with google alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the success of the newly launched Bard AI program rests on public testing.
“When more people start using Bard and testing its features, they will surprise us. writing.
The message to employees will be sent Tuesday morning when Google launches Bard as an “experiment” after months of anticipation. The product is built on Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Conversational Applications) and is designed to answer complex and open-ended questions such as ‘Give me ideas on how to introduce my daughter to fly fishing’. You can provide a chatty answer to that.
Alphabet shares rose about 4% in intraday trading after the announcement.
In many of the product’s disclaimers, the company warns that Bard may make mistakes or “respond inaccurately or inappropriately.”
The latest internal message comes as the company tries to keep up with rapidly evolving generative AI technologies over the past few months, particularly Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its ChatGPT technology.
Employees and investors criticized Google after Bard first announced it in January. This appeared to be rushing to compete with his Bing integration of ChatGPT, which Microsoft just announced. At a recent all-hands meeting, employees’ top-rated questions included confusion about Bard’s purpose. At that meeting, management defended Bard as an experiment, trying to distinguish between a chatbot and its core search product.
Pichai’s Tuesday email also said 80,000 Google employees contributed to Bard’s test, pleading with employees to rewrite the chatbot’s bad answers in response to Pichai’s all-hands call to action last month. said.
Pichai’s Tuesday memo also said the company is trying to test responsibly, inviting 10,000 trusted testers “from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives.”
Pichai also said employees “should be proud of this work and the years of technological breakthroughs that have brought us here, including the 2017 Transformer study and foundational models such as Palm and BERT.” said. He added: “Even after all this progress, we are still in the early stages of a long Al journey.
“For now, I’m excited to see how Bird will spark the creativity and curiosity of those who use it.”
Here are the full notes:
Hello Googlers
Last week was a big week for Al with announcements around cloud, developers and workspaces. There’s a lot more to come this week as we begin expanding access to his Bard, first announced in February.
Starting today, people in the US and UK can sign up bard.google.comThis is just the first step and we plan to expand to more countries and languages ​​in the future.
Thanks to the Bard team for spending more time with Bard than probably anyone over the past few weeks. He also thanks his 80,000 Googlers for their help in testing company-wide dog food. We should be proud of this achievement and the technological breakthroughs that have come along over the years, including his Transformer survey in 2017 and foundational models such as Palm and BERT.
Even after all this progress, we are still in the early stages of a long Al journey, and it would be amazing to see more people using Bard to test its capabilities. Things will go wrong. However, user feedback is important to improve the product and its underlying technology.
We take a responsible approach to development, including inviting 10,000 trusted testers from different backgrounds and perspectives. We will continue to welcome all feedback going forward. We learn from it and keep iterating and improving.
So far, I’m excited to see how the Bard will spark the creativity and curiosity of those who use it. We also look forward to sharing the full story of our progress with Al to help people, businesses, and communities as we head into May’s I/O.
— Thunder