Google launched its chatbot Bard last week. For a moment if you asked the chatbot about itself, it would claim that it had already been shut down by Google. The mistake led to a saga that included two AI-powered chatbots sourcing incorrect information to each other. I found myself at the center of this series of events, as one of those bots listed my article as a source.
Bard is an AI chatbot that's powered by Google's LaMDA. It competes with Bing Chat, which is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. Bard launched in preview last week, so people had a chance to play with it and test its artificial intelligence.
