SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Tuesday (Sep 19) said it had integrated Gmail, YouTube and other tools into its Bard chatbot as the tech giants seek to persuade users that generative AI is useful and not dangerous or just a fad. The search engine juggernaut has for years discreetly developed AI powers, but was ca
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Tuesday said it had integrated Gmail, YouTube and other tools into its Bard chatbot as the tech giants seek to persuade users that generative AI is useful and not dangerous or just a fad.
The company said its beefed up chatbot would allow users to carry out new tasks such as summarize a confusing string of emails into its main points or tap into Google Maps to find the best way to a holiday destination. This would hopefully give comfort to those put off by the so-called"hallucinations" or bad responses that are a constant danger when using Bard, ChatGPT or Microsoft's Bing.
Any scraping of personal content from Google's workplace tools - such as Docs, Drive or Gmail - would not be used to target ads, train Bard, or be seen by human reviewers, it said.