The renowned chatbot Bard is heading over to Google Messages to bring its assistive and generative AI features for users, looking to help and provide its services for all communication needs. Its new direction will replace the existing AI assistant present in the company's platform, centering on the 'Allo' which offers a tool that is available to use in Messages and other chat apps.
With Google's AI reinforcement coming in this year, Bard's integration marks a new era for Messages, centering on its newfound power and development.
Bard is Coming to Google Messages to Replace Allo
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A report by 9to5 Google claims that in the latest beta version of the Google Messages app, the AI chatbot, Bard, made its way to bring its generative AI capabilities to improve the communication features. On the platform, users may experience the perks of having an accessible generative AI which they may use to create information with its prompts, with a newfound feature.
Codenamed "penpal," Bard will be a standalone chatbot that users may talk to, and here, they may ask for different information or simply talk to the AI.
Bard can be found under the 'New conversation' window, with the sparkle emoji () button that represents the conversational AI.
Bard brings its main feature of being an AI chatbot that users may talk to or ask whatever they have in mind, and it could also draft messages, suggest books, identify images, offer full recipes, and more. Other features include the ability to give users a 'camping packing list', and dinner ideas, asking the chatbot to create a dish or recipe from one's declared ingredients available.
Google and its Generative AI Features
In last year's massive dive into AI developments, Google has focused its efforts on its integration of the Bard AI chatbot into its different apps, products, and services. This includes the Google Workspace suite which heavily benefitted from the integration including the likes of Docs, Gmail, Drive, Sheets, and more, including its search engine, YouTube, and Google Flights.
Towards the end of the year, Google also released its multimodal AI foundational model called the Gemini AI, and it is said to reinforce the internet company's efforts to offer a more intuitive experience for users. And while speculations and rumors expected the Gemini to arrive by 2024, Google stepped up and released the AI model before 2023 ended.
Google's new multimodal foundational model will power its existing features and services available, with Bard one of the recipients of this upgrade that promises significant improvements to its capabilities. Bard's arrival to Google Messages' current beta version will help ensure that users get the experience when communicating with others, offering different experiences available.
