Google Plans to Make Artificial Intelligence Chatbot ‘Bud’ a 2 Billion User Product

Google has ambitious plans for its experimental AI chatbot, Bard. The company sees Bard as a way to create another product with two billion users, a feat only a handful of products have achieved to date.

Bard aims to help users brainstorm and customize the way they get information from the Internet. Google believes that Bard makes artificial intelligence more accessible and useful to the average consumer.

One of Bard’s main strategies is to integrate its features with Google Assistant, a popular tool used by millions of people to set timers and execute commands. This integration, which will initially be available on mobile devices, is expected to introduce AI to a wider audience.

Google’s broader goal is to expand the use of AI. Its parent company, Alphabet, already has six products including Google Search and YouTube, each with billions of users.

However, competition in the AI space is becoming more intense. Amazon plans to upgrade its Alexa assistant to have similar AI-generating capabilities, and OpenAI recently added voice commands to its ChatGPT tool.

Despite the competition, Google believes Bard has the potential to become a major player in the AI chatbot market. The company is committed to improving Bard’s ability to help and learn how to effectively meet the needs of a large number of users.

Challenges.

One of the challenges Bard faces is hallucinating or making up content that doesn’t exist. For example, in one instance, when Bard was asked to analyze the contents of a user’s Gmail inbox, Bard showed emails that didn’t exist.

Google is working to address this challenge, but it’s worth noting that Bard is still in the development phase. It’s also important to use Bard responsibly and understand its limitations.