Google’s Bard AI is now available, with no waitlist. This is what it told me about its capabilities, when prompted…

Initial testers of Bard were not impressed, when it first appeared. But this is Google, and they’ll improve it. For instance just over a week ago they plugged PaLM 2 into Bard. Which is said to add Python and JavaScript code-writing and debugging abilities, trained from a gazillion lines of working code on GitHub. Along with that comes a better understanding of maths and logic.

Worth another look (if you’re outside the EU, since it’s blocked there), and it’s pleasingly Google-fast.

It can also parse dense online PDFs into a Q&A format. For instance…

Browse URL_HERE.pdf read it fully and give me 10 questions and answers about this pdf’s content.