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Google Bard, the AI designed to provide support and service through Google’s ecosystem applications, is already preparing its roadmap for 2024, and it has done so taking into account the feedback it has received from users, who have publicly shared what they want this AI to achieve in order to meet their expectations.

Artificial Intelligence has a lot of room for progress in this 2024 after all the advancements made in this 2023, and that is why users have been very open to revealing what they want to see in systems like Google Bard throughout this year. In this way, the company ensures to meet the most recurring demands from its community.

Improvements for 2024

Jack Krawszyk, one of the visible faces in the Artificial Intelligence segment at Google, was the one who shared through the social network X the verdict of the community regarding the roadmap they want to see in Google Bard in 2024. In this way, the Google employee shared the four main requests from the community while once again offering a “free space” for users to provide their feedback:

• Improvements in control over hallucinations. In this sense, users propose tutorials or guides that allow reducing the ratio of hallucinations in general searches.
• Multimodal expansion. Mentioning Gemini, Krawszyk emphasizes the arrival of photographic, voice, and video formats to Google Bard, in a much more multimedia future version.
• Easier access, making it clear that users want an application where these services are centralized.
• Cutting-edge capabilities. In a more enigmatic way, the employee highlights that “we will love Bard Advanced”.

The qualitative leap of Gemini

On the other hand, Bard will also show a significant qualitative leap when Google Gemini is implemented within its system. This Artificial Intelligence, with which Google has already boasted of its revolutionary potential, is being prepared to be implemented within Bard and for the functions carried out by this system to be much superior to those currently presented.

Google Gemini was presented just a few weeks ago, but the images that Google showed about what it is capable of doing surprised everyone, since it is an iteration with an astonishing reasoning capacity and that, as they were looking for, is closer than ever to the way real people reason. However, they still have a long way to go in that field, because the differences are still noticeable, although they are impressive progress.

The integration of AI into our lives has gained significant momentum since the outset, evident in the proliferation of chatbots following the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI. This is underscored by Google’s main alternative, Bard, which debuted this year, aiming to rival ChatGPT. And now, there’s fresh news regarding ChatGPT.

Mountain View has announced that, starting today, teenagers from “most countries around the world” will be able to use Bard, their artificial intelligence chatbot, something they couldn’t do until now. Additionally, they have confirmed the implementation of some security measures for these young users.

Young people from the vast majority of countries can now use Google’s Bard

Of course, any teenager meeting Google’s minimum age requirement for having their own account will have access to the said AI chatbot from the tech giant, as the company asserts. Generally, the minimum age for using Google is 13 years old, although there are some exceptions detailed on this page. Another noteworthy point is that these young and new users of Bard will only be able to use it in English, but Google plans to add other languages at some point.

That said, let’s discuss the security measures Google has implemented for teenagers using Bard, aiming to help them understand how this technology works and to prevent exposure to inappropriate content. For instance, the company will share resources, including a video explaining what generative AI is, potential issues that may arise, and their respective solutions.

Apart from what’s been mentioned, when a teenager asks Bard a factual query for the first time, Google will verify Bard’s answers against its own browser search results. Additionally, in light of this announcement, the tech company mentioned they have trained Bard to “recognize areas that are inappropriate for younger users” and have “implemented features and safety barriers to help prevent unsafe content, such as illegal or age-restricted substances, from appearing in its responses to teenagers.”

To wrap up, Google has also added interesting new features to Bard, such as one that will help us solve a math equation by simply typing it or uploading an image of it. The platform will also be able to generate charts from tables, for instance.