Google has introduced new options for its Bard chatbot on the I/O 2023 occasion. Initially opened to the general public in February this 12 months, Bard was solely out there within the US and UK by way of a waitlist. Google has now eliminated the waitlist and opened up entry to Bard in additional than 180 international locations and territories, together with India. The tech large has additionally made Bard out there in Japanese and Korean, and guarantees so as to add 40 extra languages to the combination.
Powered by PaLM 2
Google Bard is now powered by the corporate’s newest language mannequin referred to as PaLM2. The swap to PaLM 2 has introduced in some current enhancements in Bard together with coding capabilities, superior math and reasoning expertise and extra. Google says coding has turn out to be probably the most in style issues to do with Bard.
Speaking about PaLM 2 in a weblog publish, Google mentioned, “We not too long ago moved Bard to PaLM 2, a much more succesful giant language mannequin, which has enabled a lot of our current enhancements — together with superior math and reasoning expertise and coding capabilities”
Extra visuals
Google Bard will quickly embrace capabilities to reply to prompts utilizing photographs to offer customers a a lot better sense of what they’re on the lookout for.
Explaining the brand new modifications, Google mentioned, “Coming quickly, Bard will turn out to be extra visible each in its responses and your prompts. You’ll have the ability to ask it issues like, “What are some must-see sights in New Orleans?” — and along with textual content, you’ll get a useful response together with wealthy visuals “
Coding upgrades
Google is incorporating builders’ suggestions to usher in some upgrades to Bard. The search large is making supply citations extra exact, including help for a darkish theme together with the power to export and run code with our Replit.
Google says Bard has already realized greater than 20 programming languages together with Python, C++, Go, Java Script, Ruby and even Google Sheets.
Plugin Assist
Much like GPT-4, Google will usher in help for extensions together with Kayak, OpenTable, ZipRecruiter, Instacart, Wolfram and Khan Academy. Google can even be including capabilities of current Google apps together with Docs, Drive, Gmail, Maps, and many others to Bard.
Textual content-to-image technology
Taking the competitors to Microsoft’s Bing-powered by GPT-4, Google has partnered with Adobe Firefly to permit customers to generate photographs with a single immediate. Notably, Microsoft’s new Bing not too long ago gained the power to generate photographs utilizing OpenAI’s DallE mannequin.
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Printed: 11 Might 2023, 07:57 AM IST
Supply: Live Mint