This was announced by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday (local time) in Mountain View. The day before, at the I/O developer conference, Google presented a list of 180 countries in which the ChatGPT competitor Bard would be offered at short notice. However, neither Germany nor the other 27 member states of the European Union were on the list. This had raised fears in the industry that the deployment of a major tool with artificial intelligence capabilities in Europe would not be possible for an extended period of time.
“We will definitely bring Bart to these (European Union) countries,” Pichai said. Countries like Germany, France, Italy and Spain are important when introducing new Google products. When new services are launched, a “combination of several factors” plays a role, emphasized the Google boss. “With a product like Bart, we naturally want to adapt it well to local conditions and do everything right.”
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The introduction into certain markets is not only about adapting to the respective national languages, but also about regulatory issues. To do this, for example, the machine learning of the AI systems would have to be supplemented with human feedback. “By doing this, we want to make sure that we correctly assess the local norms and the social mood.” These requirements make the work more onerous. “Regulation is different in some areas around the world. So there is more work to be done and we are committed to making it happen.”
With Bard, Google is countering the success of the text robot ChatGPT from the start-up OpenAI. Two months ago, Bard was initially activated for selected users in the USA and Great Britain. The language model works like a chatbot and can answer queries on a wide variety of topics in polished language.
In the press conference, Pichai defended himself against the portrayal that Google was in a “race” with OpenAI or Microsoft for supremacy in artificial intelligence. “We only think of one race, namely to do it right.” Google has committed to daringly implement an innovation. “But we’re approaching this with a deep sense of obligation to do it right responsibly, because it’s not just about us, it’s about a lot of other people.”
In NASDAQ trading, Alphabet C shares temporarily rose 0.38 percent to $117.31.
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