Google recently launched an AI chatbot called Bard which can now help software developers with programming tasks such as generating code, debugging and code explanation. This update is a direct response to user demand, as coding has been one of the top requests for the conversation AI tool. More than twenty programming languages are currently supported by this new release such as C++, Go, Java, Javascript and Python. The intuitive program allows users to ask Bard to explain code snippets, debug and fix their source code line by line, pave the way to development and write functions for Google Sheets, as well as translates code from one language to another.
Paige Bailey, the product lead for Google Research, wrote a blog post for Google stating that Bard, being an experimental and generative AI, may give incorrect or misleading information while presenting it confindently. Nevertheless, the updates in Bard’s capabilities can still help users in ways such as writing code, creating test cases or updating APIs. When Bard uses existing open source projects, it cites the source accordingly.
Google is a multinational technology company that focuses on internet-related services and products such as search engine, cloud computing, software and others. It was founded on September 4th 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has become one of the biggest internet-related companies in the world.
Paige Bailey is an AI researcher and the product lead for Google Research. She works at Brain Team in Google Research on deep learning systems, Conversational AI and machine learning. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master’s Degree from the University of Washington.
