TECH NEWS – Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is seriously planning with its artificial intelligence Bard.

The company has already decided to integrate the AI-powered chatbot into all the services it offers, so it could soon appear in many Google products, even those used by readers (where we are essentially the product because of its free nature). It’s coming to one place soon, and it might even be good: Google Messages could get the technology in the near future.

On Twitter, Assemble Debug reported that Google Messages version 20240111_04_RC00 allows RCS chats with Bard to be initiated from within the application. The bot can also be added to conversations with other users, which could be a weird but useful solution (for example, if you’re tired of your boss’s whining and would rather have lunch, maybe it can answer for you, lol). In the screenshot below, you can see that users can write messages, translate them, identify images, and explore other interests. It also takes into account the user’s location and previous chats to provide more tailored and relevant responses.

Bard is not yet available, but even if it is, users must be at least 18 years old. In Google Messages, communications with Bard will not be encrypted at the endpoints, and Google has stated that all chats and related data will be stored for 18 months. The company has also said that users should not write messages that they do not want reviewers to see, so sharing and using sensitive information is discouraged. When turned off, Bard stores data for 72 hours.

Knowing Google, we have only one question. If the technology is publicly available in Google Messages, the company will turn it on by default, right? That’s what we expect them to do, and we need to turn it off.

Source: WCCFTech