Google Bard gets programming capabilities

Google updated its Bard AI adding programming, code generation, and debugging capabilities

Google updated its Bard AI adding programming, code generation, and debugging capabilities. | Photo Credit: Reuters

Google has updated Bard, its generative AI model, with programming and software development capabilities.

With the update, Google’s AI chatbot can generate software code, debug, and explain a code.

The chatbot will support more than 20 programming languages, including C++, Java and Python, Google said in a blog post.

Additionally, Bard will also be able to explain snippets of code, which Google says will be useful for users looking to learn to program.

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Earlier, last month, Google started the public release of Bard after Microsoft-backed OpenAI released its AI chatbot ChatGPT, which spurred on a race in AI development.

Google calls Bard an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI that uses data to identify content. The generative AI chatbot is currently available for a small set of users who can use it to ask questions in place of traditional Google search.