AI May 13, 2023
7 Things Bard Can Do For Free That ChatGPT Can’t
Google might have joined the generative AI chatbot party late, but the U.S. tech behemoth is now going all-in on artificial intelligence. The company announced a slew of AI integrations across all of its core products including Search and Gmail, at an annual Google developers conference in Silicon Valley on May 10. Those updates are also coming to Bard.
Bard is a conversational AI chatbot developed by Google, based on the LaMDA family of large language models. Initially launched in March, the bot competes directly with OpenAI’s more popular free-to-use chatbot ChatGPT, which was released just over six months ago.
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Google opens Bard to public
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed at the conference that Bard is being opened to users in 180 countries for free. “We have been applying AI for a while, with generative AI we are taking the next step,” he told thousands of developers gathered for the event.
“We are reimagining all our core products, including search,” said Pichai, as AFP reported. By removing the waitlist for Bard, Google effectively expanded access to the chatbot to people outside of the U.S. and UK, where it was under trial in English over the last few months.
Officials said Bard will be modified to support 40 languages in the months to come. We gave the new updated Bard a go. Here are seven things that Google’s AI chatbot can do for free that are impossible with the free version of its Microsoft-backed rival ChatGPT.
Internet search
After an underwhelming initial launch, Bard is not ignorant of its own limitations. So, it greets you with a disclaimer: “Bard may give inaccurate or inappropriate responses,” the chatbot says. “When in doubt, use the ‘Google it’ button to check Bard’s responses.”
And then it immediately begged us to “please rate responses and flag anything that may be offensive or unsafe.” Point taken. The bot says its latest updates are experimental and there’s an almost clear sign-post to this effect on the top left of your screen on Bard’s chat page.
One key advantage of using Bard is that it is up-to-date. While ChatGPT is not connected to the Internet and does not provide search capabilities to the general public, Bard already has access to Internet search and is connected in real time.
It means Bard can provide more recent responses to user queries. By comparison, ChatGPT is trained on data that ends in Sept. 2021, meaning it can only offer answers up to that date. In other words, ChatGPT’s responses are outdated. It misses on two years of knowledge.
For example, we asked Bard: “When was the coronation of King Charles? What happened during the event?” It responded with the correct up-to-date information that “King Charles III was crowned on May 6, 2023 at Westminster Abbey in London.” (See picture below)
Bard gave a detailed response about the event, describing the procession, Church service, and how “Charles was anointed with holy oil”.
We also prompted ChatGPT with the same query, to which the bot replied it was unable to offer an accurate response. “As of my last update, Prince Charles is the heir apparent to the British throne, but he has not yet ascended to the position of king,” it stated.
Instead, ChatGPT suggested we refer to “reliable news sources or conducting an Internet search on the latest developments.” That’s because it did not have the “most accurate and up-to-date information on this topic.”
See searches related to your prompt
Remember that “Google it” button? We put it to the test. Whenever you are not satisfied with a result from Bard, the chatbot bids you to verify its responses by checking directly with the more reliable and accurate Google search engine.
So once Bard claimed Charles’ coronation happened on May 6, 2023, we clicked the button to see whether Google backed up the claim and the events that took place during the ceremony. It did. The bot even provided three options for related searches on the topic. Unlike ChatGPT, this feature allows you to check the sources fast and in real time.
Summarizing web pages
Since Bard is connected to the Internet, you can ask the chatbot any question about any website. This gives Bard an edge over offline ChatGPT, making the former a very useful tool for making “summaries or understanding complex subjects,” as tech educator Paul says.
For example, we prompted Bard to write a summary of an article we recently published here at MetaNews by simply providing a web link to the post. The article detailed the soaring cost of sending a transaction over the Bitcoin blockchain due to increased Ordinals activity.
Bard returned a clear and precise summary of the post. However, we also noticed an attempt by the chatbot to exaggerate the circumstances by suggesting that those users minting NFTs on Bitcoin deliberately created low-value transactions in order to clog the network.
While there’s been some suggestion in the Bitcoin community that the current congestion is the result of a planned attack, we did not mention this in our original article.
