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Google Bard Adds Chinese Language Support, Though Experience Falls Short

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Bard is a generative AI chatbot developed by Google, based on the PaLM2 large language model. It was created to counter the rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT, launching with limited capacity in March 2023 and expanding to 180 countries by May 2023.

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Recently, I discovered in Google Bard's update logs that it now supports more languages, including Simplified Chinese. You can view the specific update log here: https://bard.google.com/updates

About Google Bard

Below is Bard's self-introduction, generated by Bard itself:

I am Bard, a large language model, also known as conversational AI or a chatbot, trained to provide information and comprehensive answers. I have been trained on a vast amount of text data, enabling me to communicate and generate human-like text on various prompts and questions. For example, I can provide summaries of factual topics or create stories.

I am still under development, but I have learned to perform many types of tasks, including:

  • I will do my best to follow your instructions and complete your requests diligently.
  • I will answer your questions in a comprehensive and informative manner using my knowledge, even if they are open-ended, challenging, or unusual.
  • I will generate different creative text formats, such as poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, emails, letters, etc. I will strive to meet all your requirements.

Using Google Bard

The specific regions currently supported by Google Bard are not yet clear. However, it is confirmed that the United States is supported. Users like xiaoz can use it normally by connecting via a US node; it is recommended to use a US proxy to test the service.

Google Bard Official Website: https://bard.google.com/

User Experience

I lightly tested Google Bard, but it still feels inferior to current models like ChatGPT and Claude. The main issues include:

  • When communicating in Chinese, Google Bard sometimes fails to correctly understand your descriptions.
  • Google Bard's results are not returned in a streaming format; instead, the system waits until processing is complete before returning the entire result at once.

Google, keep up the good work!