Google has updated its Bard AI chatbot, so you can use it to parse YouTube videos. In its most recent experiment update log, the company has announced it has expanded the capabilities of Bard's YouTube extension, so when it's enabled, the generative AI can "understand some video content." For example, Google said you'd be able to ask Bard how many eggs were used in a video for an olive oil cake recipe. Bard first gained the ability to pull data from YouTube in September after an update integrated it with other Google products, including Docs, Maps, Lens, Flights and Hotels. Google claims people have been asking for "deeper engagement with YouTube videos" -- but I guess that entails watching them less.

Big Tech companies have been rushing to design and produce new "generative" AI products since OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT last November. But the question of how the companies would get people to use -- and pay for -- the expensive new technology has swirled around the industry for months. Google, Amazon and Apple all have millions of customers already speaking to the companies' existing voice assistants to set alarms, check the weather and make notes for them, representing a ready-made group of consumers to test out the new AI chatbots on.

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.

We've already seen OpenAI and Salesforce incorporate their standalone chatbots into larger, more comprehensive machine learning platforms that span the breadth and depth of their businesses. On Tuesday, Google announced that its Bard AI is receiving the same treatment and has been empowered to pull real-time data from other Google applications including Docs, Maps, Lens, Flights, Hotels and YouTube, as well as the users' own silo of stored personal data, to provide more relevant and actionable chatbot responses. "I've had the great fortune of being a part of the team from the inception," Jack Krawczyk,bproduct lead for Bard, told Engadget. "This Thursday marks six months since Bard entered into the world." But despite of the technology's rapid spread, Krawczyk concedes that many users remain wary of it, either because they don't see an immediate use-case for it in their personal lives or "some others are saying, 'I've also heard that it makes things up a lot.'"

It seems like there's a new update announced every day in the ongoing race to have the most advanced AI. The latest comes courtesy of Google, which is launching further improvements to Bard, including better advanced reasoning and math abilities. Bard will no longer rely solely on LLMs, which are best for predictions versus solving complex problems. Instead, it should now identify when further processing could help and then generate background code to improve correctness. According to Google, this update boosted computation-based word and math problems' accuracy across their internal challenge datasets by 30 percent.

"ChatGPT gained one million users In less than a week and will continue to gain more in the future. Bard, a competitor to ChatGPT from Google, and AI search strategies compete with Microsoft." Have you also heard the talk of town i.e., Generative AI – ChatGPT and Google Bard? Today, in this blog, we will expose a tech battle between these two ChatGPT vs Google Bard AI chatbots. Competition heats up in the AI space.