Google was always going to put AI front and centre at its I/O developer conference last week. The tech giant, known for its AI leadership, had to respond to rival Microsoft, which added AI to its Bing search engine back in February. The latest announcements from Google see its search engine, and products such as Gmail and Google Docs getting an AI makeover — using Google’s next-generation language model PaLM 2. While the new search engine is US-only for now, Bard, Google’s ChatGPT equivalent, is now available in over 180 countries, including Singapore.
However, Bard didn’t quite impress us. For example, we found its response to our request for a holiday itinerary to be lacking in details compared with the free (and older) version of ChatGPT. Bard, though, is knowledgeable about current affairs, unlike ChatGPT, which cannot tell you about events after September 2021.
Of course, there were also some juicy, if unsurprising (and much leaked) hardware announcements. For starte…
