Bard AI Is Boring: Google Explains Why They Want It That Way | WSJ

Google’s new experimental AI chatbot, Bard, is joining the AI wars but remains more restricted than OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing. It can also get things wrong.

“This is a powerful technology. We wanna make sure that we understand how to bring it in a responsible way to people,” says head of Bard, Sissie Hsiao.

WSJ's Joanna Stern discusses it all with Hsiao in an exclusive interview.

0:00 Meet Bard, Google’s early experimental generative AI
0:35 How Bard works and why it has errors
3:18 How Bard’s early limitations come from Google’s responsible AI approach
4:34 Bard’s future

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[the_ikiru]

Being called boring is not a compliment, Google. Yahoo Search was also happy to be called boring 20 years ago. So far, Google is losing this race.

[YT-mpei]

Love the direct and uncomfortable questions Joanna asked.

[kennethshupe]

Youtubers keep mentioning how Google can't be as risky as Microsoft in search because they have more to lose. Remember, Google was THE KING of just throwing on "Beta" onto whatever they were doing for years. If Google could do it, they could just throw on "Beta" to whatever they are working on.

[chelseaxhf]

How can your team be so satisfied with a defect product? It reminds me the early day of Apple Map. Just admit google has a lot work to do, it’s not that hard.

[parthibanarivalagan]

It’s time google should acknowledge what their shortcomings are, in terms of generative ai with bard, they should be vocal about their ethics and concern about this technology as they seem to be more concerned about it .

[blackbeans]

I'm getting NOKIA vibes from google right now. In denial that they are getting destroyed by the competition.

[sebastianlaguerta]

SO what Google is saying is they intentionally made BARD stupid against a very smart competitor? Yeah.. so much for a TECH giant..

[HigherQualityUploads]

You don't want "boring" if you want active daily users. You want usefulness. This reeks of cope. They should just buy OpenAI before Microsoft does.

[benman]

Lame. I want an insanely powerful GPT that isn't intentionally blocked on its responses- don't need others to think for me, thanks

[loctruong]

Remember about 10 years ago when we used Google translate (I am Vietnamese). The translation at that time was awful, we could easily notice it was from Google translate. People usually joked about bad writing as a product of Google translate. Look at Google translates now, it has done the job even better than average humans. Youtube also generates subtitles so correct a few recent years, that was a huge improvement. I believe in Google when they really want to focus on something. Look forward to using Bard when it is available in my country.

[probablyhades]

I would love to hear Joanna speak directly to the developers as opposed to the leader of the team, I feel like they would be more open about the flaws of Bard and why it does what it does.

[Zero_ss]

Its also crazy how overpaid the google ceo is considering how little value has been added in the past years. Tons of expensive failures like stadia though

[nathancooke]

Nobody wants something boring 🙄. People want exciting and to feel alive! 🎉

[SweetSpot]

we were told Google had all this secret AI tech and then they come out with half baked jam session song.

[hector.abrach]

I played with Bard, and it is very wrong. It feels more like a typical chat bot, ChatGPT feels way superior.

[kaseyc]

I’m surprised Sundar still has a job. Google has been incredibly stagnant and behind the curve. Cloud and now LLM…

[TimothyCollins]

Kinda sounds to me like Google is saying "we give up - you do the work to figure out the correct answers to what you're searching for."

[carls-]

It's just been released and there are a lot of pitfalls and unknowns regarding how to effectively implement an AI language tool to the masses, which is trained on literally the entire internet... I find it baffling that people can't see why Google is being cautious and methodical with it's launch. But, then I guess that's why none of us are CEOs of a billion dollar company 🤷🏾‍♂️

[lemonking]

We are truly witnessing the Fall of Google

[HaHaBIah]

Feels like Bard's still a few months behind.