Google's Bard AI chatbot now available to the public.

Google has released its own AI chatbot called Bard, which will be available to a limited number of users in the US and UK. The release is Google's first public effort to address the recent chatbot craze driven by OpenAI and Microsoft, and it is meant to demonstrate that Google is capable of providing similar technology. However, Google is taking a much more cautious approach than its competitors, which have faced criticism that they are proliferating an unpredictable and sometimes untrustworthy technology.