Google, considered by many to be the world’s top search engine, recently announced plans to bring AI into its search results. The company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, told The Wall Street Journal that the move would make artificially intelligent chat available to the billions of people who use Google Search’s services every day.
This move would see Google opening up access to their AI chatbot – Bard – that functions similarly to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This essentially gives users the ability to ask follow-up questions to their searches, as well as submit more complex queries to the search engine. Currently, Bard is a separate entity to Google Search, with its own website and waitlist function.
This announcement comes after the success of ChatGPT, an AI system developed late last year and estimated to have 100 million active users in January. This in turn prompted other companies to develop their own AI-backed search engines, including Microsoft’s new Bing search engine.
Sundar Pichai did not discuss when AI features would be available on Google Search, but it is apparent that Google hopes to make their AI-powered search more accessible and bring more value to those who use it.
Google is a leading technology company known for its innovative and industry-changing products, such as its popular web browser, Google Chrome. The company has broadened its scope significantly in recent years with the acquisition of other internet staples and the development of their own technologies such as Google Home, Google Drive and Google Maps.
Sundar Pichai is the Chief Executive Officer of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Pichai joined Google in 2004 as a product manager and has since stepped into larger roles within the company. His key accomplishments include the introduction of Google Chrome and Android, as well as the development of Google’s apps and services.
