Google's Bard AI is working on enabling you to communicate with your Chromebook as if it were a person.
I'm actually going to talk about how you could converse with your laptop in the same way that Tony Stark converses with Jarvis today, which is something I never imagined I'd say because it just seems so unbelievable to say aloud. For years, the ChromeOS launcher has included Google Assistant, but it's a long cry from the highly developed, context-aware AI that Iron Man has built into his suit.
But the current ChatGPT explosion has alarmed both Google and Microsoft, and some reports even claim that Google has hurried their "Apprentice Bard" AI to market as a response. You can speak casually to any of the chatbots that are currently accessible or those that will be in the near future, and they will all respond with responses that are human-like. The distinction is that, despite being trained on actual data, it automatically creates a response. This indicates that it isn't simply delivering the same results that Google Search or other search engines have been returning for the previous thirty years.
One would assume that's all there is to it given the recent revelation that Apprentice Bard will be immediately incorporated into Google Search, similar to how ChatGPT has been put into Bing Search. However, according to a recent claim by 9to5Google, the tech company is trying to enable Chromebook users to speak or text straight to Bard by tapping the "Everything" icon on their keyboard.
The launching experiment, dubbed "Conversational Search," is simply that—an experiment. Yes, many of the other ChromeOS launcher experiments did succeed, but just because something is being tested doesn't mean it will necessarily succeed. Having said that, despite Google never having acknowledged it, I do believe Bard will be a Google Assistant improvement.
It makes perfect sense to improve the Assistant's intelligence using LaMDA and position it from a marketing perspective as a boost to its contextual and conversational skills because people will accept it more readily than they would a new product.
Although it's still recent news, I can see Bard being incorporated into Google Shopping and many other Google services as a means to amicably chat with an AI to select the appropriate product by asking questions similar to those you might ask a friend or salesperson. We still have a wild decade ahead of us, but only time will tell what the future of AI in big tech holds.
