Google Bard obtained a huge replace on February 1, that provides a number of new capabilities to the unreal intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot. The most notable improve is the picture era functionality, and it’ll now be capable to generate photos from textual content inputs. However, it nonetheless can’t produce image-to-image outputs. Alongside, the tech large additionally expanded Google Bard to greater than 230 international locations and territories, and mentioned that it’ll now help greater than 40 languages. The replace got here simply a day after Google revealed in its quarterly earnings name that Google Bard Advanced, powered by Gemini Ultra, will include a paid subscription.
Google made the announcement through a weblog publish the place it highlighted the record of upgrades for the AI chatbot. The addition of the AI picture generator is a late however huge transfer for the corporate given a lot of its rivals comparable to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus, Microsoft Copilot, and Baidu’s Ernie Bot had this characteristic for a whereas. Google Bard’s picture era capabilities come from the Imagen 2 mannequin, which additionally powers the tech large’s different AI merchandise comparable to under-testing ImageFX and Vertex AI.
Google Bard’s AI picture generator options
The new AI picture generator will be capable to take textual content inputs from prompts that may be a number of paragraphs lengthy. Google claims that the generated photos might be of top of the range, wide-ranging, and photorealistic. We, at Gadgets 360, examined the characteristic ourselves and located that the AI mannequin did a pretty respectable job of producing good-quality photos trustworthy to the immediate. However, all the pictures generated have a decision of 1536×1536, which can’t be modified. The photos are additionally not photorealistic and may simply be distinguished as digitally created usually. Further, the chatbot refuses to fulfil any requests that require it to generate photos of real-life individuals, which is more likely to reduce the dangers of deepfakes (creating AI-generated photos of individuals and objects, which seem actual).
Additionally, Google has additionally used SynthID to make the pictures created by means of Google Bard to be simply identifiable as AI-generated. Google’s DeepMind division unveiled SynthID, a device for watermarking and detecting AI-generated photos, in August 2023. “This technology embeds a digital watermark directly into the pixels of an image, making it imperceptible to the human eye, but detectable for identification,” the corporate mentioned on the time of launch.
Apart from including picture era capabilities, Google has additionally expanded Bard to greater than 230 international locations and territories. Additionally, it now helps greater than 40 languages together with Arabic, Bengali, Tamil, and Urdu. Previously, it was obtainable in 170 international locations and solely supported English.
The tech large has additionally added its ‘double-check’ characteristic in the entire languages. Double verify permits customers to know the elements of the response that come from a referenced supply on the web together with citations. It additionally highlights the elements that aren’t based mostly on any reference. This characteristic was added to maintain AI hallucinations, the cases of AI responding with incorrect responses confidently, to a minimal. It might be accessed by clicking the G icon beneath the generated response.
