Google Bard Update July 13, 2023

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Google has announced the latest Bard update today, and it includes over 40, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish, with access in additional regions, including Brazil and across Europe.

Google has added a feature to listen to the responses in Bard.

It's also now possible to adjust the tone and style of the responses via a drop-down, although this is currently in English only.

Google has added productivity enhancers with the ability to pin and rename conversations, as well as pick up on recent conversations from the sidebar. There a new feature to export Python code to Replit, as well as Google Colab. Sharing is now easier, and all these are available in over 40 languages.

Google Lens capability is now available in Bard, making it easier to provide information or image captions.

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[Mark_A]

If we use bard output as web site pages will they be penalised?

[Rlilly]

"If we use bard output as web site pages will they be penalised?"

i believe Google will be able to identify content written by AI and it will not help you.. and if the site is loaded with AI content, probably hurt. This is my opinion

[superclown2]

Like 100 million others I've been using ChatGPT for months now and, personally, I love it. Why should we switch to Bard?

[Mark_A]

Like 100 million others I've been using ChatGPT for months now and, personally, I love it. Why should we switch to Bard?

Because various people believe G penalises web pages that have been written with ChatGPT but might accept them if they were written in Bard ..

[superclown2]

Because various people believe G penalises web pages that have been written with ChatGPT but might accept them if they were written in Bard ..

I've no doubt they do but creating them with Bard would be even more 'brave' since Google themselves created the text, and no doubt they have their own hidden ways of recognising it.

AI driven sites are springing up like dandelions anyway. Unless Google does something stupendous; and is allowed to do so by legislators all over the world, who are terrified of AI; I reckon they will remain an also-ran. Time will tell.

[Mark_A]

Hmm, with Bard almost certainly being trained on public webmasters content, G could then just generate its own pages to respond to queries and searches. Wouldn't be ethical but that hasn't held them back at all so far from profiting from other people's content. G for a company that doesn't have any content of its own have been very inventive at finding ways to profit from other people's content thus far.

[superclown2]

Wouldn't be ethical but that hasn't held them back at all so far from profiting from other people's content.

Yes they drove a coach and horses through copyright and privacy laws right from the start by, to quote Eric Schmidt, "pushing the envelope" . Will they get away with it now though, with legal challenges coming from all round the globe?

It is possible that the whole chatbot system could be completely disrupted if enough copyright claims came in - and let's face it, pretty well 100% of content on them is plagiarised - and there are some very big players getting upset about it. No rules were ever laid down for search in the early days but legislators are looking carefully at AI to hopefully avoid mistakes made in the past.

I wonder if Google has little interest in using AI for search anyway; it would be a step backwards, financially, and there are far more uses for it. I wouldn't be surprised if chatbots went the way of CB radio in a few years.