May 26, 2021 05:04 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22454513/google-future-of-search-conversation-ai-mum-lamda
Google isnt ready to turn search into a conversation
The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google.
It’s a pitch the company has been making for years, and it was the centerpiece of last week’s I/O developer conference. There, the company demoed two “groundbreaking” AI systems — LaMDA and MUM — that it hopes, one day, to integrate into all its products. To show off its potential, Google had LaMDA speak as the dwarf planet Pluto, answering questions about the celestial body’s environment and its flyby from the New Horizons probe.
As this tech is adopted, users will be able to “talk to Google”: using natural language to retrieve information from the web or their personal archives of messages, calendar...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22454513/google-future-of-search-conversation-ai-mum-lamda
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