【Dear Utol: Week 1 Highlights Episode 7】

Google's Bard generative AI service might not be Dear Utol: Week 1 Highlights Episode 7siloed off into its own separate website for very long.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the company will eventually incorporate large language models (or LLMs) directly into Google search. Pichai didn't give a firm timeline for when this would happen or explain precisely how it would work, but Microsoft's Bing AI search function could be a clue as to how Google's AI search could operate.

Pichai did tell WSJthat Google is testing out the ability to ask follow-up questions after an initial search query, so that's something.

This development is significant because, as of now, Google's generative AI chatbot Bard lives in a separate webpage that doesn't really interact with the company's flagship search engine. Bard is still in its testing phase and users need to sign up for a waitlist to try it out. Given that Bard has notoriously gotten information wrong in some queries, it might be a while before Google feels comfortable rolling it into the main search page.

But it will happen eventually. Get ready now.

• Google Bard is about to get supercharged
• Bing vs. Bard: The ultimate AI chatbot showdown
• What Bard gets right that ChatGPT doesn't
• The Google Bard AI chatbot is now available. How to get access.
• Google employees also think the Bard launch was 'botched' and 'rushed'

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