<p>Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast-moving race on AI technology.</p>.<p>Last month, the company started the public release of Bard to gain ground on Microsoft Corp.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/to-assess-worldwide-view-on-bail-in-case-of-assault-laced-with-cruelty-hc-turns-to-chatgpt-1204347.html" target="_blank">To assess worldwide view on bail in case of assault laced with cruelty, HC turns to ChatGPT</a></strong></p>.<p>The release of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, last year caused a sprint in the technology sector to put AI into more users' hands.</p>.<p>Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.</p>.<p>Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.</p>.<p>The company said Bard can also optimise code to make it faster or more efficient with simple prompts such as "Could you make that code faster?".</p>.<p>Currently, Bard can be accessed by a small set of users who can chat with the bot and ask questions instead of running Google's traditional search tool.</p>
<p>Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast-moving race on AI technology.</p>.<p>Last month, the company started the public release of Bard to gain ground on Microsoft Corp.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/to-assess-worldwide-view-on-bail-in-case-of-assault-laced-with-cruelty-hc-turns-to-chatgpt-1204347.html" target="_blank">To assess worldwide view on bail in case of assault laced with cruelty, HC turns to ChatGPT</a></strong></p>.<p>The release of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, last year caused a sprint in the technology sector to put AI into more users' hands.</p>.<p>Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content.</p>.<p>Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.</p>.<p>The company said Bard can also optimise code to make it faster or more efficient with simple prompts such as "Could you make that code faster?".</p>.<p>Currently, Bard can be accessed by a small set of users who can chat with the bot and ask questions instead of running Google's traditional search tool.</p>