Bard AI Gets Integrated Into Google Apps for Better or Worse
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Bard AI Gets Integrated Into Google Apps for Better or Worse

I struggle with AI, folks. The main issue I have is, I can’t seem to figure out how to use it to benefit my every day life. I can’t ask it to write blogs for this site (I’ve tried and they’re usually awful and nonsensical) and I don’t need it to write code for me. To everyone who has benefited from its creation, hooray for you. With that said, maybe Google’s latest Bard news is just what I need to see how amazing AI can be?

Announced this week, Bard is getting implemented into Google’s biggest apps. These apps include Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Docs, Maps, and more.

The idea is simple enough. With this new Bard extension, you’ll be able to ask Bard to access information located within these apps, all from a single place. It’ll be able to sift through emails, check flights and hotels, find videos, provide inspiration, and much more. To give an idea of what Google has in store for Bard and its latest PaLM 2 model, watch the hype video below.

As an example, writing a cover letter might give you anxiety. Have Bard do it. Bard can locate your resume in Drive, then after you provide the AI with a description of the job you’re applying to, it should be able to spit out a pretty reasonable letter for you. That’ll save you a headache or two.

To access this new and improved Bard, head on over to bard.google.com and give it a try.

// Google

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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • 100% with you, @timotato – I have yet to find any use for this AI stuff within google, other than for comedy purposes. (For instance I had it write me up a fantasy football draft strategy, which was dated a full year.) I did use chatGPT for help composing one legal doc, which I think was maybe just a touch easier than it would have been using google search. But overall, I’m not seeing it yet. The content quality just isn’t there.

    • I think it’s neat that I can ask Google bard to create a spreadsheet and export it to google sheets and it can also teach me how to use software platforms such as quickbooks. I think it’s going to become very powerful in the near future. Probably give it 5-7 years and you’ll see people doing all kinds of stuff to sharpen productivity.

  • Meanwhile I’m sitting here, waiting for Google assistant to understand what I want or give me the same response each time I ask the same question.

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