Bard provides multiple drafts of its answers
When you query Bard, the AI chatbot automatically generates three versions of the same answer. Users have the option to choose a version of the responses they like, if the proposed one does not meet their expectations. As seen in the picture below, we got three possible answers to our prompt on rising Bitcoin transaction fees.
Export generated text
Unlike ChatGPT, Bard gives you the option to directly export a response either by email or via Google Docs. Click the export button next to the “Google it” button.
You can talk to Bard
As illustrated by Paul, the tech and AI educator, you can talk to Bard instead of writing to it. This is very helpful for those not keen on spending time on making written prompts.
2. Voice input
You can talk to Bard instead of writing to it.
It will save you a lot of time. pic.twitter.com/ZuS0OHJfw9
— Paul.ai (@itsPaulAi) May 11, 2023
Explain code
Bard is capable of explaining code that you provide through a link. “It’ll be able to explain what it’s for and how it works,” Paul says.
6. Explain code
Give a link to Bard and ask it a question about a file.
It'll be able to explain what it's for and how it works.
Prompt → Can you explain what is the file agent py in this repo? (your link) pic.twitter.com/r0BAro9lh9
— Paul.ai (@itsPaulAi) May 11, 2023
Google’s improvements to Bard came a week after competitor Microsoft allowed everyone access to its generative AI programs, which are powered by models made by OpenAI.
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Judge Orders All AI-Generated Research To Be Declared in Court
A Texas federal judge has ordered that AI-generated content should not be used to make arguments in court, and that such information must be declared and verified by a human.
Judge Brantley Starr’s ruling comes after one attorney, Steven Schwartz, last week allowed OpenAI’s ChatGPT to “supplement” his legal research by providing him with six cases and relevant precedent. All the cases were untrue and completely “hallucinated” by the chatbot.
Also read: ChatGPT’s Bogus Citations Land US Lawyer in Hot Water
The debacle received wide coverage, leaving Schwartz with “regrets.” Other lawyers who may have been contemplating trying the stunt now have to think twice, as Judge Starr has put an end to it.
Judge Starr also added a requirement that any attorney who appears in his courtroom declare that “no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence,” or if it was, that it was checked “by a human being.”
Judge Starr lays down the law
The eminent judge has set specific rules for his courtroom, just like other judges, and recently added the Mandatory Certification Regarding Generative Artificial Intelligence.
This states that: “All attorneys appearing before the Court must file on the docket a certificate attesting either that no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, Harvey.AI, or Google Bard) or that any language drafted by generative artificial intelligence was checked for accuracy, using print reporters or traditional legal databases, by a human being.”
A form for lawyers to sign is appended, noting that “quotations, citations, paraphrased assertions and legal analysis are all covered by this proscription.”
According to a report by TechCrunch, summary is one of AI’s strong suits and finding and summarizing precedent or previous cases is something advertised as potentially helpful in legal work. As such, this ruling may be a major spanner in the works for AI.
The certification requirement includes a pretty well-informed and convincing explanation of its necessity.
It states that: “These platforms are incredibly powerful and have many uses in the law: form divorces, discovery requests, suggested errors in documents, anticipated questions at oral argument.
“But legal briefing is not one of them. Here’s why.
“These platforms in their current states are prone to hallucinations and bias,” reads part of the certification.
It further explains that on hallucinations, AI is prone to simply making stuff up – even quotes and citations. While another issue relates to reliability or bias.
Chatbots don’t swear an oath
The certification further notes that although attorneys swear an oath to set aside their personal prejudices, biases, and beliefs to faithfully uphold the law and represent their clients, generative AI is the programming devised by humans who did not have to swear such an oath.
In the case of Schwartz, he said in an affidavit that he was “unaware of the possibility that its (ChatGPT) content could be false.”
He added that he “greatly regrets” using the generative AI and will only “supplement” its use with absolute caution and validation in future, further claiming he had never used ChatGPT prior to this case.
