Alphabet Inc.'s Google said on Friday it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast ...

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now able to help users with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation.

Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.

Programmers will be able to ask Colab AI programming-related questions, and the chatbot will hopefully provide a non-hallucinated answer with instructions and code samples.