Google says Bard can now use images and give audio responses

Google is including new options to its chatbot Bard because it tries to remain forward of quickly bettering competitors from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Anthropic, and others within the white-hot generative AI house.

The search big debuted its ChatGPT competitor to the general public in March, beginning with checks within the U.S. and the U.Ok. Since then, the corporate introduced new updates at its annual developer convention Google I/O in May. OpenAI’s ChatGPT additionally introduced new options in May, together with launching the ChatGPT app for iOS and integrating voice prompts.

Here are a number of of the updates Google launched Thursday:

• Analysis of photographs: Bard will now have picture capabilities, which the corporate introduced as a Google Lens characteristic at Google IO in May. Users will have the ability to add a picture and ask Bard for details about a picture or ask it to make a caption primarily based on the picture, the corporate’s weblog submit states. The characteristic is barely accessible within the English language.
• Different kinds of responses: The firm says Bard customers can now change the tone and magnificence of Bard’s responses to 5 totally different choices: easy, lengthy, brief, skilled or informal. The firm provides the instance of asking Bard that can assist you write a market itemizing for a classic armchair, after which shorten the response. This characteristic is dwell in English and can develop to new languages quickly, it says.
• Read responses: Users can use audio to hearken to Bard’s responses, which the corporate says is useful for customers who need to hear the right pronunciation of a phrase or hearken to a poem or script. This characteristic works in over 40 languages, the corporate said.
• More languages and areas: The firm mentioned folks can use Bard in over 40 languages, together with Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish. It’s additionally accessible now in Europe, which was reportedly delayed attributable to The Irish Data Protection Commission voicing privateness considerations. “We’ve proactively engaged with experts, policymakers and privacy regulators on this expansion,” the corporate mentioned in its Thursday weblog submit.