Google has announced the launch in Spain and in the rest of the European countries and Brazil of its artificial intelligence Bard, which for the first time interacts in Spanish, written and spoken, and already reaches 40 languages. The company has reported that it is also training its model in the other official Spanish languages, Catalan, Galician and Basque, and that it will launch their corresponding versions later. Bard lands in Europe with two updates and four new features.
The first update is that you will be able to listen to the responses, not just read them. To do this, you just have to enter a question, select the speaker mode and listen to how the artificial intelligence responds. The second improvement is that the user will be able to adjust the degree of complexity of the response. The five available styles, which were already in English and will be incorporated into the new languages are: simple, long, short, professional or informal.
New features are intended to increase productivity. The first allows you to pin and organize the conversations that are maintained with the AI in a sidebar, so that they can be retrieved at any time, continue with them or modify them. The second is for developers: you can export programming code in the Python language to the Replit collaborative browser, where you can build apps. The third is a link to share a Bard chat with contacts and the fourth is the ability of Google's AI to work with images, which can now be uploaded to the chat, to identify them and help the user with their request.
Jack Krawczyk, director of product management at Google, has pointed out that Bard "is a tool to increase 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 most powerful computer in the world, the human brain" and its "ability to imagine."
Krawczyk has given an example of how to use this artificial intelligence. "I tend to be a very unstructured thinker. So at the beginning of the day, I often open Bard, hit the input button on my microphone, and speak for two or three minutes because I think I have 27 thoughts in my head. And I just want to organize them and I think 'oh my gosh help me make sense of my day' And what Bard is able to do is take the text that I provide, synthesize it and break it down and say 'actually these are the three themes of what you're saying and what it contributes in a certain way is that it puts my words into a more structured thought".
"What generative AI as a tool introduces -according to Krawczyk- is a new computing capacity. It is not just about presenting the information that already exists. It is about helping to expand that information in a creative way. Computers are, for the first time, able to help us with creativity. But that creativity comes from our brain's ability to come up with an idea. That's why we talk about augmented imagination." "It's really the person who has the idea and we think these capabilities are absolutely profound and what we'll be able to create we think is a great story of hope for this technology to allow our brains to go from a dream or an idea to a concrete reality. faster by exploring new possibilities", he pointed out.
Google has built Bard "on the pillars of privacy, transparency, choice and control." The company says that giving Bard the ability to have the data stored allows you to resume a conversation later. If the user detects that a piece of content is useful, they can evaluate it positively and, conversely, negatively if they interpret it as harmful. In that case, it goes to human review. Krawczyk has assured that they are working 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 still training them."
