Bard (Gemini Pro)

Google Gemini (formerly Bard) is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot tool designed by Google to simulate human conversations using natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding (NLU) technologies. It is a large language model (LLM) that can understand and generate text, translate languages, write creative content, and answer questions in an informative way.

Key Features:
- Natural Language Processing (NLP): Gemini can understand and process language, enabling it to understand and recognize images, parse complex visuals, and provide realistic, natural language responses to user questions.
- Multimodal Capabilities: Gemini is natively multimodal, meaning it's trained end to end on data sets spanning multiple data types, including text, audio, code, and video. It supports directly ingesting text, images, audio waveforms, and video frames as interleaved sequences.
- Multilingual Capabilities: Gemini has broad multilingual capabilities for translation tasks and functionality across different languages.
- Cross-Modal Reasoning: Gemini can reason across a sequence of different input data types, including audio, images, and text, enabling it to understand handwritten notes, graphs, and diagrams to solve complex problems.
- Integration with Google Services: Gemini can be integrated into websites, messaging platforms, or applications to provide realistic, natural language responses to user questions. It can also be used to improve the web experience for users by being incorporated into the Google Chrome browser.
- Feedback Mechanisms: Gemini has built-in feedback mechanisms, allowing users to mark good responses with the thumbs up button and bad ones with the thumbs down, and use "Report legal issue" when appropriate.
- Limited Turns: Gemini's ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now to enable more topical and helpful interactions, but its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve as it continues to learn.

Ongoing Development:
Ongoing research and development are being conducted to improve Gemini's capabilities, guided by Google's AI Principles, which focus on delivering substantial social benefit.

Release Date:
The release date of Google Gemini is December 6, 2023.