Today, one thing is certain, doubts are piling up around the Bard. We’ve said more than once that Google’s stance on its deployment is understandable, and that a misstep during it can destroy much of the trust that many users have in the company, and that can have devastating effects on your user fee, and therefore your income, which fundamentally depends on how we use your services.

During his presentation, Bard made the mistake of attributing the origin of an image he attributed to James Webb when it was actually taken by a different telescope. The bug was quickly discovered and went viral, casting doubt on the reliability of Google’s chatbot even before anyone outside the company could test it. And if that happened with a single bug, imagine what would happen if they started popping up in the hundreds or thousands in the public beta.

That being said, Google has a lot at stake from this point of view as well it is understandable that they are so cautious. However, the pressure from Microsoft with the new Bing is forcing them to react quickly with Bard. A few weeks ago the beta was finally opened to private users, albeit only from the US and the UK, and we also learned more than a week ago that the company is going to change (maybe already has) the model it uses, moving from LaMDA on PaLM, which should lead to a substantial improvement of the chatbot.

The next Google I/O should bring news about Bard and other AI integrations.

However, there are so many doubts that until today it was not even clear to us whether Bard (as such, not other AI tools) will be integrated into other services or, on the contrary, will remain as a separate service. Until now, because according to what we can read in The Wall Street Journal, Sundar Pichai confirmed that Bard will be integrated into the Google search engine. This may seem obvious, but it wasn’t so obvious because it’s the search engine integration that can pose the biggest risks to a company.

This of course explains that there are no deadlines for this at the moment. However, we are a month and a day away from the start of Google I/O 2023, when the company should really hit the table this time to improve its image in the artificial intelligence market. Granted, yes they’ve made announcements like Bard itself as well as integrating AI into Gmail, Docs, and more, but with massive deployments from Microsoft and other companies, they’re either moving fast or in danger of becoming obsolete. .