Google Bard was definitely a focal point of Google I/O 2023 earlier this month, with the introduction of multimodal functionality grabbing most of the headlines. Multimodal functionality allows Bard to both respond to prompts with images and to process context when provided with images instead of a text-only prompt, and it's all thanks to the PaLM 2 large language model.
As of this writing, Bard can’t yet handle image inputs, but it can deliver image outputs. So I decided to put this feature to the test by asking it three tech questions that any one of our readers could need an answer to right now. Here’s what happened.
