Google's AI chatbot, Bard, expands to Europe, Brazil, to take on ChatGPT
Google is positioning Bard’s spoken responses as a helpful way to “correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script.” You’ll be able to hear spoken responses by entering a prompt and selecting the sound icon. Spoken responses will be available in more than 40 languages and are live now, according to Google.
In terms of new features, Google is letting you customize the tone and style of Bard responses. A new dropdown menu, similar to Gmail and Docs, located next to thumbs up/down, offers five options: Simple, long, short, professional, or casual.
Similarly, Bard can read aloud (text-to-speech) its responses in over 40 languages when you tap the sound icon in the top-right corner: “This is especially helpful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script.”
Google is also launching four features to boost productivity. Pinning chats will let you save an exchange (prompts + answers) in full as a quick way to return to past searches. You can also have “multiple conversations going at once.”
These pinned conversations, which can be renamed, appear in a new sidebar. There’s a “New chat” button at the top, followed by the “Pinned” section, as well as “Recent” conversations. Google has moved Bard Activity, FAQ, and other settings to the top-right corner.
You can also create links to Bard’s response as a way to “share your ideas and creations with others.”
Shareable links make seeing your chat and any sources just a click away so others can seamlessly view what you created with Bard.
In addition to Google Colab, Bard can now export Python code to Replit. These three features are available in over 40 languages.
Lastly, Bard’s Google Lens integration is now live and will let you upload images (plus button next to the text field) and ask questions about them. Available in English, Lens is powering object recognition, while Bard can also come up with captions.
You can now upload images to Google Bard and have it analyse them.
First, important to note that Bard won't accept any images with humans.
So here is an image uploaded (where the face was cropped out, intention was to test a "shopping" use case):
First, I asked it to find the clothing item:
Then, I asked Bard for a description
I asked Bard for any downsides. Bard told me:
To try click the link: https://bard.google.com/
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