Google has been working on Bard for months behind closed doors, but says that it's still an experiment. The company is now making the chatbot available for free to people in the U.S. and the U.K. who sign up to a waitlist. Unlike Bing Chat, Bard does not look up search results--all the information it returns is generated by the model itself. But it is still designed to help users brainstorm and answer queries. Google wants Bard to become an integral part of the Google Search experience.

Whether you're using a Microsoft Windows computer or an app like Word or PowerPoint, you can get free virtual help and training through Microsoft's website, Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson reports. Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are taking over the landscape of our everyday lives, and now Microsoft has just announced its own tool called 365 Copilot. It's meant to help people with work-related tasks, so anyone using it can be more productive. The announcement comes just a couple of months after the company revealed it would invest some $10 billion in ChatGPT creator OpenAI. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER AI tool 365 Copilot combines large language models (LLMs) with data.

The news about ChatGPT is everywhere, and like many businesses, you're probably wondering: What is it? Does it have capabilities that can benefit my business? Is it something we need to consider? We recently announced our own integration with GPT, the large language model (LLM) that ChatGPT is built on, and you'll be able to see how it works in our upcoming NLP LiveStream on Thursday, March 2 at 11 AM EST (Save the date to join us!). By way of background, here is some information to help sort through the current ChatGPT buzz and understand if and how ChatGPT, and by extension large language models (LLMs), can be leveraged within your enterprise.

Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-4 is available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. Customers and partners already using Azure OpenAI Service can join the waitlist to access GPT-4 and start building with OpenAI’s most advanced model yet. With this milestone, we are proud to bring the world’s most advanced AI models—including GPT-3.5, ChatGPT, and DALL•E 2—to Azure customers, backed by Azure AI-optimized infrastructure, enterprise-readiness, compliance, data security, and privacy controls, along with many integrations with other Azure services.

Unlike Bing Chat, Bard does not look up search results--all the information it returns is generated by the model itself. But it is still designed to help users brainstorm and answer queries. Google wants Bard to become an integral part of the Google Search experience. The company is now making the chatbot available for free to early users who sign up to a waitlist, to help test and improve the technology in what they say is still an experiment. But experts worry that pitching Bard as an experiment is a PR trick that larger companies use to reach millions of customers while also removing themselves from accountability if anything goes wrong. When Baidu revealed Ernie Bot last week, the first Chinese rival to ChatGPT was met with an almost overwhelming wave of disappointment.

In February, Opera shared plans to integrate generative AI capabilities into its web browser using ChatGPT. Now, the independent browser maker has launched sidebar integration for both ChatGPT and ChatSonic and has introduced another feature called smart AI Prompts. To get these features, you'll need to update your browser and then go to Easy Setup to toggle on the "AI Prompts" option at the bottom. For the Opera GX browser for games, you also need to have the Early Bird option enabled in your browser settings. Once the option is switched on, you'll see buttons for the chatbots on your sidebar, which you can click if you want to launch them within the browser.

Movate (formerly CSS Corp), a digital technology and customer experience (CX) services provider, announced the launch of its new global delivery center in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower, Ébène, Mauritius. It will leverage highly skilled local talent with multilingual capabilities, especially in French and English, to deliver high-tech and high-touch services in Customer Experience Management and Enterprise Product Services. Movate plans to employ over 200 Mauritian skilled technology professionals and this move is a part of its global expansion strategy to address the growing client portfolios and their business needs globally. Movate expands its operations in Mauritius with a new delivery center; plans to employ over 200 Mauritian skilled technology professionals in the next one year. The new state-of-the-art facility at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower is a 300-seater workspace.

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week. Recently I gave myself an assignment: Come up with a framework for explaining generative AI, such as ChatGPT, in a way that illuminates the full potential of the technology and helps me make predictions about its future. By analogy, imagine that it's the year 1780 and you get a glimpse of an early English steam engine. You might say: "This is a device for pumping water out of coal mines."

We've entered the age of AI. Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape huge swaths of the global economy, and businesses of all sizes are rushing to deploy the game-changing technology. The AI market will approach a staggering $1.4 trillion by the end of the decade, according to a forecast by Fortune Business Insights. Here are the three companies best positioned to capture sizable portions of this booming industry. Investors' excitement for AI reached a fever pitch after Microsoft (MSFT 0.57%) announced a multibillion-dollar partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI in January. Since then, the software giant has moved quickly to add OpenAI's technology to its popular productivity tools and its Bing search engine.

In an age of ChatGPT, computer algorithms and artificial intelligence are increasingly embedded in our lives, choosing the content we're shown online, suggesting the music we hear and answering our questions. These algorithms may be changing our world and behavior in ways we don't fully understand, says psychologist and behavioral scientist Gerd Gigerenzer, the director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam in Germany. Previously director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, he has conducted research over decades that has helped shape understanding of how people make choices when faced with uncertainty.