Google announced the launch of Bard in Arabic, in its largest expansion since it launched in English in March earlier this year. Bard is designed to enable people to use their creative potential by developing and brainstorming new ideas, learn more about the world by exploring topics from different perspectives, and boost productivity by simplifying and summarizing dense content.
Powered by Google’s latest language model ‘PaLM2’ which has a multilingual understanding of information, Bard can understand questions in over 16 Arabic dialects including Egyptian colloquial Arabic and Saudi colloquial Arabic, and in turn share responses in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Bard also understands input that includes Arabic and another language in tandem (known as code-switching), and user interface that supports right-to-left script.
Google also announced a set of new features to increase Bard’s accessibility and helpfulness including:
- Hearing Bard’s responses out loud by clicking on the sound icon
- Saving, organizing and modifying earlier conversations with Bard
- Sharing Bard’s responses with friends using shareable links
- Exporting Python code to Replit, an online integrated development environment, in addition to Google Colab, that allows developers to write and execute python code through the browser, to help developers with coding
- Bringing the capabilities of Google Lens, a Google’s product that recognizes and analyzes objects, texts & images from the real world, into Bard so people can upload and use images in prompts (available in English only)
- Changing the tone and style of Bard’s responses; funny, simple, long, short, professional or casual (available in English only)
Today, Bard is available in over 40 languages including Chinese, German, Hindi and Spanish.
Access Bard on desktop here.
