With this announcement, Bard will be available in 180 countries and territories, and more will be added. 

Google also revealed that Bard now supports Japanese and Korean. Soon it will support 40 different languages.

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Since its initial launch, Google has also made some improvements to Bard, such as changing the large language model (LLM) to PaLM 2, which enables Bard to have more advanced math, reasoning, and coding skills. 

An upcoming update will add visuals to Bard. For example, the prompt “What are some must-see sights in New Orleans?” will provide images along with text. 

In addition to responses containing images, prompts will also be able to use images, with Google Lens being used to analyze photos. For example, you could upload a photo of your dog and ask Bard to write a funny caption for it, and it will analyze the photo, detect your dog’s breed, and write a few captions. 

Google will also be improving on the coding side of Bard, with new features like better citations that can be clicked through to see the source, dark mode, and an export button so that code can be run in Replit. 

It is also adding an export function to Gmail and Google Docs. “For example, let’s say — like me — you’re a die-hard pickleball fan. You can ask Bard to write an email invitation for your new pickleball league, summarizing the rules of the game and highlighting its inclusivity of all ages and levels. Just click the ‘draft in Gmail’ button so you can make those final tweaks before getting your pickleball league off the ground,” Sissie Hsiao, vice president and general manager for Google Assistant and Bard, wrote in a blog post. 

In the next few months, Google also has planned integrations with Adobe’s suite of products. It will integrate with Adobe Firefly, which is a set of generative AI models for image creation, and the results can be exported to Adobe Express. Other upcoming partners include Kayak, OpenTable, ZipRecruiter, Instacart, Wolfram, and Khan Academy.

“There’s a lot ahead for Bard — connecting tools from Google and amazing services across the web, to help you do and create anything you can imagine, through a fluid collaboration with our most capable large language models,” Hsaio wrote. 

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These features have been launched in over 20 different programming languages, including C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python, and Typescript. Users can also export Python code to Google Colab without needing to copy and paste. 

Bard can also now help write functions for Google Sheets and help explain code snippets for the customer. This update also enables Bard to help with the debugging of code, even code that Bard wrote itself. 

According to Google, if the user receives an error message, they can inform Bard that “this code didn’t work, please fix it,” and the tool will help debug.

In some instances, the tool can also help improve code by making it quicker or more efficient. Users can make this happen by responding to Bard’s initial output with “could you please make that code faster?” or “find error handling causes you might have missed.”

The company warned, however, that Bard is still an early experiment, and may provide inaccurate, misleading, or false information. There is still a risk that Bard may produce working code that does not provide the expected output or code that is not optimal or complete, so it is important for users to always double check the code themselves.

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Bard is intended to foster the combination of knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of Google’s language models. The AI service utilizes information from the web to offer users high-quality responses.

The team stated that Bard is initially being released with Google’s lightweight model version of LaMDA, which calls for less computing power so it can be scaled to a larger user base. 

This allows for more customer feedback which will be combined with the company’s own internal testing in order to provide users with heightened quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information. 

According to Google’s team, the company will also be bringing AI technologies into its search capabilities soon. This is geared at providing users with deeper insights and understanding through a wider range of opinions and perspectives.

“One of the most exciting opportunities is how AI can deepen our understanding of information and turn it into useful knowledge more efficiently — making it easier for people to get to the heart of what they’re looking for and get things done,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, wrote in a blog post. 

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