At the I/O developer conference, Google boss Sundar Pichai presented numerous innovations.
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mountain view Google CEO Sundar Pichai is putting his faith in artificial intelligence (AI). “We use AI to make our products radically more useful,” announced the CEO on Wednesday at the annual I/O developer conference. The text robot Bard will be improved and unlocked for all users. Google Internet search is being expanded with AI solutions. And AI support is being integrated into products such as the email service Gmail and the mapping service Maps.
Bard was Google’s answer to the success of the text robot ChatGPT from the start-up OpenAI. Two months ago, Bard was initially activated for selected users in the USA and England. In tests, however, Bard performed significantly weaker than ChatGPT and produced several errors during the first product presentation. With an update to the new language model PaLM 2, the capabilities of Bard should now be greatly improved. “Bard has gotten much better,” promised the responsible Google manager Sissie Hsiao.
German language is still missing
However, German is not initially available as the language for many of the innovations. Bard now supports Japanese and Korean in addition to English. Other languages are to follow. When asked, however, Google did not provide any information as to when a German-language version would also be activated.
Due to a cooperation with the image specialist Adobe, Bard should also be able to create artificially generated images on command in the future. Again, Google did not provide any information about the start of the functions.
Google’s rival Microsoft is a close partner of OpenAI. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced plans to integrate OpenAI’s AI technologies into all of the company’s products. This includes AI support in Office products such as Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
Google has now announced similar functions for its own solutions. Under the name Duet AI, Google customers should be able to use an AI companion that can help with writing texts, create images for presentations or produce spreadsheets for business calculations. “We will roll out these functions over the course of the year,” said the responsible Google manager Aparna Pappu.
Google also wants to add AI functions to its core product Internet search. In the future, the search should be significantly better at understanding complex queries. During her presentation, Google employee Cathy Edwards had suitable bicycles selected for a hilly, five-mile route. “Google can now understand even complicated search inputs,” promised Edwards. Google summarizes the functions under the term “Search Generative Experience”. They are to be made available to test users “in the coming weeks”.
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