Google's long-awaited, AI-powered chatbot, Bard, is here. The company rolled it out to the public on Tuesday, and anyone with a Google account can join the waitlist to get access. Though it's a standalone tool for now, Google is expected to put some of this technology into Google Search in the future. But in contrast to other recent AI chatbot releases, you shouldn't expect Bard to fall in love with you or threaten world domination. Bard is, so far, pretty boring.

A Microsoft executive has revealed OpenAI is planning on releasing its upgraded model that powers AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat. The news comes from Microsoft Germany's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andreas Braun, who appeared on stage at the AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff event on March 9 alongside other Microsoft Germany employees. All of the Microsoft officials discussed the upcoming ventures with artificial intelligence language models and the involvement of OpenAI's GPT series. Reports now indicate that OpenAI, in which Microsoft has heavily invested with more than $10 billion already pledged, is nearing the end of development for GPT-4, the next upgrade in the underlying technology powering the now immensely popular AI tools. According to Baum, OpenAI will be rolling out GPT-4 sometime "next week", which means we can expect some kind of announcement from OpenAI this week since Baum made those comments on March 9. "We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities - for example videos," Braun said.

ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence program that is generating a lot of interest for its ability to write nearly anything it's asked to write and to answer questions. Microsoft has announced a large investment into its maker, the artificial intelligence company OpenAI. People are now putting the tool to all sorts of tests, including experiments in health care and medicine. Already, ChatGPT has been named as a co-author on multiple research papers and passed a version of the U.S. licensing exams for physicians. How could ChatGPT be deployed in health and science?