Google (GOOG, GOOGL) launched its latest salvo in the AI wars on Tuesday, debuting a host of improvements to its Bard chatbot including integrations with the company’s Gmail, Docs, Drive, Google Flights, and YouTube services. The tech giant also announced a new means of fact checking the chatbot’s responses to improve overall accuracy.
The updates, called Bard Extensions and double-check, are some of the biggest Google has rolled out for Bard and represent a significant step in the company’s effort to make the chatbot more useful across its collection of apps.
“For the first time, people are going to be able to integrate a language model with their personal life,” Bard product lead Jack Krawczyk told Yahoo Finance. “We're bringing the ability for you to collaborate in Bard with your Gmail with your Google Docs, with your Drive, as well as other Google services like Maps, Hotels, Flights, YouTube.”
Bard Extensions gives you the ability to use Bard to pull up specific information from your emails, documents, book flights, and search YouTube.
In one example, Krawczyk cited an example of booking a trip with friends to the Grand Canyon. He explained how you could use Bard to search for the dates your friend recommended in an email, use the bot to search for flights and hotels for those dates, and develop an itinerary for your trip.