After the timid launch of Bard, which was publicly announced in February and whose beta opened only in the United States and the United Kingdom at the end of March, We expect relevant news in this regard during Google I / O 2023, which will be held next week. Not surprisingly, at the beginning of the year everything indicated that it would be at the company’s developer event when it would show its plans in relation to artificial intelligence in response to ChatGPT. However, the agility shown by Microsoft with the new Bing set off all the alarm bells, and forced them to move their plans forward.
A few days ago we learned of the departure of Geoffry Hinton from Google, an eminence in the world of artificial intelligence, in order to be able to openly warn about the risks associated with AI, although he also made it clear that, In his opinion (and it is not just any opinion, since we are talking about a person who has resigned from a more than remarkable job), «Google has acted very responsiblywhich gives us an explanation of the speed with which the company is tackling the deployment of Bard. That, not to forget that the evaluations of the chatbot made by some employees of the company are not especially positive.
Now, with more or less reasons, and more or less praiseworthy, it is clear that Google has to hit the table, and that it has to do so as soon as possible. And given the proliferation of models and chatbots we’ve experienced in recent months, it seems clear that just offering one more chatbot is no longer enough. The key is to make it stand out from the rest, both in terms of functionality, reliability and, of course, also in integrations of the same.
In this regard, as we can read in 9to5Google, it seems that the search engine is going to play a very interesting trick, since Google is working on a Bard widget for the Google Pixel home screen. According to the information this medium has, said widget could be compatible with any Android device, but in its current state of development, it is configured to work exclusively on Google smartphones.
How can we interpret this? Next week several new smartphones from the company will be announced, including the long-awaited and finally confirmed Pixel Fold. Thus, and given that Bard is still in the preview phase (and it is more than likely that it will stay that way for a while, even if more access to it is allowed), we can think that the first deployment of this future widget It is used as an element that gives more added value to your devices.
However, it is clear that the company’s interest is that Bard be used by as many users as possible, especially since Bing no longer has a waiting list. Therefore, we can take it for granted that in the medium term this widget will end up reaching all Android users. The only thing left to know is when it will happen..
