Google's Bard AI chatbot launches in Australia with vow to develop it ethically

Google's AI chatbot Bard launched for Australian users on Thursday as the company showcased its advancements in artificial intelligence and pledged to roll out the technology ethically. Until now, Bard was only available in the US and the UK, but on Thursday at the company's annual I/O conference Google announced it would open up the chatbot to users in more than 180 countries around the world, including Australia. Bard is the chat program built on Google's large language model, PaLM2, similar to how ChatGPT is built on OpenAI's GPT. It can provide information, write code, translate languages and analyse images. As part of future advancements to Bard announced by Google on Thursday, Bard will provide visual responses in addition to text-based responses. Using Google's Lens application, in the future users will be able to upload images to be analysed by Bard.