In order to assist you discover the information you need, Google's Bard AI chatbot can now search through your Gmail, Docs, and Drive in addition to the web. With the new integration, you can ask Bard to perform tasks like locate and summarize an email's contents or even highlight the key passages of a document you have saved in Drive.
These integrations, which Google refers to as extensions, have a wide variety of uses, but they should spare you from having to dig through a ton of emails or documents to get a certain piece of information. Bard may then utilize that data in other ways, like adding it to a chart or developing a bulleted summary. This feature is only available in English for now.
Although granting Bard access to your private emails and documents may cause you to worry about data usage and privacy, Google assures you that neither human reviewers nor the public model's training process will see this material. Additionally, you are not need to enable the connectors with Drive, Docs, and Gmail. You must first give Google your consent, and you can withdraw consent at any time.
According to Jack Krawczyk, product lead at Bard, in order to use the feature, you can either have Bard search directly within your Gmail by, for instance, prefixing your query with @mail. Or, you may just say, "Check my email for information related to my upcoming flight."
Additionally, Bard's extensions go beyond Gmail, Docs, and Drive. Additionally, Google revealed that the chatbot will link to Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights. As a result, you can now ask Bard to identify nearby attractions, pull up real-time travel information, surface YouTube videos on a particular subject, and much more. Google will automatically enable these three extensions.
Since this is the first instance of a language model product fully connecting with your personal data, Krawczyk explains, "we're starting with this experiment." "We want to be certain that we do that correctly." According to Krawczyk, Google intends to increase Bard's integrations with "products across Google as well as partners outside of Google."
Google is also enhancing Bard in some other significant ways. That includes a brand-new way to verify Bard's responses by using the "Google It" button on the chatbot. The button, which formerly allowed you to conduct a Google search on subjects connected to Bard's response, now displays whether or not Bard's responses contain data that Google Search supports or refutes.
Google will display the information validated by Search in green when you click the "Google It" button on a supported answer, while unvalidated answers will be marked in orange. To learn more about what Bard might have gotten right or wrong, move your cursor over the highlighted sentences. Google is also introducing a method for carrying on a discussion with Bard based on a shared link, letting you expand on a previous discussion.
Google has been progressively introducing new capabilities to Bard since launching it in February, and the most recent addition is the ability to produce and debug code as well as develop functions for Google Sheets. Google just added support for Google Lens in Bard, enabling you to use the application to come up with caption suggestions for pictures or learn more about them.