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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.”
Persistent memory for LLMs will take much longer to solve than expected
“And so I am beyond Fascinated and intrigued by the research that's taking place around memory and being able to reference things from previous conversations, but I think it's going to take way longer than we expect.”
Google Bard no longer hallucinates on time and weather queries
“Which, happy to report, Bard does not hallucinate now on time and weather.”
LLM inference costs will decrease significantly in relatively short order
“I think you're gonna see the cost of inference tend to go down. Inference is the cost to actually serve and run the model. I think you're gonna see those things go down in relatively short order.”
Google initially experimented with integrating Meena and LaMDA into Assistant
“When I first got to Google in 2020, We were experimenting with a technology that was then called MENA, one of the first language models that was out available in the market. MENA became Lambda, and what we were experimenting with was, how do we get this very c…”
Bard evaluates generated responses sentence-by-sentence against the web
“We recently launched something that we call the V-two of our Google It button, which when you receive a response on 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…”