After a delay due to data privacy concerns, Google’s chatbot Bard is launched in more than 40 languages and to the EU today.
Bard received many new features from the internet giant, some of which are only available in English.
Google teased Bard in February in a somewhat hasty response to ChatGPT’s meteoric rise, a super clever search engine/chatbot that uses large language models (LLMs) to produce fresh material from basic instructions. OpenAI, backed by Google rival Microsoft, created ChatGPT.
In March, Bard opened for early access in English in the U.S. and U.K. The waitlist concluded in May with a global rollout in 180 countries and support for Japanese and Korean. After a privacy authority raised concerns, Google delayed the EU debut. Google informed the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) of its plans to launch Bard in the EU, but it didn’t provide enough information to address the regulator’s data privacy concerns.
Google may have satisfied the DPC with today’s rollout.
“We’ve proactively engaged with experts, policymakers and privacy regulators on this expansion,” Bard product lead Jack Krawczyk and VP of engineering Amarnag Subramanya wrote in a blog post.
Google calls its latest version its “biggest expansion to date,” launching worldwide with support for Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, German, and Hindi. Brazil currently sells Bard.
Fine-tuning
New improvements to improve Bard’s replies and chatbot efficiency coincide with the growth. Some were previewed in early May but released today.
Bard’s responses can now be “simple,” “long,” “short,” “professional,” or “casual.” The setting alters Bard’s default prompt responses to match the user’s tone and manner, starting with English.
Bard now speaks thanks to text-to-speech AI. Click the new sound icon next to a prompt to hear the chatbot’s responses in over 40 languages.
Bard may now export Python code to Replit, the browser-based integrated development environment, for productivity. Bard will examine photos with prompts (only in English for now). Users can now pin, rename, and resume Bard discussions. Links make Bard’s comments easier to share.
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“Curiosity and imagination drive human creativity,” Krawczyk and Subramanya wrote. “That’s why we created Bard: to help you explore that curiosity, augment your imagination, and ultimately get your ideas off the ground—not just by answering your questions, but by helping you build on them.”
Google’s Bard chatbot initially struggled to match ChatGPT’s response quality. Even Google personnel called the chatbot “worse than useless” and a “pathological liar” for its false responses and citations. At Bard’s launch, the stock dropped 8%.
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Google says Bard’s math and programming skills are improving. It can explain code, organise data in a table, and surface graphics in its responses, thanks to extensions from Google’s apps and services and third-party partners like Adobe.
Bloomberg reported this week that Bard’s trainers are typically underpaid and overworked, another black eye for Google. Some contractors earn $14 per hour, receive little training, and must conduct difficult Bard audits in minutes.
Bloomberg’s report follows an April Insider report that Bard-testing contractors weren’t given enough time to verify the chatbot’s best answer. That appears unchanged.
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