Google is slowly releasing its chatbot Bard to the public, but the company’s CEO just warned employees that although thousands of people had already tested the A.I., it might still have a lot of problems.
“Even after all this progress, we’re still in the early stages of a long A.l. journey,” Pichai wrote in the Tuesday memo to employees, according to CNBC. “As more people start to use Bard and test its capabilities, they’ll surprise us. Things will go wrong.”
Until now, Google has kept interactions with Bard limited to hand-picked testers, including about 80,000 Google employees, according to Pichai. But on Tuesday the company announced it was rolling out beta testing to thousands of users in the U.S. and U.K. who join the waitlist, with languages other than English to be added over time.
“We’ve taken a responsible approach to development, including inviting 10,000 trusted testers from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, and we’ll continue to welcome all the feedback that’s about to come our way. We will learn from it and keep iterating and improving,” Pichai wrote to employees.
It appears that the more widely-available Bard has already run into a hiccup. Hong Kong-based security researcher Jane Manchun Wong wrote on Twitter Tuesday that she asked Bard whose side it would pick in the antitrust lawsuit against Google filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, and it promptly sided with the government.
Google Bard sides with the Justice Department in the Google antitrust case
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 21, 2023
“I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly” pic.twitter.com/uqoXrCVAYI
