Bard Update: New Features for More Creativity, Productivity, and Confidence

Google AI recently announced a major update to Bard, its large language model. The update includes several new features that make Bard more capable, intuitive, and helpful than ever before. Google believe in rapid iteration and bringing the best of Bard to the world. People’s feedback has helped us unlock the most capable version of Bard yet, for stronger collaboration in languages and countries worldwide.  Bard is now more intuitive, imaginative, and responsive than ever before. Whether you want to collaborate on creative projects, translate languages, learn new topics, or get help with coding, Bard can help you explore possibilities with greater quality and accuracy.

Bard, Google AI’s large language model, has received a major update with new features that make it more capable, intuitive, and helpful than ever before. Bard can now access helpful information from Google apps, collaborate with you on your Gmail, Docs, and Drive content, double-check its responses with Google It v2, and build off of shared conversations. Bard also supports more features in all supported languages, including uploading images with Google Lens, getting Google Search images in responses, and modifying Bard’s responses.

New Features

1. Access helpful information from Google apps: Bard can now retrieve and help you work with real-time info from Maps, YouTube, Hotels and Flights. You can pull together what you need across information sources and bring ideas to life easier and faster.
2. Collaborate with Bard on your content in Gmail, Docs & Drive: You can enable Bard to interact with information from your Gmail, Docs and Drive so you can find, summarize and answer questions across your personal content. Your Google Workspace data won’t be used to train Bard’s public model, and you can disable it anytime.
3. Double-check Bard’s responses with Google It v2: With the power of Google Search, the [G] button can help you double-check Bard’s AI-generated responses. Starting with English, when a statement can be evaluated, you’ll see it highlighted in Bard’s response and can click to learn more.
4. Build off of conversations shared with you: When someone shares a Bard conversation with you through Bard’s public link sharing feature, you can continue that conversation in your account and build off what they started.
5. More features are available in all supported languages: You can upload images with Google Lens, get Google Search images in responses, and modify Bard’s responses to be simpler, longer, shorter, more professional or more casual in all supported languages. Upload an image of a painting and ask Bard to write a poem about it. Take a photo of a recipe and ask Bard to translate it into another language. Provide Bard with a list of images and ask it to generate a story based on them.
6. Image prompts: Upload an image and ask Bard to write a poem, story, or script about it. You can also ask Bard to generate code, translate text, or answer questions about the image.
7. Customizable responses: Tailor Bard’s responses to your needs by making them simpler, longer, shorter, more professional, or more casual. This is great for different writing styles and audiences.
8. Google Search images in responses: Bard can include Google Search images in its responses, which can help you visualize ideas and learn new things.

Benefits

1. More powerful: Bard’s new features make it more powerful than ever before. You can now access information from more sources, collaborate on your content more easily, and double-check Bard’s responses with Google Search.
2. More creative: Bard’s new features also make it more creative. You can now use images in your prompts and responses, and you can customize Bard’s responses to align with your style and needs.
3. More helpful: Bard is now more helpful than ever before. It can help you with a wider range of tasks, from research and writing to coding and planning.n responses, and modify Bard’s responses to be simpler, longer, shorter, more professional or more casual in all supported languages.

How to Get Started

To start with Bard’s new features, visit the Bard website and sign up for an account. Once you’re signed in, you can explore the new features and see how Bard can help you with your work and creative projects. For example, to access Bard’s new ability to access information from Google apps, click the Bard Extensions button in the Bard toolbar. Then, select the Google app you want to access and click Connect.

Conclusion

Bard’s latest update makes it more powerful, more creative, and more helpful than ever before. With its new features, Bard can help you with a wider range of tasks and innovatively bring your ideas to life. Finally, Bard now supports several new features in all supported languages. This includes uploading images with Google Lens, getting Google Search images in responses, and modifying Bard’s responses to be simpler, longer, shorter, more professional, or more casual. These features give you more control over your creative process and help you bring your ideas to life.