If Google wants Bard to compete with ChatGPT… it must first teach him Spanish. Try it now, if you are interested...

Among the news about artificial intelligence, which are not few, one of the most recent is that Google now allows everyone to use its Bard. Rather, almost all, since, to avoid problems with the European Community, users from the old continent cannot access the Google chatbot. It cannot be officially, but the company has not put many obstacles so that we can access it, or her, depending on whether we are talking about "chat" or "artificial intelligence".

The worst thing for me is not that we are not allowed access to Bard from the European Community; the worst is Does not know spanish. It is not without a certain grace, since not only is it one of the most widely spoken languages ​​in the world, but also between 12% and 13% of all the inhabitants of the United States speak Spanish (if I am not mistaken, « Castilla" according to them). If we ask her in the language that most of our readers speak, she tells us that she is an LLM trained to answer in a small group of languages ​​at the moment, so she can't help us.

How to access Bard from Europe

With this background, the question here is why any of our readers should be interested in trying out Bard right now. It is not that in Spain we do not know English, but... And it is also true that we have a translation system for many languages, so it is likely that someone from a more bilingual country in the European Community reads us, is interested in trying Bard and don't know how.

The way to access Bard from Europe is the same that we have used in the past to bypass restrictions such as those of Netflix, or some other more "pirate": use a VPN and choose one of the countries that can enter Bard, which is basically all those that are not in Europe. Here we are not going to discuss the different options; we just have to do a search here on LXA to find several of them. Yes we can comment on a couple, like ProtonVPN or TouchVPN. The first is a proprietary application that allows us to use a VPN for the entire operating system, which is also valid for Kodi, for example. TouchVPN is an extension for web browsers, and that is the option that I have used in Firefox to do my tests.

They miss as much as they hit

One of the best options is to use a US VPN, but what has been said, anyone is fine. Once connected to a VPN, we will go to this link, will click "Try Bard", we will accept all the messages and we will appear in a window like the one shown in the header capture. And about how it works, it's not just that I don't speak Spanish well, it's that I ask him about the lyrics "Alone" by Metalite, a ballad that I like and listen to a lot now, and, honestly, I don't know where he gets that 'They sing, "I'm all alone, I'm all alone / I can't find anyone to call my own / I'm all alone, I'm all alone / I'm lost and I don't know where to go.»' . In fact, not even Google tells me where that letter is from.

Does that seem inaccurate to you? Well, I asked him about the song 72 Seasons by Metallica, and he explained to me well what it's about: the first 18 years of our lives, which are the ones that define a lot of who we are. But when he tells me what the lyrics say, it seems that what he is showing me is what the members of the group have explained about the song in an interview, and that has been mixed with the lyrics.

Therefore, if we can label ChatGPT a "cuñao", in the sense that he acts like the typical brother-in-law who knows everything, who has to do everything whether he knows it or not to look good, Bard is much worse off. And let's use the AI ​​that we use, like when we search the internet, we have to doubt the information that they return to us. They are not even close to being infallible, not even in something as "logical" as the logic, worth the redundancy, of the code. Either because they are not asked correctly or because they do not know the answer, we can lose more time than we gain.

In any case, Google makes it very clear, with a label included and clearly visible, that Bard is in the experimental phase. I don't think it's going to be a disaster in the future, but, according to themselves, the one who will take the cat into the water will be open source. Hopefully they get this right.