Google’s conversational robot, Bard, now available in English in 180 countries

Google opened, on Wednesday May 10, its generative artificial intelligence chatbot Bard to 180 countries in English and announced the upcoming integration of this technology (capable of creating content on demand, in everyday language) to many other platforms, including including online research. However, France is not one of these 180 countries.

“We’ve been primarily an artificial intelligence company for seven years and we’re at a turning point”said Sundar Pichai, the boss of the Californian group, in front of thousands of people gathered in his amphitheater in Mountain View. “For some time now, we have been making our products radically more useful through generative AI, following a bold and responsible approach”he added.

A competitor of ChatGPT

The release in November of the ChatGPT interface – designed by the Californian startup OpenAI, mainly financed by Microsoft – launched a frantic race for generative AI, between exuberant enthusiasm and apocalyptic worries. Google responded with its own interface, Bard, which opened to the public at the end of March.

The chatbot will soon be able to converse in 40 languages ​​and must become multimedia, that is to say be able to integrate images into the questions of Internet users and into its answers. The new Google should arrive in the next few weeks, the company has opened a waiting list on which you have to register to use it in a few weeks.