Google opens access to Bard AI chatbot, racing to catch up to OpenAI

Google developed Bard in line with the company’s AI principles, and its demonstrations included a prominent warning at the bottom of its chat window: 'Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information that doesn’t represent Google’s views.' — AP

Alphabet Inc’s Google is granting the public access to its ChatGPT competitor, the conversational AI service it calls Bard.

Users in the US and UK can sign up for a waitlist, the company said Tuesday in a blog post, and people will be added on a rolling basis. Bard is Google’s effort to make up lost ground to OpenAI Inc in the artificial intelligence race.