Google Updates Bard With Travel Info to Rival ChatGPT Plus – We Tested It Out
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Google has released an updated version of the Bard generative AI chatbot that includes extensions with real-time travel data for flights and hotels.
As of Tuesday, Bard users can activate five extensions that connect with Google products: Maps, Flights, Hotels, YouTube, and Workspace, which includes Gmail, Docs, and Drive. Bard can then provide information from any of those products in answers it generates.
That means Bard users can now ask the chatbot for a specific flight or hotel availability, and it responds with options and booking links, elevating the basic itinerary creation function to one that’s more practical.
That puts the latest version of Bard in direct competition with ChatGPT Plus, which has a marketplace of more than 200 third-party plugins that users can enable to access real-time information when interacting with the chatb
