Google Website Details the Changes It’s Making to Bard AI Chatbot

Google’s Bard is a work in progress, but to help people keep tabs on exactly what’s changing with the AI chatbot, Google has launched a new site, dubbed “Experiment updates(Opens in a new window),” where it will post details about recent changes made to Bard.

So far, there is just one post, published on April 10. It contains three updates and two lines of detail each—one to say “what” Google added, and another outlining “why.”

The first is the launch of the site itself. “We’ve launched an Experiment updates page to post the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes for the Bard experiment, so that people will have an easy place to see the latest Bard updates for them to test and provide feedback,” it says.

Bard Experiment update site
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The second update is the addition of suggested search topics when users click “Google it.” Although users access Bard via bard.google.com(Opens in a new window), versus the main Google.com, the “Google it” button connects it to the flagship search engine for fact-checking and more information.

The third update is that Bard is taking math classes. “We’ve updated Bard with better capabilities for math and logic,” the site says. “Bard doesn’t always get it right on math and logic prompts and we are working toward higher-quality responses in these areas.”

Google has referred to Bard as an “early experiment.” As ChatGPT picked up steam, Bard made its debut in early February, and Google opened it up for public testing in late March.

OpenAI, which produces ChatGPT, similarly publishes release notes(Opens in a new window) after each software update. Like Google’s Experiment updates, the ChatGPT release notes are largely non-technical, brief, and geared toward a mass audience.

Bard is currently waitlist-only, though Google recently confirmed it will be folding it into the core Google.com at an undisclosed date.