How To Use Google Bard Right Now 2024
Step 1: Go to Google Bard’s Website
With a new browser tab open, head to the official Google Bard website and click on “Sign In” to begin.
Step 2: Sign in to Your Google Account
You will now be led to Google’s sign-in page. Simply enter your Google account credentials and go through the sign-in process.
Step 3: Begin Using Google Bard AI
As you can already see, you will now be on Google Bard’s homepage. This is the main console with all the settings on the left sidebar and the main chat window in the center.
Unlike Bing AI which is limited to the Microsoft Edge browser, Google Bard is accessible from any browser of your liking.
To begin chatting, type out any prompt into the “Enter a Prompt here” textbox and Bard will draft out a response in seconds.
With Bard’s response now typed out, you can go ahead and keep using Google Bard for all your AI helper needs.
Google Bard Options Explained
While the process to use Google Bard is easy enough, we are highlighting the most common options you should know about to fully leverage the AI bot. Let’s begin with the left sidebar: With these options explained, let’s begin with the main chat window and explain all the features acessible here:
- Edit Prompt: Clicking this button allows users to edit their previously sent message to the bot.
- View other drafts: Expands and collapses the other drafts window where Bard houses its answer variations (three different answers) to the same query.
- Regenerate Drafts: If a user is not satisfied with the initial answer, they can choose to click this button and have Bard regenerate the response.
- Export Response: Allows users to quickly export the message onto Google Docs or as a draft in Gmail.
- Google it button: Opens up a new tab wherein Bard searches Google for more information based on your query.
- More button: Houses the copy and report buttons.
- Microphone input: Allows one to use their voice to chat with Bard. This is something OpenAI’s bot can only do with ChatGPT Chrome extensions.