{"id":158162,"date":"2023-02-16T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/googles-ceo-tells-staff-to-spend-hours-working-out-bard-ai-kinks"},"modified":"2023-02-16T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:26:02","slug":"googles-ceo-tells-staff-to-spend-hours-working-out-bard-ai-kinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/googles-ceo-tells-staff-to-spend-hours-working-out-bard-ai-kinks","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s CEO Tells Staff to Spend Hours Working Out \u2018Bard\u2019 AI Kinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-ceo-tells-staff-to-spend-hours-working-out-bard-ai-kinks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-bard-chatbot-googlers-sundar-pichai-2023-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a> reported based on a leaked company-wide email that Google is asking all of its employees to take two to four hours of their day to test Google\u2019s \u201cBard\u201d AI, the same system the company plans to integrate into its chat function. It\u2019s unclear if all Googlers over the world have received the same ask. The company recently <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/google-layoffs-12000-workers-largest-cuts-history-1850010658\">announced 12,000 job cuts<\/a> to its global workforce, but Google, without its parent company Alphabet, still employs over 170,000 around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In that memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he would \u201cappreciate\u201d if all staff \u201ccontributed in a deeper way\u201d and take two to four hours to pressure test Bard. Anybody who\u2019s ever read a \u201csuggestion\u201d email from their boss knows that it\u2019s more of a mandate than anything else. It\u2019s unclear based on the email text if the two-to-four hour suggestion would be asked of them every day or spread over a longer period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider reported based on a leaked company-wide email that Google is asking all of its employees to take two to four hours of their day to test Google\u2019s \u201cBard\u201d AI, the same system the company plans to integrate into its chat function. It\u2019s unclear if all Googlers over the world have received the same [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}