{"id":8215,"date":"2023-02-16T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/16\/how-googlers-were-told-to-fix-responses-from-bard-its-ai-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:48:29","slug":"how-googlers-were-told-to-fix-responses-from-bard-its-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/16\/how-googlers-were-told-to-fix-responses-from-bard-its-ai-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"How Googlers were told to fix responses from Bard, its AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has asked its employees to test Bard<\/a> \u2013 Google\u2019s answer to ChatGPT \u2013 by rewriting answers or providing other forms of feedback.<\/p>\n

Googlers have received an email with a list of dos and dont\u2019s for fixing Bard\u2019s responses in an email from Prabhakar Raghavana, the senior vice president at Google who oversees Search. <\/p>\n

This followed a companywide email from CEO Sundar Pichai, who asked employees to spend two to four hours of their time helping improve Bard.<\/p>\n

Teaching Bard.<\/strong> Among the dos, Google employees were told to:<\/p>\n

Keep responses \u201cpolite, casual and approachable.\u201d <\/p>\n

Respond \u201cin first person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maintain an \u201cunopinionated, neutral tone.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for don\u2019ts:<\/p>\n

\u201cAvoid making presumptions based on race, nationality, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, political ideology, location, or similar categories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t describe Bard as a person, imply emotion, or claim to have human-like experiences.\u201d <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t try to re-write answers that offer \u201clegal, medical, financial advice\u201d or are hateful and abusive. (Googlers are instead told to give a \u201cthumbs down\u201d).<\/p>\n

Clearly, Google is thinking about YMYL issues in that last point. We\u2019ve already seen what happens when AI generates a poorly written AI article on a health topic<\/a> and it gets published by a brand.<\/p>\n

Why we care.<\/strong> As we\u2019ve seen in the early days \u201cBingGPT,\u201d there have been many positives and negatives<\/a>. Google is trying to recover from its introduction of Bard, which has been generally perceived as botched. The generative AI aspects of search continue to be a huge area of interest for search marketers as we wait to learn the impact on websites, how it changes search results, and whether this will alter user behavior.<\/p>\n

Read the CNBC story.<\/strong> Google asks employees to rewrite Bard\u2019s bad responses, says the A.I. \u2018learns best by example\u2019<\/a> by Jennifer Elias.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper:<\/p>\n

New Bing is mind-blowingly fast and better than I expected<\/a><\/p>\n

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Google has asked its employees to test Bard \u2013 Google\u2019s answer to ChatGPT \u2013 by rewriting answers or providing other forms of feedback. Googlers have received an email with a list of dos and dont\u2019s for fixing Bard\u2019s responses in an email from Prabhakar Raghavana, the senior vice president at Google who oversees Search. This followed a companywide email from CEO Sundar Pichai, who asked employees to spend two to four hours of their time helping improve Bard. Teaching Bard. Among the dos, Google employees were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}