Google releases biggest expansion to date for its Bard generative AI chatbot

Meanwhile, as also seen above, Dylan Roussel managed to enable the actual popup window that you’ll use to submit new prompts/questions to Assistant with Bard. We first saw this design in Google’s initial previews of its AI tool at the Pixel 8 event in October. Using the three buttons along the bottom, you can type or speak a message and/or share a photo with the Assistant. It seems the company is also planning to prominently place the Assistant with Bard experience on the Discover page of the Google Search app. As shown below, we’ve enabled what appears to be a way to quickly switch between performing a normal Google Search and getting help from AI. The new button is reminiscent of a physical slider switch and sits at the top of the page, above the Google logo, rather than as part of the existing bottom bar.

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For now, it’s not clear whether this is intended to be a permanent fixture of the Discover tab. Alternatively, this switch may serve as a temporary reminder to check out Assistant with Bard if you haven’t already. On Tuesday, the commission said Google’s generative AI tool’s privacy protection safeguards were insufficient to support its EU debut under the GDPR, Politico reported. Google warned that this technology has faults, and has been shown to reflect biases and stereotypes or provide false information.

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Google has introduced its own AI chatbot as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat amid fierce rivalry in the AI business. The Google chatbot’s launch started in March and included 180 nations, including the US and the UK. Google’s plan to roll out Bard, its AI chatbot, throughout the European Union (EU) has been blocked after the Irish Data Protection Commission, the company’s primary data regulator in the region, voiced privacy concerns. Instead of being incorporated directly into Google’s search engine, Bard can be found on its own website. Google is rolling out open access to the chatbot Bard, its answer to ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence computer program. Gemini comes in three sizes, Ultra, Pro and Nano, allowing it to run on anything ranging from mobile devices to data centers.

• Using the three buttons along the bottom, you can type or speak a message and/or share a photo with the Assistant.
• However, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers pointed out, GPT-3.5 is over a year old, which makes this launch feel more like a catch-up rather than an outperforming.
• The update follows a number of other improvements to Bard, since its debut just eight months ago.
• In 2024, Bard Advanced will debut, which will be a new experience powered by Gemini’s most capable model.

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• As the company notes, this doesn’t just include being able to generate code but also explaining code snippets and helping users debug code.
• On top of these image-related features, Google is also expanding Bard’s coding capabilities, powered in part by Google Lens.
• According to the company, users can now save Bard conversations by adding shortcuts to the sidebar in the chatbot’s interface.
• Surely, if Google had wanted to, it could’ve built Bard right into its search engine.
• The survey’s pie chart also showed that respondents preferred ChatGPT to Bard, with 4% choosing it daily versus only 1% choosing Bard.
• For developers who use Bard’s programming features, Google is adding the ability to sync chatbot-generated Python code to Replit, a popular cloud-based software development tool.

SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation serving innovative audiences and brands, bringing together cutting-edge technology, influential content, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. At today’s Made By Google live event, the company introduced Assistant with Bard, a new version of its popular mobile personal assistant that’s now powered by generative AI technologies. Essentially a combination of Google Assistant and Bard for mobile devices, the new assistant will be able to handle a broader range of questions and tasks, ranging from simple requests like “what’s the weather? Google is not only removing its waitlist and making Bard available to anyone in over 180 countries and territories (in English), but it’s also launching support for Japanese and Korean and promises to support 40 languages in the near future.

The other enhancements that Google rolled out today focus on improving the chatbot’s usability. The internet giant also introduced a swathe of new features to Bard, though some are only available in English at first. And it can even take actions to help you out,” explains Sissie Hsiao, vice president of Google Bard and Assistant, in an interview about the new functionality. “And of course it’s on the device that you have with you at all times, which is your phone,” she says. In a world ruled by algorithms, SEJ brings timely, relevant information for SEOs, marketers, and entrepreneurs to optimize and grow their businesses — and careers.

The law, which was implemented in 2018, protects individuals from the release of their personal data with the exception of obtaining information for criminal activities and threats to public security. Before launching to the public, Gemini Pro was run through a series of industry standard benchmarks, and in six out eight of those benchmarks, Gemini outperformed GPT-3.5, Google says. That includes better performance on MMLU, or the massive multitask language understanding tasks, which is one of the key standards for measuring large AI models. However, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers pointed out, GPT-3.5 is over a year old, which makes this launch feel more like a catch-up rather than an outperforming.

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To mitigate these issues, Google allows you to choose from a few drafts of Bard’s response. Google recognizes LLMs can sometimes produce biased, misleading, or false information. In a blog post, Google describes Bard as an early AI experiment to enhance productivity, accelerate ideas, and foster curiosity. Google releases BARD, an AI chatbot entering the market to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing Chat. Next to this, the widget also moves its refresh button to a more convenient location, easily allowing up-to-the-minute information. Previously, the refresh button was tucked away at the bottom of the widget (usually requiring you to scroll down).

Coinciding with the expansion are new features focused on fine-tuning Bard’s responses and beefing up the chatbot’s potential for productivity. Some were telegraphed and previewed in early May, but today marks their broad rollout. Bard may well be a long way from ready, but the criticism of Google alone may seem unfair to anyone who has experienced the outright lies that Open AI’s and Microsoft’s chatbots are very capable of spewing out. We may just ask sometime in the near future if those people asking for a pause were right, but the fact is companies need a period of experimental public testing to polish their products. People might just want to be cautious about believing all the responses generative AI produces. Google may have been slow out of the blocks in terms of what has been an explosion of generative artificial intelligence trained on large language models, or LLMs.

Google has unveiled Bard, an AI chatbot designed to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s chatbot in their Bing search engine. While Google has yet to announce a firm launch date for its AI-enhanced Assistant with Bard, the Google app has been updated with some new designs, including our best look yet at its popup window and an interesting tab switcher. The company is also tweaking its recently launched stocks and finance widget. This is due to Google failing to answer privacy concerns from the Irish Data Protection Commission or DPC — the regulator for Google’s Dublin-based EU operations.

As the company notes, this doesn’t just include being able to generate code but also explaining code snippets and helping users debug code. While Bard initially opened for early access with an English version, starting in the U.S. and U.K. Back in March, the initial waitlist ended in May with a global rollout spanning some 180 countries and with additional support for Japanese and Korean. A notable omission thus far, however, has been the EU, with Google delaying the EU launch after a privacy regulator voiced concerns.