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- Bard is a form of AI that
we call augmented imagination.

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It takes the ideas that
you have in your head

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and helps you explore different ways

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to, to bring them to life.

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- So Jack, you head up
Bard at Google, right?

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Which is Google's chatbot.

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What I'm curious about
is what this stuff is

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actually useful for.

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- When we started Bard
as an experiment in March

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of this year, we had a
hypothesis coming in, which was,

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it is a collaborator with ai,

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meaning it's not a search engine,

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it's a possibility generator.

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And we took lengths to talk
about, here's some ways

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that we believe that you can
use this as a possibility.

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Generator, brainstorming an idea,

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help you develop something.

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And what's interesting,
where we were in March to

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where we are now, there's this tendency

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that new product experiences tend to have,

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which is you anchor them
to the most familiar thing

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that was recently available to you.

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So of course, people came in

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and started to type in
things that felt familiar

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to a search engine.

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We're working on this notion
of combining Bard's capability

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of doing things with you, with
Google Assistant's ability

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to do things for you
and assistant with Bard.

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But at over time, what we
found is the amount of context

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that people give to Bard
isn't like a search engine.

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It's like somebody that
they're working with.

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And this notion that it helps
people find a possibility

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that they might not have
explored leans into this thing

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that we've been talking about for a while,

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which is Bard is a form of AI

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that we call augmented imagination.

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It takes the ideas that
you have in your head

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and helps you explore different ways

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to, to bring them to life.

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- Why is it so hard

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to bring these large
language models to heal?

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Like what is the technical challenge here?

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Is there an easy way to explain that?

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- Well, I, I wanna be clear about the,

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the shape of the problem.

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If you ask a question
like, is the sky blue,

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we probably have a visceral
response to that, which is,

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if somebody asks me, is the sky blue?

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I'll say yes. Is that technically
accurate? No, it's not.

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Let's say you're, you're
writing a short story

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that you wanna talk about,
you know, do aliens exist

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and you wanna create something about that?

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In many cases, you can get a
very short, precise answer.

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We don't have any information
that suggests that it does.

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But what we find from people
using Bard is they want

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to explore what would happen
if maybe aliens existed so

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that I can sort of take my creative flows

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to, to the next level.

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And Bard kind of helps them

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think through those kinds of things.

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And so it's really less
about just getting them

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to not make things up.

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It's about giving people
the control of, Hey,

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when do you want this thing
to be making things up?

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And so we start to introduce things like,

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maybe you don't want to
eliminate making things up.

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You want to give people control

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of when it's making things
up versus when you need

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to make sure that you're
double checking something.

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And so in September we
launched the capability

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to double check a response
that you get from Bart.

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- Bart has this new set of
features called extensions

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that lets the AI work across
different Google products.

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So for example, you can say,
I'm planning a solo trip

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to Austin this spring.

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Can you find me flights
and recommend things to do?

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And Bard will go give you a long list

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of useful recommendations
that you could even narrow

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by saying something like, I want you

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to focus on barbecue
spots and hiking trails.

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You can have it do
research for you on YouTube

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and it'll recommend videos
and spit out quick summaries,

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or it'll even go dig through
your Gmail inbox to find

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that message you're looking for.

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Figure out when your shoes
are finally gonna arrive.

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Google has a pretty unique idea

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to fix the AI hallucination problem.

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Bard has a new feature
called double check, where

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after it gives you a response,
you can click a little button

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and it'll go search the web

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to see if it just made anything up.

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If it finds other people
saying the same things

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that bar just told you, it'll
give you a link to websites

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that have the same information.

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And if it can't find anything
to back up its answer,

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it'll highlight it in red to tell you

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that you might want to go double check.

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It's a preview of a future
where all of the various things

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that you want to do on
your computer get easier,

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more interoperable, and a
little bit less annoying.

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What should people be
looking forward to next year?

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- I think it's answering the question

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that you started our conversation
with, which is, okay,

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I'm not a software developer,
I'm not a digital creator,

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I'm not a student.

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I'm just, you know, a person
living in Western Pennsylvania

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trying to, you know, trying
to find something to,

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to be helpful in my,
in my day-to-Day life.

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You're gonna start to find
answers for those things.

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We think some of them are already there,

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but I also acknowledge
that like three quarters

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of the world, it's still
not used generative ai.

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And it's not from not having
heard of it, it is about that.

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How can it be helpful for me?

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And what I hope for people
around the world is they start

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to feel the power of what it's like

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to have a trusted confidant

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that you can bounce your ideas off of

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and it's not gonna judge you.

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And when people start to experience that

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and give us the feedback,
we're going to continue to,

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to accelerate the progress

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that we can make in that alignment.

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How do you make this profound
technology helpful in a

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responsible way?