Google’s Bard AI chat bot simply obtained a set of updates that may lastly give it widespread attraction. On Tuesday, Google introduced the combination of its generative AI into its apps and providers—which means now you can use Bard to dig by means of your messages, paperwork, and extra to assist pace up life’s each day duties.
Introduced on Tuesday in a weblog put up, Google says its enhancements to its PaLM 2 AI mannequin allows new options that embody Bard Extensions, which permits Bard to connect with Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Maps, Journey, and extra. The thought is to make the chat bot extra like a private assistant—one that may comb by means of your Google account to assist pace up work like catching up on e mail or making use of for a job.
Google’s examples cowl these actual situations, with one exhibiting a mum or dad’s request for a abstract of latest emails from their little one’s college. Bard provides a brief abstract of two emails, together with direct hyperlinks to these messages in Gmail. One other suggests asking Bard to create a brief private assertion based mostly on a resume created in Google Drive, in addition to assist with drafting a canopy letter. You’ll be able to even get extra intricate help from Bard, like asking it to seek out the proposed dates for a visit, flight choices and lodge choices for that interval, after which a steered itinerary.
After all, privateness is at all times a priority with Google—particularly in case you’re permitting its AI (and the AI’s human handlers) to have direct entry to your account. As a part of the announcement, Google guarantees that private data will likely be protected, saying in its put up: “For those who select to make use of the Workspace extensions, your content material from Gmail, Docs, and Drive will not be seen by human reviewers, utilized by Bard to indicate you adverts, or used to coach the Bard mannequin.”
If that satisfies your considerations and also you need to attempt it for your self, head to bard.google.com, after which kind in a question that entails one in every of Google’s providers (like Gmail). You’ll get a immediate to approve connecting to Google Workspace. You’ll be able to then begin placing queries to the bot, although in my temporary testing, you’ll have to attempt a number of search queries earlier than you get the precise data you’re searching for. (And generally, it nonetheless fully falls flat or hits a tough limitation.) Google’s AI can’t learn our minds but in its early levels—which might be a very good factor.
