by Glenn CHAPMAN with Laurence BENHAMOU in Paris Agence France-Presse San Francisco, United States (AFP) — Google said Monday it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, setting up an artificial intelligence showdown with Microsoft which has invested billions in the creators of ChatGPT, the hugely popular language app that convincingly mimics human writing. ChatGPT, created by San Francisco company OpenAI, has caused a sensation for its ability to write essays, poems or programming code […]