A new article has charted the early development of Google’s Bard and Gemini chatbots. It turns out that early prototypes of Bard suggested ‘comically bad’ racial stereotypes in its answers.

Google’s AI assistant has required sign-in to use it since its demo days as Bard, but that’s changing. 9to5Google spotted that you can now use the basic Gemini 2. ...

Alphabet's Google is replacing Sissie Hsiao, who led the development of the artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, now known ...

This comes as no surprise to most, because when Google launched Bard (the name Google used for Gemini early on), Google said it would bring Bard features to the Google Assistant. Then in early ...

Initially, the team's chatbot efforts were known as Bard before being unified under the Gemini brand at the end of 2023. This process has been a bit of a slog, with Google's models improving ...