G oogle has given its Bard AI chatbot the ability to speak and respond in more than 40 languages as part of a major new update. Upon its launch in May, the bot was as multilingual as the average person, with the ability to reply in three languages: English, Korean, and Japanese. But it has quickly transformed into a polyglot by learning Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, Spanish, and more tongues. Whether it has a firm grasp of those vernacualrs remains to be seen. Despite people around the world already using chatbots like ChatGPT for their work and studies, researchers have...