Even Google throws itself headlong into the world of artificial intelligence with Bard. Let’s see together how it works and how it can be used in Italy
After the great success of ChatGPT and Bing Chat, Google has also churned out its artificial intelligence: it is called Google Bard and promises to answer any question quickly, quickly and efficiently. The trial version of the service is accessible to all users who have a Google account but, at the time of writing, it is not available in Italy and in the countries of the European Union.
In the following guide we will show you how to use Google Bard in Italyshowing you the best tools for accessing Google’s AI service by masking your IP address, so that you’re in the United States or any other country that supports Google Bard (i.e. any state that’s not part of the European Union).
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1) Access Google Bard from Italy
As mentioned in the introduction Google Bard is currently not officially accessible from Italy: it is not known when this thing will change but if we want to try the service we are obliged to change IP address using a VPN service or proxy to the United States or another country compatible with the service (for example the United Kingdom).
With Google Chrome we can download convenient free extensions to access Google Bard for free, without having to pay anything to mask the IP; the best ones to try now are CyberGhost VPN Free Proxy e VPNLYboth accessible immediately without registration and without an account.
If instead we use Microsoft Edge we can try the extensions VPN Proxy VeePN e Urban VPN Proxy to hide traffic and access Google Bard from Italy.
A great alternative to extensions is the browser Operawhich has a built-in VPN out of the box to access Google’s AI service.
On the same topic we can read the guides to best free secure and unlimited VPN on PC and smartphone and you have best Proxy websites for free and without registration.
2) Use Google Bard
After activating the VPN service on your browser or device, simply access the Google Bard official site and confirm access with any Google account. For the purpose we can also use a Google account created in Italy: the limitation concerns only Italian and European IP addresses, but in reality anyone with a Google account can try Bard at any time.
Once we open the Google Bard page we use the prompt below to ask for anything, like already seen also with ChatGPT: we can ask to tell a story, generate a new recipe, ask about events and things that happened in the world, ask general questions, ask about famous people and much more.
Another major limitation of Google Bard concerns language support: in fact, at the moment it is only possible to use the English language for questions to ask the artificial intelligence. If we have difficulty asking questions to Google Bard we advise you to use Google translator configured in translation Italian -> Englishin order to be able to write the question in Italian and obtain an excellent translation in English, to be copied later on Google Bard.
The same thing can be done with the Google Bard answer, although in this case we can rely on the built-in translator in modern browsers to immediately get the translation of the text.
To learn more, we can read our guide on how to read any site or web page translated into Italian.
3) Better Google Bard or ChatGPT?
Comparing Google Bard with its fiercest rival (i.e. ChatGPT) we can immediately notice a great advantage: Bard is very fast in generating all responsewithout having to build it verbatim as ChatGPT does now.
The request it is in fact processed by Bard in a few secondsimmediately generating the first draft and creating the other drafts based on the same request in real time (just press the top Draft to see the variations of the answers provided, choosing the most suitable for the type of question asked).
From this point of view ChatGPT is much slower but it compensates for its lack of speed with support for the complete Italian language and greater precision in the answers and stories, probably thanks to all the testing carried out so far by users (especially after the explosion of artificial intelligence fashion).
Over time Bard will certainly become more precise and coherent in its answers, but for now the quality offered by ChatGPT wins over any type of request.
4) Better Google Bard or Bing Chat?
Bing Chat is a much newer AI service but based on GPT-4, an even more advanced AI synthesis engine than ChatGPT and Google Bard.
With Bing Chat we can get answers with a different level of precision (Balanced, Necessary o Creative), adapting the AI to the requests we make. Another strong point is the generation of AI images (thanks to the support of the service DALL-e 2), which can be done for free by anyone device or app with access to Bing Chat (app Bing, Microsoft Edge, SwiftKey, Windows 11 e Windows 10).
Summing up Bing Chat presents itself as a much more mature and complete service than Bard: it may not be at the level of ChatGPT in the accuracy of the answers but it does well in every scenario and also shows links, sites and web sources during its searches.
Conclusions
For the first time I can say about be very disappointed with a product created by Google: Bard has what it takes to be a good AI system but born already oldwith various limitations and problems that prevent its daily use (as is already the case with ChatGPT and Bing Chat, always ready to use and very efficient).
Google has a lot of ground to make up and he has to hurry if he doesn’t want to miss the artificial intelligence business train: ChatGPT is already so mature that it gets paid for more speed and I’m sure that many users willingly took out the money to have the maximum speed promised by OpenAI for all subscribers.
On artificial intelligences we can read our articles on best free AI tools to work and study and on virtual friend chat app (best bots with AI).