On Thursday morning, news broke that someone was going around selling student data from the University of Michigan to tech workers that build AI chatbot tech. An employee at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research hub, said they’d gotten an offer for recordings of lectures, student discussions, and office hours, as well as essays written … Read more
Maria Diaz/ZDNET At the same time that new artificial intelligence (AI) tools were dominating headlines with their innovative ideas and captivating abilities, Google’s own creation was gaining attention for entirely different reasons. Bard’s initial performance was found lacking on more than one occasion. From its abysmal opening debut to its official launch, users struggled to get the chatbot to provide accurate … Read more
Maria Diaz/ZDNET At the same time that new artificial intelligence (AI) tools were dominating headlines with their innovative ideas and captivating abilities, Google’s own creation was gaining attention for entirely different reasons. Bard’s initial performance was originally found lacking on more than one occasion. From its abysmal opening debut to its official launch, users struggled to get the chatbot to provide … Read more
After the whole Taylor Swift pornographic deepfake fiasco, you’d think Google Bard might be a little more careful. But as one user on X (formerly Twitter) found out it, was surprisingly easy to generate an image of Taylor Swift with the ChatGPT rival. SEE ALSO: What to do if someone makes a deepfake of you … Read more
Google Assistant is the search engine tech giant’s answer to Siri that responds to “Hey Google!” In case you missed it, “Google Assistant with Bard” is now in the works, which is set to underpin the assistant with Bard (i.e., Google’s AI-powered chatbot). And now, thanks to a new leak, we’re seeing some semblance of … Read more
Donald Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, used Google Bard to cite made-up legal cases that ended up in a federal court. The New York Times reported Friday that Cohen admitted in unsealed court papers that he passed on documents referencing bogus cases to his lawyer, who then relayed them to a federal judge. Cohen reportedly … Read more
Google just launched its Gemini AI model. Want to try it out for free? A version of the model, called Gemini Pro, is available inside of the Bard chatbot right now. Also, anyone with a Pixel 8 Pro can use a version of Gemini in their AI-suggested text replies with WhatsApp now, and with Gboard … Read more
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Bard will be available for teens in “most countries around the world” as long as they meet Google’s minimum age requirement to be in charge of their own account, Doshi says. (For many countries, that age is 13; Google lists the exceptions in a support document.) To start, teens will only be able to use … Read more
Did you know that Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, was not open to teens? If a young whippersnapper owned a Google account, and they didn’t meet the age requirement, Bard was inaccessible. However, in a Wednesday blog, Google announced that it’s changing that. Appropriately aged teens now have access to Google Bard. Why is Google … Read more
Google is suing scammers who are trying to use the hype around generative AI to trick people into downloading malware, the company has announced. In a lawsuit filed today in California, the company says individuals believed to be based in Vietnam are setting up social media pages and running ads encouraging users to “download” its … Read more