The daily business briefing: March 22, 2023

Google cautiously unveils its chatbot, home sales jump for the first time in 12 months, and more

Google's Bard
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1. Google unveils its chatbot, Bard

Google released its chatbot, Bard, on Tuesday, joining the push into new applications for artificial intelligence energized recently by Microsoft and startup OpenAI projects. Google is making Bard available to a limited number of users in the United States and Britain, then expanding access gradually, executives told The New York Times. Google needs to keep up in the AI race to protect its lucrative dominance in internet search, although it's not integrating Bard into its search engine yet. Google is taking a cautious approach after OpenAI's technology stimulated intense interest but faced criticism after reviewers reported unpredictable and occasionally incorrect responses to requests for information.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.