Bard is a new artificial intelligence (AI) large language model from Google that is likely to have important implications for education. The much-hyped tool was unrolled publicly on Tuesday, March 22, and is widely seen as a competitor to ChatGPT and BingGPT, which both utilize technology developed by the Microsoft-backed developer OpenAI.
Anyone with a Google account can join the waitlist to get access to Bard. This is the latest chapter in the AI wars between Google and Microsoft, as well as other tech players. It comes a week after OpenAI released GPT-4 for paid subscribers to ChatGPT and for some select education purposes, including Khan Academy’s new learning assistant, Khanmigo.
