First We Got A Bing. Now We Got A
Bard.
Google Opens Up Its AI to All
So there I was performing a simple search, and a new but familiar window opened up within the search results. It was familiar to me because it was a verbal response to my search. In fact, the window was identical in function to Bing, Microsoft's AI.
The month of August 2023, Google unleashed its Bard AI on 230 locations worldwide and in all the US of A. August 13, 2023, PCGuide, published an excellent and thorough summary of what is Bard and how to hop onboard the Bard Express. Essentially, Bard is Google's AI and not unlike Microsoft's AI. So if you are brand conscious, now you can Barda Bing, or Binga Bard. Is this a wonderful country, or what?
The first step to ensure that Google Bard is enabled is to be logged on
to
Google, like your Gmail account. Next, to turn the
feature on click
the new Google Labs Feature. On the Top
Right of
Google Chrome screen is an icon of a lab beaker. That allows
Chrome users to toggle the Bard AI on and off. Also, the Labs Icon
offers users the four ways that users can employ Bard. What will
interest readers most here is the first two options displayed below.
Google calls their AI software suite SGE, which is defined thusly: "Google's SGE (Search Generative Experience) is an AI-powered search experience that organizes search results in a new way."
Generative AI in Search combines the indexed results of the Traditional Search Feature with the textual results that come from AI. When SGE is enabled, the indexed Search results are displayed above a pink window. In the pink windows you will see the generative textual response form as pink progress meters go across. Once the generative AI response is formed, the complete results will look like below. Click any of the buttons below the SGE response to further the AI dialogue session.
The "SGE while browsing" feature will offer the users a short expository essay about the search topic. Google offers a sample search on US Route 66 as an example of how SGE while browsing works. This is Google's example; but I could not get this function to work while browsing the web. Google claims this feature will only work on certain webpages. I tried several topics unsuccessfully. So I think this feature is still in the lab.
For me, when it comes to AI, the thrill is gone. Gone away from me. To quote The Maestro. If, however, you have have not yet tried an Artificial Intelligence application, and you already have a Google account, then Bard would a fine starting place. To help you on your not so Amazing Journey of AI Discovery, may I offer ZDNet's "How to use Google Bard now," May 10, 2023. The article is a complete beginner's guide to the AI.
Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that
California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
— (Get Your
Kicks on) Route 66, Bobby Troup
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gerald Reiff