An update deployed to the Google Bard extension for YouTube now allows the AI to better understand what you are watching. Enough to increase the functionality of the platform.
Google is currently rolling out a new update for Bard. The latter has the effect of significantly improving the capabilities of its AI when it comes to understanding what you watch on YouTube… to better discuss with you the content of the videos viewed and allow ever more relevant interactions with users. users. In this case, with those who are interested in the Bard extension on YouTube.
This improvement is part of the improvements made by Google to its chatbot at regular intervals. Recently, and as MSPowerUser points out, Google, for example, relaxed the age restrictions in force on Bard in several countries, to allow its AI to help adolescents in math, explaining to them step by step how to solve certain problems. mathematics. A few weeks ago, we also learned that Google Bard could soon be able to remember a user to provide them with a more personalized experience and responses adapted to their needs more quickly.
Bard on YouTube is getting better… trying to change our lives
In the case of YouTube, Google explains that it wants “expand extension [Bard] on YouTube to understand certain video content» so that users can have “a richer conversation with Bard on this subject“. Nothing very specific said like that, but a video shared by the firm shows us some concrete scenarios for which this increased understanding of Bard is useful.
We thus discover that it will now be possible to upload a photo of a new device that we have just purchased, then ask Bard to find an explanatory video to learn how to use it correctly. In the case of the video, Google takes the example of a child’s car seat. Uploading a photo of the seat and asking Bard to find a video showing how to install it is now possible.
It will also be possible to ask Bard to display cooking videos to learn how to make an olive cake, then ask him how many eggs to use to make the recipe from the first video viewed, for example.
Note that over time, Google develops extensions for its various services. Bard has been added to Google Flights, Google Hotels, Google Maps, as well as the main Google Workspace applications. Understand by this that like Microsoft, Google has the firm intention of making us addicted to AI-assisted experiences… by sprinkling Bard extensions almost everywhere.