Google launched yesterday in Spain and the rest of the European countries its Bard artificial intelligence chat, which for the first time interacts in Spanish, both written and spoken, and reaches 40 languages. Conversational AI comes with the ability to provide answers by voice and allows you to adjust their degree of complexity: simple, long, short, professional or informal.

Compared to the first version that was available for the US and UK, Bard incorporates some new features designed to increase productivity, such as anchoring conversations held with the AI ??in a sidebar, exporting programming code in the Python language in the collaborative browser Replit, sharing a chat with contacts and the ability to upload images.

Jack Krawczyk, director of product management at Google, noted that Bard “is a tool to augment the imagination, a different form of AI.” In his opinion, this AI that Google makes available to the public for free is “driven by the most powerful computer in the world, the human brain” and its “capacity to imagine”.

The head of Google explained that Google is training its AI model with the other co-official languages ??in Spain: “We will include them in future iterations. We have been working to introduce them to the market, but they are still going through that responsibility process, we are training them”.

Krawczyk commented that Bard has been created “under the pillars of privacy, transparency, choice and control”. If the user detects that a piece of content is useful, they can evaluate it positively and, on the contrary, do so negatively if they interpret it as harmful.

Precisely these reviews were questioned yesterday in a Bloomberg report, which revealed in a report that the review work falls to thousands of outside contractors who pay their workers $14 an hour for tasks with training minimum and under “frantic terms”.

A Google contract worker working for Appen said in a letter to Congress in May that the speed with which they have to review content could make Bard a “flawed” and “dangerous” product.

A Google spokesperson indicated that the ratings are just “a piece of data that, in addition to internal development and testing,” allows them to evaluate the AI. Google recalled that “it is not the employer of any of these workers” and that it is the employers “who determine their working conditions”.