Google introduced Bard Extensions this week, which can pull and process data from Drive, Gmail, YouTube and other Google apps to answer better and more relevant.
This results from refining it’s PaLM 2 LLM, which powers Bard. Google says Bard Extensions are enabled by default, but users can opt out anytime. Also, the Google app data used by Bard for answering your queries is used a lot for advertising or training it’s LLM, assures Google.
Reading Google Apps for Better Answers
The assumption that Google Bard is slightly behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT is slowly being addressed. Google has been adding new features to it’s AI chatbot more frequently than ever, which put Bard on par if not greater than ChatGPT in some situations.
The latest in this pursuit is Bard Extensions, which can pull and process data from your connected Google apps for answering better. For example, asking Bard to plan a trip to a particular destination will have data pulled from your Google Calendar, Gmail, Weather and other relevant apps to show suitable dates(probably on holidays), alongside flight tickets and hotel stays.
Further, you can ask Bard to show any of your documents and information stored in the personal accounts and hopefully get a helpful answer using that data. Since it can already write letters, you can ask Bard to include parts of your resume stored in Drive and give output in a Doc format.
The results can be shared with others, says Google, letting them collaborate on what Bard can do, too and if you’re unsure about the answers coughed up, there’s a new “Google it” button to double-check the results.
Google assures that the app data for processing queries will be treated as sensitive and not used for advertising or training Bard. “And of course, you’re always in control of your privacy settings, and you can turn them off at any time“, says Google.
Users are automatically opted into Bard Extensions, so they have to restrict access if they want to do it manually. All these were possible because the company has updated it’s PaLM 2 LLM, which reportedly comprised 340 billion parameters to deliver factual and creative answers through Bard.
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