Google launched yesterday in Spain and in the rest of the European countries its artificial intelligence chat Bard, which for the first time interacts in Spanish, both written and spoken, and reaches 40 languages. Conversational AI comes with the possibility of providing responses 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 United States and the United Kingdom, Bard incorporates some new functions designed to increase productivity, such as anchoring the conversations that are maintained with the AI in a sidebar, exporting programming code in the Python language to the Replit collaborative browser, sharing a chat with contacts and the ability to upload images.
Jack Krawczyk, Google's director of product management, noted that Bard "is a tool to heighten the imagination, a different form of AI." In his opinion, this AI that Google makes available to the public for free is "powered by the world's most powerful computer, the human brain" and its "ability to imagine."
The person in charge 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've been working to get them into the market, but they're still going through that accountability process, we're 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, he can value it positively and, conversely, do so negatively if he interprets it as harmful. In that case, it goes to a human review.
Precisely these reviews were questioned yesterday in information from the Bloomberg agency, which revealed in a report that the review work falls on thousands of external contractors who pay their workers wages of $14 per hour for tasks with minimal training and low " hectic deadlines. A Google contract employee who works 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 said the ratings are just "a piece of data that, coupled with 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."
