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Google said Friday it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to help people write code for software development as the tech giant seeks to catch up in the fast-paced AI technology race.
Last month, the company began publicly releasing Bard to win back ground from Microsoft Corp.
The release of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, sparked a leap in the tech sector last year to put AI in the hands of more users.
Google describes Bard as an experiment to collaborate with generative AI, a technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.
Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages, including Java, C++ and Python, as well as help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.
Bard can currently be accessed by a small set of users who can chat with the bot and ask questions instead of using the traditional Google search tool.
The initial launch of the product was rather unsuccessful due to mistakes and poor impression. Last week, it was reported that Samsung and Apple may be phasing out Google Search in favor of Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing. This has become an additional incentive for the introduction of AI technologies in Google products.
