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Google Stock Dropped 8% After Flubbed Bard Keynote
“After the Bard launch and this keynote, Google stock drops eight percent on that day.”
Kawasaki: Leading AI models lack distinct brand positioning and differentiation
“Like today, if I had to explain to someone when to use ChatGPT, when to use Bard, when to use Perplexity, when to use Claude, when to use all this, you know, I don't know if I could, I can't. I mean, I use all fives kind of at random, and it's like, in the car…”
Lambert: Anthropic, ChatGPT, and Bard Use Post-Generation Moderation Classifiers
“Anthropic and ChatGPT and Bard almost surely have a classifier after, which is like, is this text good? Is this text bad?”
Isenberg: Productized Services Will Fall Flat as AI Tools Replace Service Providers
“And I think that's where a lot of productized services are going to fall flat. Is there going to be a service that of course provides some value, but I think that in an AI generated world, like people are looking for partners, not service providers because ser…”
Atawodi: PMs fail if AI can write their PRDs from research alone
“If I could put all the research into BARD or ChatGPT, and it could spit out a PRD, Then you haven't done your job.”
Embedding LLMs in existing products constrains open-ended user behavior
“The challenge when you put a language model into an existing product is there's going to be a natural constraint of that. If all of a sudden I'm in Google Docs, and I want to ask for vacation ideas that I want to explore, or I'm trying to figure out what are s…”
Google frames Bard as an experiment because LLMs aren't fully baked products
“It's part of why we talked about Bard as an experiment at this point. We don't think that this technology is yet ready to be a fully baked product.”
Information retrieval is not the majority use case for Google Bard
“Some people, and it turns out not the majority use case, but some people are going to use it to try to find information.”
Google initially delayed real-time streaming in Bard to enable content filtering
“Like today, before I came here, we just talked about Bard being able to respond in real time. Other language models have been able to do that, but we have elected to present results in piecemeal, because it allows us to do a certain amount of filtering.”
Asking 'why not today' forces prioritization without creating interpersonal conflict
“And early on, we started saying things like, why tomorrow, why not today? Because what that ends up forcing isn't this, like, uncomfortable clash of, like, how dare you make it make something I'm asking for not a priority. It's, hey, share your priorities. Lik…”
Polishing AI products internally lets the fast-moving market pass you by
“If you spend all your time trying to build the world's greatest product, the world's gonna move past you.”
Google delayed Bard's coding capabilities because the initial version lacked quality
“We knew that code, for example, was something that people were using language models for, but we didn't think it was good enough, and so at some point we made the decision to say, look, code's not ready, so code launched a couple weeks after we launched”
Google Bard no longer hallucinates on time and weather queries
“Which, happy to report, Bard does not hallucinate now on time and weather.”
Google initially delayed streaming Bard responses to complete real-time copyright checks
“One of the things that we started to see in some of these outputs as you start to kind of stream them out is, well, even though it was a function of probability and not regurgitation of copyrighted material, you would get a response, and then at the end of the…”
Google Bard declines sensitive breaking news queries to avoid inaccurate summaries
“We're making the decision to basically say, it feels like a higher risk to respond with something That is not a fair summary than just saying, we'd rather take the approach to say, like, I can't help with that yet.”
Adams: Google will be fine despite a slow start with Bard
“I think other companies like Google with Bard Have to do it, you know, and maybe they were a little bit slow, but it's so early in this tech cycle that I think they're fine.”
Suleyman: Google Bard Uses LaMDA's Search-Grounded Model Architecture
“And actually that's what you now see in Bard, you know, Google's new AI. It's pretty much exactly the same model.”
Ramaswamy: Google's competitive position improved by mid-2023 due to Bing's slow progress
“There's now a pretty credible integration into a regular search. And Bard is getting better by the day. And this combined with the fact that you know, Sydney, Bing's chatbot has not made as much progress. I would say actually puts them in a better position in …”
Hoffman: Dialogue generated by GPT-4, Bard, and Bing is pablum
“Every time I've tried to do dialogue, and I think that's also true of all the others, you know, Bard and Bing, when I try to get it to construct dialogue, Pablum, Is the word that comes to mind, right?”
Morin: Google's Bard mobile interface is arguably the best AI search tool
“The interface is really nice. It's arguably the best AI search interface out there right now.”
Teller: Google Brain and Transformer foundations originated inside Alphabet's X lab
“One of the early things that we did was a thing which, when we graduated back to Google, was called Google Brain. Google Brain is the origin of much of what you now think of as Bard, and so that was an example in the earlier days of X of us making something, r…”
Calacanis notes Google's PaLM 2 will power 25 products
“Google's language model is going to power. 25 products, including Bard, which is got coding capabilities now, I guess to go up against GitHub's co-pilot.”