Google Bard

Bard received a major update yesterday with a slew of new features and expanded availability. Most notable is the ability to save and pin chats, as well as have multiple conversations, with Bard’s UI being updated to support everything.

Google is giving Bard its “biggest expansion to date” by coming to Europe and Brazil, as well as supporting additional languages. The AI chatbot is also getting new productivity and personalization features.

Last month Google expanded its generative AI chatbot, Bard, to over 180 countries across the globe, but that excluded the whole of the European Union. Now, a new report claims Bard won’t come to the EU anytime soon over privacy concerns.

The main update to Google Bard today makes the tool better at mathematical tasks, coding questions, and string manipulation with a new “structured, logic-driven” system.

After a big May with several sizable updates, Google Bard is kicking off June by adding support for precise location to get “more relevant responses.”

As an advanced language model, Google’s Bard is trained to receive prompts and reply back in a human-like manner. Beyond the conversational aspect, there are a few features that make Bard what it is, and you should know how to use them. Here’s how you can use Bard to its full potential, including exporting your responses and even deleting your history.

At I/O 2023, Google previewed a number of upcoming features for Bard and image support is now rolling out.

Google Bard picked up a major update at Google I/O, with new languages and over 180 new countries, and now another update is improving Bard’s ability to provide summaries of information and tell you where that information has come from.

Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries. However, what Google didn’t mention is that Bard still isn’t available in the European Union.

Google I/O 2023 was a place for the company to show off its real strength in AI, and it also brought several updates and announcements on existing Google products. Here are some notable numbers and metrics from Google I/O 2023.

After adding code generation last month, Google is updating Bard with a handful of new capabilities while also previewing several other upcoming features, like Gmail export.

Following its launch in March, Google is now making its Bard AI tool available to users with Google Workspace accounts.

Google is preparing to make its Bard AI easier to access on Pixel phones and tablets, starting with an upcoming homescreen widget exclusive to the company’s devices.

Google’s Bard AI arrived late to the game after OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm and had its tech quickly integrated into Microsoft Bing and other products. Now, a new report cites Google employees who feel that the company’s rush to deliver on AI has led to ignoring ethics concerns, all while Bard itself is considered “worse than useless.”

Following math and logic enhancements last month, Google has updated Bard to generate code, as well as debug and explain it. The company says this can “help you by offering new ways to write code, create test cases, or update APIs.”

Google is rolling out a new update to its Bard AI experiment this week that will expand on one of the platform’s unique aspects in “drafts.”

One smart thing that OpenAI did with GPT was give its (large language) model a user-facing versioning system that people are very aware of. Google Bard is starting to do something similar with an “Experiment updates” changelog for Bard.

One of the concerns about generative AI is the easy, hard-to-keep-in-check spread of misinformation. It’s one area many hoped Google Bard would step up above existing options, and while Bard is better at debunking known conspiracy theories than ChatGPT, it’s still not all that good at it.

In 2016, Google Assistant was announced as “your own personal Google,” and Sundar Pichai believes it has the AI “technology to actually do those things now.” The Google CEO was interviewed by the New York Times on Bard and the broader state of AI.

To date, Bard has used LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which is focused on conversational dialogue, and Google is now incorporating PaLM (Pathways Language Model) for improved math and logic capabilities, with “coding coming soon.”

The AI wars are very much ongoing, with Google a bit late to the party. In a new report, Google’s Bard is accused of using ChatGPT responses shared online as training data, but Google denies the claim.