Google's Bard chatbot is extending its abilities with access to personalized Google apps and services including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights and hotels.
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Bard Extensions and Google Applications Integration
- Bard can now tap into individualized data from Google apps such as Gmail, Drive, and Docs, with user permission.
- Google reassured users that personal data accessed by Bard will not be used for reinforcement learning, providing another on their transparency, choice, and control tenets.
- Prompts can direct Bard to search for specific information within Gmail, but it does not store the entire inbox content.
Collaborative Characteristics and Fact-Checking Capabilities
- Users can employ Bard to summarize emails or gather trip details from email threads, and then research real-time travel information, surface YouTube recommendations for the destination, and provide Maps directions to the airport.
- Google's chatbot can also double-check its responses against Google search, improving user trust and enhancing Bard's model through user feedback on incorrect answers.
- The new extensions using non-personal data – YouTube, Flights, Hotels, and Maps – are automatically opted-in but users can choose to opt-out.
Collaboration and Language Availability
- Bard now lets users share an ongoing chat with others through a public link.
- Google plans to expand Bard's feature set to over 40 new languages beyond its existing English language capabilities.
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