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There has been a lot of excitement surrounding Google's AI chatbot Bard - a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which is set to become "more widely available to the public in the coming weeks." However, at least one expert has pointed out that in its demo, Bard made a factual error.
As a result of the AI competition between Google and OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company that created ChatGPT and provides artificial intelligence services for its products, Google has now integrated its chatbot Bard into apps like YouTube, Gmail and Drive, according to a company announcement, published Tuesday.
In New York, a Google executive said on Thursday at the Reuters NEXT conference that the company's experimental chatbot Bard represents a path to the development of another product that will reach two billion users.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Google's Product Lead Jack Krawczyk commented that Bard has laid the foundation for Google to attract even more customers with the help of its artificial intelligence feature, which enables consumers to brainstorm and get information using new artificial intelligence.
It is possible, for instance, to ask Bard to plan a trip for an upcoming date, complete with flight options and your choice of airline. Users could also ask the tool to summarize meeting notes that have been made in Google Drive documents that they have recently uploaded.
Several improvements will be made to Bard this coming Tuesday, including connections to Google's other services.
The chatbot is also capable of communicating with users in various languages, with the ability to perform a variety of fact-checking functions as well as a broader upgrade to the larger language model that is the foundation of the tool. Google's Bard has been improving its features for nearly six months after it was first introduced to the public, marking the biggest update to the program in that period.
Among the tech giants, Google, Microsoft, and ChatGPT creator OpenAI are racing against one another, as they roll out increasingly sophisticated consumer-facing artificial intelligence technologies, and they hope to convince users of their value as more than just a gimmick to them.
It is now believed that Google, which recently issued an internal code red when OpenAI beat it to the release of its artificial intelligence chatbot, is using its other widely used software programs to make Bard more useful as a result of the code red.
It’s relatively unknown that Bard has received the same amount of attention as ChatGPT.
According to data from Similarweb, a company that analyzes data for companies, ChatGPT had nearly 1.5 billion desktop and mobile visits in August, substantially more than Google’s A.I. tool and other competitors, which had just 50 million visits. Bard recorded just under 200 million desktop and mobile internet visits throughout August, while ChatGPT by OpenAI also registered 200 million visits during the same period.
In an interview, Jack Krawczyk, Google's product lead for Bard, stated that Google was aware of the limitations that had caused the chatbot to not appeal to as many people as it should have. Users had told Mr. Krawczyk that the product was neat and novel, but that it did not integrate very well with their personal lives.
Earlier this month, Google released what it called Bard Extensions, which is an extension of the ChatGPT plug-in that OpenAI announced in March, which allows ChatGPT to work with updated information provided by third-party companies such as Expedia, Instacart, and OpenTable, their own web services and voice apps.
As a result of the new updates, Google is going to be trying to replicate some of the search engine's capabilities by including Flights, Hotels, and Maps, so users can conduct travel and transportation research using Google's search engine. In addition, Bard may be closer to becoming a more personalized assistant for its users, where they can ask which emails they missed and which points in a document are of most importance to them.
With the help of Google's large language model, an artificial intelligence algorithm trained on vast amounts of data, Bard had been able to assist students with writing drafts of essays or planning their friend's baby showers.
As a result of these new extensions, Bard will now draw information from a host of Google services, as well. Now, Bard will be able to retrieve information from YouTube, Google Maps, Flights, and Hotels as well.
According to Google, Bard can be accessed through several other services and ask the service for things like "Show me how to write a good man speech and show me YouTube videos about it for inspiration," or suggestions for travel, complete with driving directions, etc.
The Bard extensions can be disabled by the user at any moment by choosing to do so.
It is also possible for users to link their Gmail, Docs and Google Drive accounts with Bard to the tool so that it will be able to help them analyze and manage their data.
For instance, the tool might be able to help with queries such as: "Find the most recent lease agreement in my Drive and calculate how much my security deposit was," Google said in a statement.
In a statement, the firm listed that the company will not use users' personal Google Workspace information to train Bard or to serve targeted advertising to users and that users can withdraw their permission at any time in case they do not want it to access their personal information.
By giving Bard access to a wealth of personal information as well as popular services such as Gmail, Google Maps, and YouTube, Bard is, in theory, making itself even more helpful for its users and gaining their confidence as a result.
Using Bard, Google posits that a person planning a group trip to the Grand Canyon may be able to get the dates that suit everyone, get flight and hotel options, provide directions based on Maps, and also take advantage of videos with a variety of useful information available on YouTube.
