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Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more.

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet.

Google has updated Bard again today so that it provides helpful summaries. It will also let you see which parts of the answer are from sources linked at the bottom of the response.

Google announces a new Search Labs portal for users to test new developing search features. It gives access to features that may be implemented in future and share feedback directly with the teams.

Google Search will be getting some generative AI features that will allow users to ask follow-up questions for text searches, and will also help with the company's shopping search features.

Google announced a ton of new and upcoming updates for its Bard chatbot and also revealed there is no longer a waitlist for trying it out. The chatbot also used the more advanced PaLM 2 LLM.

Google Bard now has a Dark theme that can be toggled in the lower left of the chatbot's interface. It's not clear if automatic theme switching is supported but switching to Dark mode takes one tap.

Google is developing a generative AI chatbot for Wendy's that will take drive thru orders from a single company-owned restaurant in June. It's likely it will expand to more locations in the future.

Google is also rumored to announce even more AI features at I/O on May 10, including an update to Bard that will allow it to solve more complex math and coding problems and more Workspace AI features.

Google I/O 2023 may only be held on one day this year, May 10, but it looks like it could be one of the biggest events in Google's developer conference's history, with multiple hardware reveals.

The latest update for the Bard chatbot AI will now allow Google Workspace admins to enable access to Bard for their users, allowing them to use it for business or enterprise tasks.

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching its initial review into generative AI to see how it could affect competition or affect consumers. It'll publish a report in September.

The homescreen widget would be a more direct way for Pixel phones to access Google's Bard chatbot AI, rather than use a web browser. There's no word on when this new feature might launch.

Among other announcements, the Biden Administration revealed that companies with AI systems like Microsoft and Google have agreed to have them tested at the annual DEFCON hacking conference.

Samsung sent out a memo to its employees barring them from using chatbots like Bing Chat, Google Bard, and ChatGPT at work after some employees used them to upload secret company info.

Ex-Google engineer fired from Google's Responsible AI team reveals OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Google Bard had gone sentient. This has caused months of delays in the product launch over safety concerns.

The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science has penned an open letter, that you can sign, calling for more research into consciousness. It says this will help us better understand AI.

The open source software is designed to assist chatbots with large language models by keeping them on track with their answers and avoiding false or even crazy responses to questions.

The new feature will allow Bard users to not only generate code, but it can also help with debugging code. However, Microsoft's Bing Chat has had the ability to generate code for some time.

The merging of Google's two separate AI groups will likely speed up the development of its generative AI projects, including its Bard chatbot, as it tries to catch up with Microsoft.

The report claims Google's ethical AI team has taken a back seat at the company while it pushes out products like the Bard chatbot, which may offer a lot of misinformation to users.

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai told 60 Minutes in a recent interview that he predicts that there will be global treaties in the future to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and to limit misuse.

The newly launched update page will give everyone a chance to see what the Google Bard team have put in place in terms of improvements to their recently launched AI chatbot service.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said in an interview that Google Search will soon enable some conversational AI elements that will help it to compete with Bing Chat and ChatGPT to help users more.

Switching from the smaller LaMDA model to the larger PaLM dataset should allow Bard to give more detailed answers to questions so it will be able to compete with Microsoft's Bing Chat.

The country's data protection agency has provisionally restricted the chatbot's use of Italian users' personal data. This decision comes after a suspected breach of ChatGPT's data collection rules.

A non-profit organization concerned with AI policy has asked the FTC to clamp down on generative AIs until more guardrails are put in place. The CAIDP said GPT-4 violates FTC rules.

Google has done a shake-up of the Bard and Assistant teams, according to an internal memo. It suggests that Google is moving its focus away from the ageing Google Assistant to the newer Bard.

A report claimed a former Google AI researcher resigned after he allegedly warned the company Bard was using ChatGPT's data. However, a Google spokesperson has since denied that claim.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is filled to the brim with news about updates to Microsoft 365 apps and services like Teams and Edge, new features and bugs in Windows, and Copilot upgrades.

Microsoft has outlined how generative AI could help non-profit organizations. It said some benefits include cost savings, increased productivity, and having a higher impact on the world.

Microsoft executive Mikhail Parakhin admitted that Google's Bard chatbot is still "impressive" based on "the low amount of compute they had", but added they "never underestimate Google."

The Google Bard wait list site is now live, allowing the general public the chance to try out the company's competitor to ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat, first for people in the US and the UK.

Emails are being sent to a number of members of Google's Pixel Superfans community, offering them the chance to try out the Bard chatbot AI before other members of the general public.

Google has announced it will be adding generative AI features in a number of its cloud based services. That includes Workspace apps like Google Docs and Gmail, and a new Generative AI App Builder.

The new DuckAssist generative AI takes information from Wikipedia to help create its natural language answers. It's available now in DuckDuckGo's browser apps and its browser extensions.

The annual Google I/O developers conference will be held May 10. We will likely get an update on the Bard chatbot, and the long-awaited Pixel Tablet, plus we could get some surprises.

A new report says that in an all-hands meeting at Google this week, the head of the company's Bard team is trying to move away from the idea that the chatbot AI is solely for online searches.

The cost of putting in chatbot AIs to provide answers to questions could cost as much as 10 times the normal price of a search for Google and Microsoft, but there may be ways to cut that price down.

This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly is chock-full of news about the new Bing's weirdness, a bunch of Windows bugs and patches, and some new features coming to Microsoft software.