Google’s conversation AI tool Bard can now help software developers with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation— a new set of skills that were added in response to user demand.
Coding has been one of the top requests Google has received from users, according to Friday a blog post by Google Research product lead Paige Bailey.
Google said Friday it is launching these software development capabilities in more than 20 programming languages including C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python and Typescript. Users can export Python code to Google Colab. Bard can also help with writing functions for Google Sheets.
Collectively, this means that Bard, the generative AI experiment Google launched earlier this year, can review and help users debug their source code line and line. Google said developers can tell Bard “this code didn’t work, please fix it,” and it will help debug.
It can also translate code from one language to another and explain code snippets, a helpf …
