Reactions to todays Google/AI Bard Event

Nicely done, worth taking a look, should still be available om the Google Youtube site.

Here my very early impressions.  Based on building systems that did this.

Not too much was specifically said about Bard, except that it would handle chat interactions with their language system.  Just like today you can ask Google any question and it looks for direct and partial matches.   Often very useful, but sometimes irrelevant to what you want.    Usually less useful as your question is more complex.  Cannot usually pin together knowledge from multiple tries.  Will Bard do better at that?  

Also, how can you determine the source of information?   Hint was there would be some sort of button to push to get sources.  Often that is very useful to determine your trust in a result.   How about a way to measure the risk of a result?  Are you sure you want to do that?   Have Legal involved?   Had the need for that too.  Also does the provider of information get an indication that their info was used, giving them incentive to provide more?   Had that problem with internal Company wikis.   

Mapping updates were interesting, for example the ability to have .immersive view. linked to maps.  So you could get deep local understanding of a view, to improve navigation in a a city.    How about a historical view?  Had the cause to use that for city planning immersion.  

Also linked to maps an 'Indoor Live View', which  let you look at internal design,  so a company could provide precise internal navigation for say retail spaces.   It could be as detail as needed.  We experimented with the idea in grocery type designs, even adding virtual ads that could be updated as wanted.  

Further,  any kind of system that deals with language generation needs to consider context.  Language understanding and usage is important.    Who will be using the results?  Children, New employees, Chemical Engineers?  Trainers or trainees?    Also studied this in Wiki applications.   

Also, have examples where such  a system refuses to generate a particular result,   because there is some (imagined?)  corporate problem with it.  (Political, Operational? )  Who gets to decide that we wont go there?  Who owns the output.  The User? Organization? Google?   Who endorses the answer?    As you start to make these things very universally used, these issues will come up.     Will there be a personal data issue?    Likely.  Should the results always be stored in a memory for later reuse?    - FAD