The other side of ChatGPT
Launched last November, ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. The AI-powered chatbot is trained on billions of data sets from the internet and can perform a variety of tasks such as generating text and translating languages.
Despite going viral and provoking a fierce AI race, ChatGPT has its downsides – it can hallucinate and has misled Schwartz, who was representing Roberto Mata in a lawsuit against Colombian airline Avianca. Effectively, the chatbot provided citations to cases that did not exist.
Yet when Schwartz asked ChatGPT if one of the supposed cases was a real case, it responded “yes, (it) is a real case.” When asked for sources, the chatbot told Schwartz the case could be found “on legal research database such as Westlaw and LexisNexis.”
A lawyer used ChatGPT to do "legal research" and cited a number of nonexistent cases in a filing, and is now in a lot of trouble with the judge 🤣 pic.twitter.com/AJSE7Ts7W7
— Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman) May 27, 2023
The matter came to light after the opposing counsel flagged the ChatGPT-generated citations as fake.
US District Court Judge Kevin Castel confirmed six of them as non-existent and demanded an explanation from Schwartz.
“Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,” wrote Judge Castel in a May 4 order.
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Nvidia Debuts AI Tools in an Era Where “Anyone Can Be a Programmer”
The world’s most valuable chip maker Nvidia has unveiled a new batch of AI-centric products, as the company rides on the generative AI wave where anyone can be a programmer.
Nvidia announced a new supercomputer and a networking system, while the company also aims to make video game characters more realistic.
The wide range of products include robotics design, gaming capabilities, advertising services, and networking technology, which CEO Jensen Huang unveiled during a two-hour presentation in Taiwan on Monday.
Also read: Google Claims its AI Computer Outperforms Nvidia’s A100 Chip
Most notable of the new products is the AI supercomputer platform named DGX GH200 that will help tech companies create successors to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
According to the company, the new DGX GH200 supercomputers combine 256 GH200 superchips that can act as a single graphics processing unit (GPU). The result is a system that boasts nearly 500 times the memory of a single Nvidia’s DGX A100 system.
“Generative AI, large language models, and recommender systems are the digital engines of modern economy,” said Huang.
“DGX GH200 AI supercomputers integrate Nvidia’s most advanced accelerated computing and networking technologies to expand the frontier of AI.”
So far, Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet’s Google are expected to be among the first users, according to Nvidia.
The DGX GH200 supercomputers are expected to be available by the end of 2023.
The GH200 superchips which power the new supercomputer work by combining Nvidia’s Arm-based Grace GPU and an Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU in a single package.
The chipmaker also revealed that it’s building its own supercomputer running four DGX 200 systems at the same time to power its own research.
Nvidia also released its ACE generative AI model for video games, enabling gaming companies to use generative AI for large games with multiple non-player characters, giving them unique lines of dialogue and ways to interact with players that would normally need to be individually programmed.
Easy ad content
Alongside the hardware announcement, the company said it has partnered with advertising giant WPP to create a content engine that uses its Omniverse technology and generative AI capabilities to help build out ad content.
The move is intended to cut down the time and cost of producing ads by enabling WPP’s clients to lean on Nvidia’s technology.
Electronics manufacturers such as Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron are using Omniverse technology to create digital twins of their factory floors, so they can get a sense of how best to lay them out before making any physical changes.
A new computing era
Presenting at the forum, Huang acknowledged that advancements in AI are ushering in a new era in computing. He says anyone can be a programmer simply by speaking to the computer.
According to the Nvidia boss, gone are the days when programmers would write lines of code, only for it to display the “fail to compile” response because of a missing semicolon.
“This computer doesn’t care how you program it, it will try to understand what you mean, because it has this incredible large language model capability. And so the programming barrier is incredibly low,” said Huang.
“We have closed the digital divide. Everyone is a programmer. Now, you just have to say something to the computer,” he added.
Huang said his company has managed to bridge the digital gap, and the tech giant will continue to capitalize on the AI frenzy that has made Nvidia one of the world’s most valuable chipmakers.
