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The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google) Nov 30, 2023 · 44 mentions

• ▶ 2:35 Jack Krawczyk My journey of, uh, being one of the, uh, initial members of the Bard team was, uh, when I first got to Google in 2020, 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:53 Jack Krawczyk MENA became Lambda, and what we were experimenting with was, how do we get this very convincing sounding text-like agent to enter into Google Assistant?
• ▶ 4:45 Jack Krawczyk And that's where you see language models inside of Google starting to manifest inside of products like Gmail and Google Docs, um, through a product that we call Duet AI. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 4:45 Jack Krawczyk And that's where you see language models inside of Google starting to manifest inside of products like Gmail and Google Docs, um, through a product that we call Duet AI. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 8:51 Jack Krawczyk Bard has that as well. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 15:02 Jack Krawczyk And that has been true on Bard, and it's true across Google, that there is this curiosity of, wait, this fundamental truth of computing that's been true my entire life is no longer true. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 18:21 Jack Krawczyk You had a collection of people, the, the first team that was assembled to build Bard had not only a deep familiarity of building products inside of Google, uh, working with language model technology, understanding its opportunities and…
• ▶ 26:07 Jack Krawczyk And we have an incredible GM that oversees both Google Assistant and Bard, Sissy Shao, and she started demonstrating the behavior from the very beginnings of Bard, doing things like deeply reading the research papers,
• ▶ 28:15 Jack Krawczyk It was this feeling of when somebody new would join the team, we had this saying, welcome to Bard. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 28:52 Jack Krawczyk Like, like I was committing code the night before we, we launched our dog food version of Bard inside the company, not because I feel like, oh, it's an engineer's job to commit that. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 31:57 Jack Krawczyk I would say the biggest difference of launching Bard versus other projects that I've had the opportunity of, of being a part of and in a large company setting is, you know, on day one, the biggest gap to creating 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:36 Jack Krawczyk That's something that's really hard when you are, I don't care whether you're Google or any other large company, right?
• ▶ 35:27 Jack Krawczyk The amazing thing about working on a product like Bard is like, that genuinely feels like three lifetimes ago. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 40:01 Jack Krawczyk I can only give the perspective of what I had working on Google Assistant, which is we were struggling to get 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 52:31 Jack Krawczyk Uh, that we call the V-two of our Google It button, which when you receive a response on, uh, on BARD, and it happens to be something that you want a factual answer around, we go sentence by sentence and find, is there content from around…
• ▶ 52:31 Jack Krawczyk Uh, that we call the V-two of our Google It button, which when you receive a response on, uh, on BARD, and it happens to be something that you want a factual answer around, we go sentence by sentence and find, is there content from around…
• ▶ 1:03:37 Jack Krawczyk And the way that we got through that sort of negativity was, A, inside of the company, having cheerleaders, like, there are these meme boards inside of Google, and just, like, to see 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:40 Jack Krawczyk One thing that has tactically been very different on this project compared to other ones that I've worked on at Google is there's not an email culture so much as there is a Google chat culture. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:06:40 Jack Krawczyk One thing that has tactically been very different on this project compared to other ones that I've worked on at Google is there's not an email culture so much as there is a Google chat culture.
• ▶ 1:16:01 Jack Krawczyk I spent the first couple of months, like, really digging into BARD.