Google on Wednesday said it would soon
integrate the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities of generating text and other content in search results.
At a launch event in Paris on Wednesday, Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan --
senior vice president at Google, who is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Ads, and more -- said the chatbot service Bard would enable users to interact with information in "entirely new
ways."
Google, as it announced Monday in a post, will initially release Bard with a lightweight, modern version of Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), which
requires a much smaller model needs significantly less computing power.
Raghavan believes the only limit to search will be your imagination, and said Google wants media to become a multisense
and multisearch experience. He touted improvements around Translate, Maps and Lens, and searching with images and text.
He also said that Google will release Bard to trusted testers this week,
with a “high bar for quality, safety and groundedness before launching more broadly.”
The company did not provide further details.
Raghavan did demonstrate how someone
would ask about the best constellations to look for when stargazing. It showed a detailed conversational answer directly on the search page. Since the presentation, the video replay was made
private.