Google’s preliminary launch of Bard, its very personal “AI” chatbot based mostly on massive language fashions, felt very very similar to an improvised response to all of the traction that ChatGPT was getting within the media – full with Google I/O changing into mainly a ridiculous try and steal again a number of the highlight.
Effectively, just a few months have handed, and Bard is now maturing. Slowly, however certainly, extra options are being added, which ought to make it extra helpful than it is ever been (not that that is saying a lot, however nonetheless). The corporate immediately unveiled Bard’s “July replace” (thus strongly implying it’s going to get month-to-month updates any further), however earlier than we get into what’s new we must always speak about availability.
Bard is now lastly accessible throughout Europe, and it is also dwell in Brazil. Thus, you should utilize it in over 230 nations and territories worldwide, a full checklist of which will be discovered right here. However maybe that is not essentially the most spectacular feat. The truth that you possibly can discuss to Bard in additional than 40 languages might be. The checklist is on the identical web page because the nations.
By way of new options, Bard now allows you to hearken to its responses, and simply regulate them. You get 5 completely different tone and magnificence choices to take action: easy, lengthy, brief, skilled, informal. This function is at the moment dwell in English and can develop to new languages quickly.
You too can pin and rename conversations, export Python code to Replit, and use pictures in your prompts (dwell in English for now). Sharing half or all of a dialog with Bard is less complicated too, with shareable hyperlinks.
