{"id":163632,"date":"2023-05-10T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/google-needs-to-stop-throwing-good-money-after-bard"},"modified":"2023-05-10T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:23:37","slug":"google-needs-to-stop-throwing-good-money-after-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/google-needs-to-stop-throwing-good-money-after-bard","title":{"rendered":"Google needs to stop throwing good money after Bard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-needs-to-stop-throwing-good-money-after-bard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At its I\/O developer conference, the search giant needs to rethink its AI strategy if it wants to catch Microsoft. The missing element? Experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Google has had a rough six months. Since ChatGPT launched last November \u2014 followed by the new Bing in February and GPT-4 in March \u2014 the company has failed to establish its AI credentials. Its own offering, the \u201cexperimental\u201d chatbot Bard, compares poorly to rivals, and insider reports have portrayed a company in panic and disarray. Today, at its annual I\/O conference, the company needs to convince the public (and shareholders) that it has a meaningful response. But to do that, it needs a new playbook.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>AI outputs are increasingly defining the cultural moment \u2014 just not Google\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its I\/O developer conference, the search giant needs to rethink its AI strategy if it wants to catch Microsoft. The missing element? Experimentation. Google has had a rough six months. Since ChatGPT launched last November \u2014 followed by the new Bing in February and GPT-4 in March \u2014 the company has failed to establish [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163632","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}