“Google’s AI-powered Bard revolutionizes literary language generation”

Google has announced the relaunch of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Bard, at its I/O developer conference. The tech giant hopes to reintroduce the smart chatbot in a more positive light this time, following its rocky start. Bard, initially launched with a wrong answer, had briefly shaken Google’s stock earnings by 8%. Nonetheless, the relaunch comes with a couple of new features, including multimodal queries, support for Japanese and Korean languages, and enhanced coding capabilities. Additionally, Bard plans to become commercially safer with the inclusion of Adobe’s Firefly generative image generation service, which only uses licensed images.

### New Features of Bard

Google intends for Bard to have a universal appeal by making it available to over 180 countries and territories in English. It promises to include 40 languages in its near future and has added support for its first two, Japanese and Korean. Bard has also been equipped with multimodal queries, allowing it to respond based on images submitted. This feature, together with Bard’s image-generation ability, will make it easier for users to find tourist destinations and see popular spots.

Moreover, Google’s partnership with Adobe’s Firefly, a commercially-safe generative image generation service, will create more options for image generation. Third-party partners like Wolfram Alpha and other service providers will be added shortly, providing Bard with more capabilities, including mapping results with Google Maps and structuring data in a table. Additionally, coding capabilities have been expanded beyond generating codes to include explanations and debugging. As such, it is now capable of exporting codes to browse based IDE, Replit.

### Bard’s Early Perception and Its Launch

Google’s intention was not to get into the chatbot market initially; the main focus was on building generative AI into its products such as AI in Gmail, Sheets, among others. However, the rise of the chatbot market forced Google to launch Bard as a reactive product. While Microsoft integrated its chatbot Bing into its search engine, Google only planned to add generative chatbots in its products.

### Philosopher Discussion: Language and AI

The introduction of Bard has brought to the limelight the revolutionizing effect of Language AI. Undoubtedly, this has overall changed how we perceive AI as it transforms the written or spoken language data into text or voice output, amongst other implications. The ability to use natural language and communicate with chatbots restructures our approach to human-computer interactions, making it seemingly human-like. Undoubtedly, the advent of Language AI is already revolutionizing fields such as journalism, customer relations, and e-commerce, among others. However, with language AI comes a debate, especially surrounding ethics, including privacy and the extent of human-machine interaction. It is also noteworthy that, while there are already several chatbots in the market, including Google’s Bard, much is to be desired in making them more human-like and more advanced in understanding the context of spoken or written languages.