At the start of 2024, Google would like to know users’ expectations regarding Bard, its conversational AI. To find out, the development teams launched a small survey on Reddit and X.
As we have just started the year 2024, Google is curious to know users’ expectations regarding Bard, its conversational AI launched in France in July 2023.
To do this, the Bard development team decided to publish a post along these lines on Reddit: “We would like to know what changes and new features you would like to see on Bard in 2024,” writes Chris Gorgolewski, Bard product manager. In total, the Mountain View firm obtained more than 200 returns.
User expectations with Bard in 2024
From what we remember, many users are asking the launch of a dedicated application for Bard on Android and iOS. At the time of writing, this project is not yet in the pipeline and the AI should simply be implemented in the Google Assistant (Assistant With Bard) on both OSes. On Android, this method will allow you to quickly benefit from AI, since as a reminder, you can access the Google Assistant by long-pressing the Power button on your device.
On iOS, however, Assistant with Bard cannot appear as an overlay. We could therefore possibly expect an update of the Google Assistant application on Apple’s OS to integrate this functionality.
The top 5 requests for Bard going into 2024… what’s your #5?
1) More control over hallucination: guide for when to explore possibilities, create new information vs responsibly summarize existing information 🧭
2) Expanded multimodality: you’re going to love more Gemini…
— Jack Krawczyk (@JackK) December 30, 2023
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More memory and Gemini integration
In the rest of the requests, users also claim a persistent memory on Bard. As Internet users point out, the AI tends to lose track of requests made and information shared by users, particularly during long sessions. “Write several chapters of a book. After a few chapters, Bard seems to forget some key plot points and character traits introduced at the beginning of the book. takes a user as an example.
We already know that Bard will soon be equipped with a feature called Memory. Thanks to it, the AI is able to memorize certain information relating to the user. This will allow him to further personalize the responses obtained, according to each person’s preferences. Well the integration of Gemini, Google’s latest artificial intelligence, has come back to the table.
On this point, you will simply have to be patient. Indeed, Gemini Ultra will soon arrive in Bard in a new version entitled Bard Advanced. “Gemini Ultra is our largest and most capable model, designed for highly complex tasks and designed to quickly understand and act on different types of information, including text, images, audio, video and code” , Google wrote.