🔎 What’s good today:

• 💻New Bard superpowers

• 🦾 How to use AI carefully

• 💬 ChatGPT prompt for marketing

• 🙈 The Future of Warfare Is Here

• 👩‍🏫Shopify launches AI Business Assistant

🔥 Google Bard Updates: More Languages, More Features, and More Possibilities

Google Bard, the company's artificial intelligence chatbot, has received a significant update that makes it available in more than 40 languages and brings it to the European Union after initial delays due to data privacy concerns.

The new features include:

• The ability to listen to Bard's responses in all 40+ languages (text-to-voice). This is especially helpful for users who a

  

  re deaf or hard of hearing, or who simply prefer to hear Bard's responses rather than read them.

• Integration with Google Lens, enabling users to upload images with prompts (multimodal). This allows Bard to provide more comprehensive and informative responses, as it can now take into account visual cues as well as text.

• The ability to adjust the tone and style of Bard's responses, choosing between simple, long, short, professional, or casual tones. This gives users more control over how Bard communicates, allowing them to tailor its responses to their specific needs.

• The ability to share Bard's responses via links, allowing for broader collaboration and sharing of ideas. This makes it easy to share Bard's insights with others, or to use its responses as a starting point for further research.

The updates to Google Bard make it a more powerful and versatile tool for a wide range of tasks. Whether you're looking for a research assistant, a creative writing partner, or simply someone to chat with, Bard can now help you in more ways than ever before.

Why it matters:

The ability to interact with a language model that can understand and respond to visual prompts is a significant step forward in the development of artificial intelligence. It opens up a whole new range of possibilities for how we can use language models to interact with the world around us.

For example, Bard could be used to provide real-time translation of sign language, or to help people with visual impairments navigate their surroundings. It could also be used to create interactive learning experiences, or to generate new creative content.

The possibilities are endless, and it will be exciting to see how people start to use Bard in the years to come.

Availability:

The updated version of Google Bard is available now in over 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, and Spanish. It is also available in countries like Brazil and across Europe.

To try out Bard, simply visit the Google Bard website: https://bard.google.com/.

👀Generative AI Can Help Your Business, But Use It Carefully

Generative AI is a powerful technology that can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in businesses of all sizes. However, it's important to use GAI carefully to avoid potential risks.

One way to use GAI to boost productivity is to use it to generate first drafts of documents, such as memos, strategic analyses, and marketing materials. GAI can be a valuable tool for generating ideas and content, but it's important to remember that it's not a replacement for human judgment.

Here are four things to keep in mind when using GAI to boost productivity:

1. Protect yourself against chatbot inaccuracies. Chatbots can make mistakes, so it's important to double-check their responses. You should also ask the same question to more than one chatbot to see if the answers are consistent.

2. Include context in your ChatGPT prompt. When you type your prompt into ChatGPT, provide context for your question. This will help ChatGPT to generate a more accurate and relevant response.

3. Don't provide proprietary information. Chatbots use the information you provide to train themselves. There is probably no way to delete the information you type into ChatGPT, so avoid sharing any personal information or company confidential data.

4. Treat ChatGPT's response as a rough draft, not a final product. ChatGPT's responses should be treated as rough drafts, not final products. You should always review and edit ChatGPT's responses before using them.

By following these tips, you can safely experiment with many ways to boost your productivity using generative AI chatbots.

Here are some additional tips for using GAI safely and effectively:

• Be aware of the limitations of GAI. GAI is not a replacement for human intelligence, and it can make mistakes.

• Use GAI for tasks that are well-suited for automation. GAI is best used for tasks that are repetitive, time-consuming, or require a lot of research.

• Monitor the results of your GAI experiments. As you use GAI, pay attention to the results and make adjustments as needed.

• Be transparent about your use of GAI. If you use GAI to generate content, be sure to disclose that to your audience.

🚁 The Future of Warfare Is Here

Netflix documentary "UNKNOWN: Killer Robots" gives us a glimpse into a future where autonomous weapons are commonplace. These machines can kill without human intervention, making them incredibly dangerous.

The experts argue that killer robots could be hacked or fall into the wrong hands and that they could be used to commit atrocities.

The development of killer robots could also lead to a new arms race, as countries compete to develop the most powerful and sophisticated autonomous weapons. This could make the world a much more dangerous place.

Documentary reminds us that the future of warfare is already here, and that we need to start thinking about the potential dangers of killer robots. We need to demand that governments take steps to regulate the development and use of these machines, before it's too late.

👨‍🚀 Shopify launches AI Business Assistant

Online shop owners are going to love this... Shopify is launching a commerce-specific AI digital assistant called Sidekick

That's that for today! See you next Tuesday!
Tony