Google Bard Extensions Brings More AI Power To Maps, YouTube, Gmail, and More

Google Bard is getting support for Extensions today, incorporating essential apps like Google Maps, YouTube, Hotels, and Flights to simplify data retrieval and accelerate the creative process. Android Police reports: This integration ensures that users can seamlessly amalgamate data from myriad sources, thereby accelerating your creative process or just making it easier to accomplish basic tasks across the board. These tools were originally teased at I/O before their wider release today. The company posted an excellent explainer of how this works on its YouTube channel.

With today's update, you can now sync Bard with your Gmail, Docs, and Drive. This capability ensures that the AI collaborates with your personal content, making data retrieval and summarization more fluid. With the enhancement of the Google It button, Bard's responses can be cross-checked with Google Search, instilling greater trust in AI-generated data. Additionally, conversations initiated by others via Bard can be continued in your account, emphasizing collaborative creativity. You can learn more about Google Bard Extensions here.

Help me Maps

[Anonymous Coward]

Me: I need to go to the theater in Wattsville
Bard Maps: Blah blah blah then turn down Center Street and you're there
Me: I drove that way, there is no road called Center Street or any way to get to such a street
Bard Maps: Oh I apologize for my mistake. You are correct, there is no Center Street. You need to take Adam Street at that corner then turn right and you're at Marketville.
Me: I don't want to go to Marketville, we were talking about Wattsville.
Bard Maps: I apologize. You are correct, we were talking a

Re: Help me Maps

[LindleyF]

That's what they're trying to fix here. We'll see how well it works. But in general, people shouldn't expect a language model to understand anything other than, you know, language.

Google

[VertosCay]

Now with even more ads!

Only in the USA

[bvdp]

I'd love to try it ... so I can bitch like everyone else. Sadly (well, maybe not all that sad) I can't 'cause I don't live in the USA. Oh well.

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[TwistedGreen]

At least they didn't name it Minstrel
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c... [penny-arcade.com]

So maps can hallucinate now too?

[gweihir]

What a great idea!