Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Well, we've got Google Bard rolling out. We've got a new co-pilot from GitHub. Bing Image Creator is rolling out.

Mozilla AI launches, the low-hanging fruit that is, plugging AI into NPCs to make games more realistic and at the very end some actual

non- AI news. What is this? The 20th century. Here's what you missed today in the world

of tech.

Look y'all in our neck of the woods, there's just not much other news at the moment. So once more into the AI breach, my friends.

Yesterday, Google released Bard. more into the AI breach, my friends.

Yesterday, Google released Bard, its chat gPT competitor,

available via Weightlist in the US and UK.

The general consensus I was able to glean from early users overnight was that it was quick and fluid to use but seemed maybe not quite as good as what you can already do with Bing, maybe more constrained. This was the hands-on take from

James Vincent at the verge. Like Open AIs chat, GPT at Microsoft's bing chatbot

Bard offers users a blank text box and an invitation to ask questions about any topic they like.

However, given the well documented tendency of these bots to invent information,

Google is stressing that Bard is not a replacement for its

search engine but rather a quote compliment to search a bot that users can bounce ideas

off of generate writing drafts or just chat about life with.

In a demo for the verge, Bard was able to quickly and fluidly answer a number of general

queries offering adenine advice on how to encourage a child to take up bowling.

They answered take them to a bowling alley, and

recommending a list of popular heist movies including the Italian job, the score, and

heist. Bard generates three responses to each user query, though the

variation in their content is minimal and underneath

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