Google is upgrading its Bard AI with its "more capable" Pathways Language Models (PaLM), bringing greater capabilities such as improved coding and reasoning, according to CEO Sundar Pichai.
Pichai told The New York Times' Hard Fork podcast that Bard users "will see progress over the course of next week."
- Google has been running Bard conversational AI on a lightweight version of its LaMDA AI language model.
- Pichai said it feels like Google "took a souped-up Civic and put it in a race with more powerful cars," referring to its competitors such as the GPT-4-powered Bing AI.
- Pichai said Google will deploy "even more capable models" over time, but "getting it right is very important to us."
- To the CEO, it was "important" not to release a "more capable model before we can fully make sure we can handle it well," he said.
- Bard is now in a limited preview for users to try out in the U.S. and U.K.
- On Friday, Google AI's Jack Krawczyk confirmed Pichai's pledge, tweeting that the company has "improved Bard's capabilities in math and logic by incorporating some of the advances we've developed in PaLM."
- PaLM also forms the basis for other newly announced Google Cloud services that cover new tools and APIs for developers.