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Google introduced a serious improve to its Bard conversational AI system right this moment, increasing its capabilities to attach with Google’s hottest productiveness apps and companies. The enhancements are aimed toward making Bard extra helpful in day-to-day duties whereas additionally addressing considerations about accuracy.
Beginning right this moment, Bard can now instantly entry data from apps like Gmail, Docs, Maps, Flights, and YouTube to offer extra complete and personalised responses inside a dialog. For instance, when planning a visit, Bard can now routinely pull related dates, flight data, instructions and sightseeing suggestions — all inside one dialog.
The improve comes after Bard’s underwhelming public launch in March, which showcased factual inaccuracies in lots of its responses. Google is hoping the mixing with its search engine will assist Bard turn into extra correct. Customers can now click on a “Google it” button to fact-check Bard’s responses in opposition to listed net data inside the chat.
Google emphasised that it stays dedicated to defending customers’ private data following the replace. If somebody chooses to make use of the Workspace extensions, their content material from Gmail, Docs, and Drive is just not seen by human reviewers, utilized by Bard to point out them advertisements, or used to coach the Bard mannequin. Customers stay in command of their privateness settings.
The corporate has additionally made it simpler to construct on others’ conversations with Bard. Beginning right this moment, when somebody shares a Bard chat with a consumer via a public hyperlink, the receiving particular person can proceed the dialog and ask Bard extra questions on that subject or use it as a place to begin for their very own concepts.
Google can also be increasing entry to current English language options reminiscent of the flexibility to add photos with Lens, get Search photos in responses, and modify Bard’s responses to greater than 40 languages.
Whereas nonetheless restricted, Bard’s new options level to a future the place AI assistants can seamlessly mix conversational skills with companies like e-mail and paperwork to spice up productiveness. As Bard continues to enhance, it could additional combine with different Google choices like calendar, pictures and analytics.
The Bard upgrades roll out beginning right this moment. Google plans so as to add extra languages and integrations within the coming months because it continues to refine the expertise responsibly.