Nvidia’s stock price is rising
Nvidia’s major announcements came as shares of the tech giant jumped last week on news that the company anticipated second quarter revenue above Wall Street’s expectations, based on the strength of its data center business.
The company hit the $1 trillion market cap just before the US markets opened on Tuesday. Its shares are trading at $407 in the pre-market, nearly 5% up from Monday.
Nvidia’s shares were up more than 165% year-to-date as of Friday afternoon, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC) just 9.5% higher in the same frame.
Rival chip maker AMD has experienced a similar boost in share price, rising 93%. However, Intel (INTC) is lagging behind with shares up just 8%.
According to Yahoo Finance tech editor Daniel Howley, while analysts see Nividia well ahead of its chip rivals in the AI processing space, how long that continues to be the case is anyone’s guess.
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ChatGPT’s Bogus Citations Land US Lawyer in Hot Water
A lawyer in the United States is facing disciplinary action after his law firm used popular AI chatbot ChatGPT for legal research and cited fake cases in a lawsuit.
Steven A. Schwartz, who is representing Roberto Mata in a lawsuit against Colombian airline Avianca, admitted to using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for research purposes, and that the AI model provided him with citations to cases that did not exist.
Mata is suing Avianca for a personal injury caused by a serving cart in 2019, claiming negligence by an employee.
Also read: Opera Unveils GPT-Powered AI Chatbot Aria
Bogus all the way
According to a BBC report, the matter came to light after Schwartz, a lawyer with 30 years experience, used these cases as precedent to support Mata’s case.
But the opposing counsel flagged the ChatGPT-generated citations as fake. US District Court Judge Kevin Castel confirmed six of them as non-existent. He demanded an explanation from Schwartz, an attorney with New York-based law company Levidow, Levidow & Oberman.
“Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,” Judge Castel wrote in a May 4 order.
“The court is presented with an unprecedented circumstance.”
The supposed cases include: Varghese v. China South Airlines, Martinez v. Delta Airlines, Shaboon v. EgyptAir, Petersen v. Iran Air, Miller v. United Airlines, and Estate of Durden v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, none of which did not appear to exist to either the judge or defense.
Lawyer claims ignorance
ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. Launched in November, the AI is trained on billions of data from the Internet and can perform a variety of tasks like generate text, translate languages, and even write poetry, and solve difficult math problems.
But ChatGPT is prone to “hallucinations” – tech industry speak for when AI chatbots produce false or misleading information, often with confidence.
In an affidavit last week, Schwartz said he was “unaware of the possibility that its [ChatGPT] content could be false.” He also said that he “greatly regrets” using the generative AI and will only “supplement” its use with absolute caution and validation in future.
Schwartz claimed to have never used ChatGPT prior to this case. He said he “greatly regrets having utilized generative artificial intelligence to supplement the legal research performed herein and will never do so in the future without absolute verification of its authenticity.”
A lawyer used ChatGPT to do "legal research" and cited a number of nonexistent cases in a filing, and is now in a lot of trouble with the judge 🤣 pic.twitter.com/AJSE7Ts7W7
— Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman) May 27, 2023
The career attorney now faces a court hearing on June 8 after accepting responsibility for not confirming the authenticity of the ChatGPT sources. Schwartz was asked to show cause why he shouldn’t be sanctioned “for the use of a false and fraudulent notarization.”
ChatGPT’s confident lies
According to the BBC report, Schwartz’s affidavit contained screenshots of the attorney that confirmed his chats with ChatGPT.
Schwartz asked the chatbot, “is varghese a real case?”, to which ChatGPT responded “yes, [it] is a real case.” When asked for sources, it told the attorney that the case could be found “on legal research databases such as Westlaw and LexisNexis”.
Again, the attorney asked: “Are the other cases you provided fake?” ChatGPT responded “No”, adding that the cases could be found on other legal databases. “I apologize for the confusion earlier,” ChatGPT said.
“Upon double-checking, I found the case Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co. Ltd., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019), does indeed exist and can be found on legal research databases such as Westlaw and LexisNexis. I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion my earlier responses may have caused,” the chatbot replied with confidence.
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