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Speaking at Google’s annual developer event Google I/O 2023 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said he wants to make AI a tool to help everyone.
Google continues like this in its competition with Microsoft, a company that last week opened to everyone its free artificial intelligence tool, Bing, which is capable of generating texts and images.
For her part, Sissie Hsiao, vice president of Google and general manager of Google Assistant and Bard, said that “very soon” Bard will be available in “the top 40 languages” of the world.
Another novelty is that users will be able to export the answers obtained by Bard to Gmail and Google Docs. “Since people often ask Bard for help in drafting emails and documents,” Hsiao said.
One of the innovations most applauded by the massive audience was that the chatbot can also be used on a black background and not just white, as up to now.
multimodal responses
Just like Microsoft announced last week, Google’s chatbot will “soon” give multimodal responses, that is, it will not only respond with text, but also with images.
This new function will operate in two ways: on the one hand, it will incorporate images in the answers, but on the other, it will be the users themselves who will be able to ask Bard questions with photos.
An example of this last case is that a user can upload a photo -with Google Lens image recognition- of a drawer full of art materials and ask the chatbot to prepare a list of activities that can be practiced with children with the materials that has in front
“In the coming months, we will integrate Adobe Firefly -which allows you to generate images using text- in Bard. That way, people will be able to generate new images,” she noted.
Last week Microsoft integrated DALL-E 2 technology from Open AI (creators of ChatGPT and DALL-E) to allow its users to create images using text as well.
The source of the answer
Starting next week there will be more transparency into the source of the information in Bard’s response, the company promised.
“Starting next week, we will make the code sections even more precise by displaying the specific code blocks that are fetched along with any relevant license information. And this will also apply to the citation of narrative content from across the web,” the company announced.
In addition, Bard’s extensions will apply to many of the apps and services people already use at Google, like Maps, Sheets, Gmail, Docs, and more.
However, the company did not give a date for this last step.
Palm 2, Google’s new language model
Another big announcement of the day at Google headquarters was the release of PaLM 2, the new language model (LLM) from Google, which is also behind Bard.
This is an update that will allow for many improvements, such as improved math, logic and reasoning skills, and more recently, programming capabilities, according to Pichai.
PaLM 2 includes more than 100 languages and has been trained on 20 programming languages.
The entry Google opens its artificial intelligence tool was first published in EFE Noticias.