Google is turning its Bard AI chatbot into a personal assistant by tapping into products like Gmail and Maps, giving it a key advantage in the AI race

Tue, 09/19/2023 - 06:01

Sundar Pichai onstage in front of a presentation titled — Sundar Pichai onstage at Google I/O 2023.
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Google is supercharging Bard by giving it access to its most popular apps.
It's a big leap forward as the company continues to chase OpenAI.
Bard is now also set to highlight parts of responses that may be hallucinations.

Google is supercharging its Bard AI chatbot by giving it access to the company's most popular apps, such as Gmail, Maps, and YouTube.

The new abilities should make Bard significantly more useful, underscoring Google's advantage in tapping hugely popular existing products as it continues to race against rivals such as OpenAI.