Google Bard came to position itself as one of the most important text-based Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms on the planet, competing head-on against the most popular today: ChatGPT.
The OpenAI system is currently facing a lot of problems and bugs, such as the issue of hallucinationswhich its current CEO, Sam Altman, has tried to sell more as an attractive additional function, without convincing his detractors much.
That Artificial Intelligence is efficient is a vital factor for its use, but it is also equally important that it does not lie, distort, or integrate false or clearly inaccurate information in the content it generates.
From this perspective, Google Bard has proven to be much more reliable, concise and effective. However, it has struggled to position itself in the sector due to the popularity or ease of use of other systems such as Bing Chat or ChatGPT itself.
Now the company seems willing to change this situation, integrating its platform into a host of services used by millions of people. Which would ultimately help its diversification and positioning.
Google Bard comes to Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Google Maps, YouTube and more
Through a post on your official blog The guys from Alphabet have revealed the beginning of a new stage for their Bard Artificial Intelligence, with the integration of the platform to practically the entire ecosystem of existing services.
So now Bard can now connect and pull information from native Google apps that we all use and know like Gmail, Docs, YouTube, and more.
These so-called “Bard Extensions” will be able to locate information quickly and easily through multiple tools. Yury Pinsky, director of product management at Bard, describes it this way:
“For example, if you’re planning a trip to the Grand Canyon (a project that takes up many tabs), you can now ask Bard to pull dates that work for everyone involved from Gmail, to look up real-time data.
Like flight information, transfer times and hotel information, see Google Maps directions to the airport, and even watch YouTube videos about things you can do there at your travel destination, all within a single conversation.”
This sounds very practical but there is a doubt that immediately arises when seeing this level of integration to our personal user accounts: the real privacy of Artificial Intelligence.
In terms of privacy, Google assured that each individual will be in charge of whether or not they want to activate the new Bard extensions. In addition, the user will be able to configure how they want to use them.
The kind omission is that to do so it will be necessary to grant forced permissions, where the terms and conditions will mark the explicit acceptance of the processing of personal information to carry out assistance tasks such as planning a vacation.
In conclusion, the new integration is attractive. But it means giving up some of our privacy if we want to use it even to the smallest degree.