Bard Can Now Hook up with Your Google Apps
Hello guys! I simply needed to remind you that those that change into paid subscribers to my Substack until this Friday (September twenty second) can redeem my new Udemy course: ChatGPT Unleashed: Master GPT-4 & Prompt Engineering. You solely must ship me an e mail to frank@thepycoach.com after changing into a paid subscriber and I’ll ship you a free coupon.
In case you’re nonetheless uncertain about subscribing, right here’s a free article for all of you a few current announcement Google made (that I believe is sweet information!).
Google made some updates to its most succesful mannequin — PaLM 2. Which means superb new options for Bard!
Most likely the best function Bard has now’s the power to hook up with Google apps and providers via extensions. Because of this Bard can now hook up with your Gmail, Google Docs, and Drive to get issues carried out rapidly with out having to repeat/paste textual content each time you utilize a Google product.
On this article, we’ll see the best way to allow extensions, the best way to use them, and different cool options that now Bard helps.
Go to Bard and log in to your account. Then, on the upper-right nook click on on the extensions icon.
Then you definitely’ll see the extensions under. A few of these extensions are enabled by default. Google Workspace isn’t one in every of them, so in case you need Bard to have entry to your Gmail, Drive, and Docs, take into account enabling it.
Let’s begin a brand new chat to check these extensions.
As soon as we allow the extensions, we solely want to explain which Google product we want to use in our immediate.
Say you’ve been disconnected from the web for the previous weeks and need to rapidly compensate for the weekly emails I ship. Bard can present a small abstract of the newest emails.
As you possibly can see, subsequent to the Bard emblem there’s a brand new house destined for the extension getting used for the response (on this case Google Workspace). For those who open it, you’ll see what actions Bard is doing behind the scenes.
After analyzing the response, I’ve to say that Bard did an excellent job at summarizing the newest emails from The PyCoach, however I additionally seen that Bard made a small mistake as a result of my ChatGPT course isn’t truly free as talked about by Bard (it’s free when you change into a paid subscriber within the subsequent 2 days … however that doesn’t imply it’s a free course for everybody)
Anyway, in case you need to know extra about an e mail, you possibly can click on on one of many emails that Bard used for the earlier response.
However that’s not all. There’s extra you are able to do with Gmail! You may compose an e mail reply, discover out when was the final time a contact despatched you an e mail, summarize emails, get the time of an occasion, and so on.
In addition to Gmail, you can even ask Bard to hook up with your Drive or Docs to get summaries from PDFs, insights from paperwork, and so on.
Issues get extra attention-grabbing if you mix completely different Google apps. For instance, you should utilize Bard to plan a visit contemplating the dates that work on your Gmail contacts, then search for real-time flights utilizing Google Flights and lodge info utilizing Google Accommodations.
Right here’s a cool instance extracted from the Google Weblog.
Word: In accordance with Google, For those who select to make use of the Workspace extensions, your content material from Gmail, Docs, and Drive will not be seen by human reviewers, utilized by Bard to indicate you advertisements, or used to coach the Bard mannequin. For extra details about this, examine this article.
Bard’s responses now embody a “Google it” button (“G” icon) to double-check its solutions. After clicking on the button, Bard will learn its response and consider whether or not there may be content material throughout the online to substantiate it.
Say you ask Bard the best way to study Python from scratch. You get your response however aren’t utterly positive whether or not the response offered is appropriate.
For those who click on on the “G” button positioned on the backside of the response, Bard will consider as many statements as potential and spotlight in inexperienced people who have supporting info by Google Search
and spotlight in one other coloration people who have contradicting info discovered by Google Search or when Google Search didn’t discover related content material.
Everytime you need to study extra concerning the highlighted statements, simply click on on the hyperlinks to the sources offered (if obtainable).
Lastly, one other good function that comes with this replace is the power to construct on others’ conversations with Bard. Now when somebody shares a Bard chat with you thru a public hyperlink, you possibly can proceed the dialog as you need.
That’s it! For extra details about this replace, examine here.