Maybe Google should call its annual developers' conference Google A/I instead of Google I/O, because the company is all about embracing generative AI this year. Google debuted its latest language model, Pathways Language Model 2 or PaLM 2, which now fully-powers Bard, Google's AI chatbot rival to Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot.
According to Google, the new PaLM 2 language model has better math, logic, and reasoning skills, and is especially good at coding as it's learned over 20 programming languages — including "C++, Go, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, and even Google Sheets Functions," said vice president and general manager of Google Assistant and Bard, Sissie Hsiao. Bard can now not only write code, but also explain specific functions and answer questions about how to fix or improve code — and the resulting code snippets can be sent to Google's Colab or Replit for easy collaboration. If it pulls code from another source, it will also now cite that source.
