Bard users can opt to disable these extensions at any time. That will allow users to ask Bard things like”Give me a template for how to write a best man speech and show me YouTube videos about them for inspiration,” or for trip suggestions, complete with driving directions, according to Google.

With the new extensions, Bard will now pull information from YouTube, Google Maps, Flights and Hotels by default. But now, Bard will draw on information from Google’s various other services, too. Previously, Bard had been able to help with tasks like writing essay drafts or planning a friend’s baby shower based on Google’s large language model, an AI algorithm trained on vast troves of data. “Bringing all the power of these tools together will save people time - in 20 seconds, in minutes, you can do something that would have taken maybe an hour or more.” “These services in conjunction with one another are very, very powerful,” Sissie Hsiao, general manager for Google Assistant and Bard, told CNN ahead of the launch. The most popular search engine in the world is about to look different

Ireland Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto/Getty Images The Google logo is seen on on the company's European headquarters in Dublin. Google - which earlier this year reportedly issued an internal “code red” after OpenAI beat it to the release of its AI chatbot - is now flexing the power of its other, widely used software programs that can make Bard more useful. The update comes as Google and other tech giants, including Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, race to roll out increasingly sophisticated consumer-facing AI technologies, and to convince users that such tools are more than just a gimmick. The new features mark the biggest update to Google’s Bard in the six months since it was widely released to the public. Other updates include the ability to communicate with the chatbot in multiple languages, new fact-checking capabilities and a broad update to the large language model that the tool is built on. The connections to Google’s other services are just some of the improvements to Bard coming Tuesday. Or a user could ask the tool to summarize meeting notes made in a recent Google Drive document. Users will be able, for example, to ask Bard to plan an upcoming trip, complete with real flight options. The company on Tuesday announced a series of updates to Bard that will give the chatbot access to Google’s full suite of tools - including YouTube, Google Drive, Google Flights and others - to assist users in a wider variety of tasks. Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot is evolving.

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