Google has launched a new “Experimental Update” page for its AI chatbot Bard, allowing users to keep up with the latest features and advances on Bard.
Bard, an “experimental conversational AI service” released by Google earlier this year, is already available in the US and UK. Google says Bard’s model is constantly being tweaked, but without a centralized place to showcase its changes, it’s hard for users to know exactly what it can do. As a result, Google has created this “Experimental Update” page, where users can find information about Bard’s recent updates, including new features and bug fixes. Each update includes a “what” and “why” statement. Of the page itself, Google says it is intended to give “users a place to easily view the latest Bard updates, as well as test and feedback”.
IGeekphone notes that two updates have been released to this page so far. The first concerns improvements to Bard’s “Google it” button, which lets users jump to a Google search page related to their Bard conversation. Google said the feature added more suggested search topics in order to provide users with “a broader range of interests and more relevant topics.” The second concerns Bard’s improvement in math and logic. Google acknowledges that Bard doesn’t always give the right answers in these areas, so the company is working to improve the quality of answers in these areas. The improvement comes shortly after Google switched Bard to a more advanced language model.
While these updates are short and vague, and don’t specify how Google is doing these updates, it’s certainly a good start in showing the public how it’s thinking about development. And at a time when industry professionals and ordinary people alike are openly worried about the unregulated development of AI technology, Google’s transparency could win it some credit.