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The picturesque Alpine village played host to presidents, prime ministers, tech CEOs and an unusually polite chorus of AI critics — and for the first time in the Forum's 54-year history, artificial intelligence was the dominant agenda item from the opening plenary https://digitalkarachi.com/bard-your-ai-companion-for-youtube-video-exploration/ https://digitalkarachi.com/bard-your-ai-companion-for-youtube-video-exploration/ 2023-11-25T08:00:41+00:00 Bard has been steadily improving since its debut, but this week's YouTube extension upgrade finally makes Google's chatbot useful for something most of us actually do every day: hunting down a specific moment inside a 20-minute cooking video. 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