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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.

A new report says Google is planning to use generative AI to automate ads, which may include creating media assets and even for suggesting new videos that YouTube creators could make.

Altman added that he is concerned about how generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT could be used for misinformation and for interfering in future elections in his statements to the Senate panel.

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.

Despite a massive AI push at Google I/O 2023, Google's ChatGPT competitor, Bard, is skipping a release in the European Union (EU), possibly to avoid being grounded over privacy regulations under GDPR.

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.

A new report claims Google is revamping its Search layout away from the traditional column of links in favor of showing more short videos similar to TikTok, and showing more forum discussions.

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 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.

Geoffrey Hinton, who is considered one of the major developers of modern AI, recently left his job at Google so he could speak more freely about the risks of letting AI get out of control.

Welcome back to another edition of Microsoft Weekly where we recap all the important events that happened in the Redmond technology giant's universe in the past few days. Dive right in!

When visiting Google Bard's website, users noticed that Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev now show a large Bing AI ad in the browser's address bar, offering to compare the two AI-powered chatbots.

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 60 Minutes Overtime segment from CBS News showed a brief glimpse of the upcoming Google text-to-video AI program, but there's no word on when it might be released to the public.

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.

This week's Microsoft Weekly digest is chock-full of news items related to controversies related to AI-powered products, the arrival of free USBs for Windows Insiders, and multiple app updates.

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.

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 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.

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.

A Google company wide email is asking employees to write answers for its upcoming Bard chatbot, using their own knowledge on topics they are familiar with to make sure it offers correct info.