Google’s Bard generative AI service might not be siloed off into its own separate website for very long.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal(Opens in a new tab), 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 WSJ that 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.
