Google has announced new features for its AI chatbot Bard. This includes the ability for Bard to answer audibly and respond to visual prompts. Chatbots are also expanding in Europe and Brazil.

and blog post On Thursday, Google senior product director Jack Krawczyk said Bard is now available in more than 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish. New updates from Google will be available soon.

The voice feature uses Google’s text-to-speech technology, allowing chatbots to generate natural-sounding voices. In addition to reading text, people can ask Bard questions and Bard can speak the answers.

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Bard changing reaction

Bard’s new features apply globally and allow users to customize their interactions with AI. People can now choose the tone and style of Bard’s responses, pin and rename conversations, export code to more places, use images in prompts, and more. became.

The Visual feature allows users to show Bard a picture and it creates text related to the image.Kraczyk Said This update gives users more control over their Bard experience, making it easier to use AI for a variety of purposes.

“Hearing something aloud can sometimes help you approach an idea in a different way. This is especially helpful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word, or if you want to hear a poem or script.” He said.

You can now access Bard in new languages ​​and countries, customize your responses, and add images to your prompts. Click here for details ↓ https://t.co/k0s7wshyMT

— Google (@Google) July 13, 2023

In addition to the new features, Google said it was expanding its global footprint to Europe and Brazil as Bard stepped up its competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The tech company said its chatbots are now available in “most languages ​​around the world…the most widely spoken languages.”

Bard was not introduced in the European Union due to privacy concerns of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the European Union’s main data regulator. The DPC said Google has not provided enough information about how Bard protects user privacy.

Krawczyk said the company has since met with regulators to reaffirm the privacy measures in place for Bard.

daring experiment

Bard’s vice president of engineering, Amar Subramani, said people could opt out of having their data collected, Reuters report. However, he declined to comment on whether there are plans to develop a Bard app.

“Bird is an experiment. We want to act boldly and responsibly,” Subramany told reporters at a news conference.

The artificial intelligence industry has seen a wave of massive investment over the past six months, fueled by the phenomenal success of ChatGPT. Investments are being made despite concerns about the dangers of AI, including threats to humanity equating to nuclear war.

As MetaNews reports, Elon Musk has just launched an AI startup, xAI, built by a team of former Google and OpenAI engineers. The billionaire has previously warned against the development of AI, calling for a moratorium and tighter regulation on the emerging industry.

Another of ChatGPT’s rivals, American AI company Anthropic’s Claude 2, went live earlier this week. Chatbots can summarize large amounts of text, such as entire novels.

Anthropic says Claude 2 is also available to the public in the US and UK. The chatbot uses a security technique that the company describes as “constitutional AI”, referring to a “set of principles for judging the text it generates.”

Despite rapid development, public interest in generative AI conversational tools is waning. According to data, ChatGPT website traffic he dropped nearly 10% in June. This is the first time traffic has dropped since ChatGPT launched in November.

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