Google\u2019s Bard AI chatbot is no longer limited to pulling answers from just the web \u2014 it can now scan your Gmail, Docs, and Drive to help you find the information you\u2019re looking for. With the new integration<\/a>, you can ask Bard to do things like find and summarize the contents of an email or even highlight the most important points of a document you have stored in Drive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There\u2019s a whole range of use cases for these integrations, which Google calls extensions, but they should save you from having to sift through a mountain of emails or documents to find a particular piece of information. You can then have Bard use that information in other ways, such as putting it into a chart or creating a bulleted summary. This feature is only available in English for now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While giving Bard access to your personal email and documents will raise concerns about privacy and data usage, Google says that it won\u2019t use this information to train Bard\u2019s public model, nor will it be seen by human reviewers. You also don\u2019t have<\/em> to turn on the integrations with Gmail, Docs, and Drive. Google will ask you to opt in first, and you can disable it at any time. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n To use the feature, Jack Krawczyk, the product lead of Bard, tells The Verge <\/em>you can either have Bard directly search within your Gmail, for example, by prefacing your question with @mail. Or, you could just simply ask, \u201cCheck my email for information related to my upcoming flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the first time a language model product is truly integrating with your personal data\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Bard\u2019s extensions aren\u2019t limited to just Gmail, Docs, and Drive, either. Google also announced that the chatbot will also connect with Maps, YouTube, and Google Flights. This means you can now ask Bard to pull real-time flight information, find nearby attractions, surface YouTube videos on a certain topic, and a lot more. Google will enable these three extensions by default.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe reason we\u2019re starting with this experiment… is primarily because it\u2019s the first time a language model product is truly integrating with your personal data,\u201d Krawczyk says. \u201cWe want to make sure we get that right.\u201d Krawczyk adds that Google plans on expanding Bard\u2019s integrations to more \u201cproducts across Google as well as partners outside of Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Google is making some other notable improvements to Bard, too. That includes a new way to double-check Bard\u2019s answers through the chatbot\u2019s \u201cGoogle It\u201d button. While the button previously let you search for topics related to Bard\u2019s answer on Google, it will now show whether Bard\u2019s answers contain information that Google Search corroborates or contradicts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you press the \u201cGoogle It\u201d button on supported answers, Google will highlight the information verified by Search in green, while any unvalidated answers will be highlighted in orange. You can mouse over the highlighted sentences for more context on what Bard might\u2019ve gotten right or wrong. Google is also adding a way to continue a conversation with Bard based on a shared link, allowing you to build on a question someone has already asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since introducing Bard in February, Google has been gradually adding more features, including the ability to generate and debug code<\/a>, as well as create functions for Google Sheets. Google recently added support for Google Lens in Bard<\/a>, letting you use the tool to brainstorm caption ideas for a photo or find more information about it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n