Google Bard: what is a chatbot useful for and how to use it

What is Google Bard

Bard is a chatbot developed by Google. Like others similar systems, it uses neural networks to create responses to user requests. The bot is positioned as a tool to help collect ideas and find inspiration while writing texts.

Google Bard differs from the popular ChatGPT competitor in a narrow focus, while the latter is a more versatile service for solving various problems.

Google's system is powered by LaMDA, a large language model that learns from publicly available datasets. Gradually, the developers plan to transfer the chatbot to a more advanced PaLM model, which can handle a much larger amount of information.

What Google Bard Can Do

Google Bard is able to generate text based on a given topic, as well as offer several continuation options for already finished posts. As you work, you can quickly switch between alternative drafts and choose the version that suits you best.

So far, Bard fully supports only English, but the developers promise to gradually add others. The chatbot can also generate and debug program code for 20

languages, including C++, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript. In addition, the neural network can translate ready-made strings from one language to another.

In addition, the bot is ready to explain code fragments - this is useful for novice programmers. The system will tell you why certain lines produce a certain result.

While Google Bard makes mistakes, therefore, the generated offers should be carefully checked and tested. But the service can debug its own code if you point out flaws. Also, with the help of the bot, it will be possible to optimize the program, making it faster and more efficient.

The chatbot refers to code sources or articles with information used from them, if they are taken from the public domain. Bard adds links to web pages as a list after his answer.

The bot can analyze articles and make short summaries on difficult topics. The tool will help you compare two texts and show differences and similarities in them. Google Bard also works pretty well with formulas in spreadsheets.

How to use Google Bard

Bard is not officially available in Russia, but it can be launched via VPN service without any problems by connecting your Google account. Activate tunneling through any convenient tool and go to official page chatbot.

Interacting with the tool is quite simple - ask questions through the input line at the bottom of the page. You can use text or voice to send requests. Using the menu on the left side of the page, you can quickly clear the dialogue with the bot, as well as view the activity history, read news about updates, and go to help materials.

Tell Google Bard what you want to learn or compose. Describe the actions you need, and the bot will tell you how to get the result. In this case, the system will give several ways to solve the problem.

So far, Google Bard is limited to text output. He does not know how to create complex charts or infographics. But finished paragraphs can be formatted in different styles depending on the content.

Bard is able to tailor his answers for a given age group. In the request, you can specify the audience, whether they are children, pensioners or company executives. Try adding a specific group and see how the responses change. If you're not very happy with an option, you can tweak the keywords and submit more details.