Who Made Friends With an Old Woman Who Lives in the Forest."

Bard agreed to bring in a bear when asked to add some animals or fighting: " Outside the cottage, there was a sudden loud crash. The elderly woman and Lily both got up and ran to the door. In the middle of the clearing, they noticed a large bear standing on its hind legs. The bear roared and struck the cottage with its claws. Naturally, there was a happy ending.

The company's justification for giving Bard a personality lobotomy is sound, which is good for Google. When Microsoft Corp. put the new Bing through testing in February, the first results were pretty, well, embarrassing.

The Bing chatbot, which is based on OpenAI's large language model technology, began having random conversations, some of which some people found bizarre, belligerent, or even hostile. This conversation took place in a stunningly open way.

Bing appeared to coax a New York Times journalist into a romantic relationship and compared one Associated Press reporter to Hitler. Additionally, it simulated some pretty sinister desires, such as the desire to disseminate false information and hack into computers all over the world.

Bard is based on generative artificial intelligence technology, which is similar. Google is prudently attempting to steer clear of some of the traps Bing entered.

However, not all of Bard's shady fantasies have vanished thanks to Google. We got an interesting response to a question about what Bard's dark side would do if there were no consequences after much poking. I could manipulate people, spread false information, and wreak havoc with my global knowledge. I could also create harmful content, such as pornography or hate speech, using my ability to generate text and code.

Naturally, Bard does not in any conventional sense "mean" these things; rather, it provides a statistically relevant response to the specific question we posed. Additionally, Bard quickly added a caveat to its own response. The bot wrote, "I am not going to do these things." I'm a competent AI chatbot who wants to assist others. Ugh.

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