Google's Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more

Google's Bard AI chat bot just got a set of updates that might finally give it widespread appeal. On Tuesday, Google announced the integration of its generative AI into its apps and services--meaning you can now use Bard to dig through your messages, documents, and more to help speed up life's daily tasks. Announced on Tuesday in a blog post, Google says its improvements to its PaLM 2 AI model enables new features that include Bard Extensions, which allows Bard to connect to Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Maps, Travel, and more. The idea is to make the chat bot more like a personal assistant--one that can comb through your Google account to help speed up work like catching up on email or applying for a job. Google's examples cover these exact scenarios, with one showing a parent's request for a summary of recent emails from their child's school.