Google Bard AI may appear on the Android home screen
But reportedly only Google Pixel phones will receive the exclusive widget first.
While the battle between Google and Microsoft over AI search engines is in full swing, Google may be taking its fight to the mobile front. According to new reports, the search giant appears to be working on a smartphone widget for its Bard chatbot, and it will reportedly be exclusively available for Pixel phones.
According to code seen by 9to5Google, the search giant appears to be working on a widget for Google Bard on the Android home screen. It’s not yet clear whether Bard will be available as a standalone app or as part of Google Search, similar to how Bing Chat works in Microsoft Edge. The latter option may be an obvious candidate, as Google CEO Sundar Pichai has previously said that an artificial intelligence chatbot will eventually appear in the search engine.
The Bard app will be available in Google Search.
Either way, developing its own mobile version of Bard will greatly improve user interaction with the AI chatbot. It is currently available as a public preview, is trained on a huge data set of text and code, and can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and provide informative answers to your questions.
What is Google Bard
Bard got a little smarter after Google added a few updates to its PaLM language model to improve its understanding of what you’re asking or telling it to do. This means that Bard can respond better to your cues when solving multi-step verbal and mathematical problems.
Bard
If Google Bard is released as a standalone app, it will be a powerful tool for users. It should also close the gap between Google and Microsoft in the AI race, where Microsoft currently leads with Bing Chat.
That said, Bard may not be available on many top Android phones, as 9to5 suggests it will initially be exclusive to Pixel phones. The publication reports that it will debut on Android in the near future.
Since Mountain View is ramping up its AI efforts by combining the Google Brain and DeepMind teams, which previously worked separately, we can expect the company’s AI chatbot to invade all platforms where Google has a presence someday.
