Big Tech is Obsessed with Poetry. Good news for Poets! 😜

We have a new Bard.

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The first result in Wikipedia for ‘Bard’ still is for the good old bearded wise storyteller.

The Merriam defines a bard as:

a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds

Of course, now — as with everything else — the tech guys want to change that too!

This time it’s Google.

They have created a new hype around their Google Bard.

What is Google’s Bard?

It is their AI that is supposed to help us explore our curiosity, augment our imagination and ultimately get our ideas off the ground. This time, not by simply answering our questions, but by helping us build on them.

Woah!

We can now access Bard in over 40 languages:

Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified / Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak…