TECH NEWS – Google’s artificial intelligence is trying to play the catching-up game, and it is yet to be seen if the company can be successful or if the technology ends up in the infamous Google Graveyard.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is trying to catch up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (although it is pushing moral boundaries, as we wrote about recently). In the announcement, there is news about their artificial intelligence, Google Bard, which has been moved to PaLM 2, a more powerful, larger language model, so that Bard can reason, solve more complex mathematical problems, or even write code for us.

The waiting list has also been eliminated, so with availability in multiple countries and regions, there’s no need to wait for it (for us, yes, unless you’re forced to use Google Chrome here as the now-defunct Stadia forced it in its three years it was available). Bard is primarily available in English, but Japanese and Korean have been added. Forty more languages are planned to be supported by the AI. It will become more visual in its answers: we can get pictures for all our questions (for example, if we ask it about the sights of New Orleans, it will show us). We can also add pictures to our prompts.

The Bard names its sources and gets a dark theme and an export button to help developers run the code. Google will also integrate it with Adobe Firefly, giving us excellent designs courtesy of the AI capabilities. More creative minds (designers, graphic artists) can be inspired by applying more than just one-to-one what the AI has created for them.

We continue to feel that Google has put all its eggs in this basket because AI now seems to be a much more serious technological development than the metaverse (Facebook’s parent company Meta is still holding out for it…).

Source: WCCFTech