Google has recently unveiled its plan to develop another product with two billion users, according to a Reuters report.
Bard, which lets consumers brainstorm and fetch information with the help of new artificial intelligence, is laying the groundwork for Google to attract still more customers, its Product Lead Jack Krawczyk reportedly said in an interview.
Krawczyk quoted in the report was saying, “Among the opportunities is the company’s plan to liven its timer-setting, command-fulfilling Google Assistant with Bard’s collaborative responses. Connecting these products, first via mobile devices in the coming months, will introduce AI to more people.”
Bard is a conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google, based initially on the LaMDA family of large language models (LLMs) and later PaLM. It was developed as a direct response to the rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and was released in a limited capacity in March 2023, before expanding it to other countries in May.
AI space is becoming crowded and highly competitive. Despite the competition, a Reuters report cited data from Similar Web claiming that Bard’s web traffic grew by 2% in October to 8.7 million, indicating a shift in how consumers gather information.
Krawczyk said his mandate is to improve Bard’s helpfulness rather than sweat chances for monetisation like a subscription model or ads. Retention has varied over time with the introduction of faster and double-checked responses.
According to company data, the Google Assistant lives on more than one billion devices. Google’s outlook underscores ambitions for AI at parent Alphabet, which to date has six products each attracting billions of users, among them Gmail and YouTube. Google has recently unveiled its plan to develop another product with two billion users, according to a Reuters report. Bard, which lets consumers brainstorm and fetch information with the help of new artificial intelligence, is laying the groundwork for Google to attract still more customers, its Product Lead Jack Krawczyk reportedly said in an interview.
