New York (EFE).- Google launched this Thursday its free artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Bard, in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Hindi, among more than 40 languages, when until now you could only interact with this chatbot in English, Japanese and Korean.
The technological giant also opened this tool to Brazil and all of Europe, among other places.
These changes allow Bard to compete more closely against Bing, Microsoft’s AI tool powered by OpenIA technology, which from the outset could be used in several languages, including Spanish.
Answers in all modalities of Spanish
Romina Stella, Product Manager for Bard, told Efe at a round table with journalists that this model is capable of reproducing and understanding colloquial Spanish from all Spanish-speaking countries.
“Personally, many times I ask him to give me an answer in Argentine Spanish or to give me an answer in another Spanish and Bard can generate that content, he even answers me with Argentinian colloquial expressions,” Stella stressed.
The California-based Argentine also stressed that the reason Bard can do this is because of Google’s language model (LLM), PaLM 2, which includes more than 100 languages and has been trained in 20 programming languages.
Listen to the answers aloud
Another novelty that Google will have from today is that its users will be able to “listen to the response” given by the chatbot.
“This is especially useful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script,” Jack Krawczyk, Bard’s product manager, explained in a statement.
Also, starting today, Bard users will be able to “pin and rename conversations” they have had with the chatbot.
Finally, users who communicate with Bard in English will be able to change the tone and style of Bard’s responses to five different options: simple, long, short, professional, or informal.