I/O 2023, however, promises to be different. There’s a sense of anticipation, which has probably never been there for an I/O event. I/O is about Google showing its software capability and it will also happen in 2023 but the main work will be around Artificial Intelligence. We list five reasons I/O 2023 will be one of the most important events for Google
time to show who’s the sheriff
Over the past few months, the impression has slowly built up that Google is late to the AI party. OpenAI Together Microsoft stole march with chatgpt, Bing which has become a topic of discussion. But this is Google—a company that pivoted to AI and machine learning long ago. However, all the action was happening on the backend. The curtains have been drawn and the stage has been set for Google to show that it means serious business. I/O is given to the company and its CEO, Sundar Pichai. The Google CEO said that AI is the most profound technology that humanity will ever work on. “I’ve always felt that way for a while. I think it will capture the essence of what humanity is. And so it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” he told The New York Times in April 2023.
Whose AI is it anyway?
One of the reasons Google hasn’t gone full throttle is that as a company it has always been vocal about using AI responsibly. Pichai said that a few years ago there was nothing stopping Google from bringing AI into the mainstream. “We need not only to ask ‘What can we do?’ But ‘what should we do?'” has been the company’s mantra. “Whether it’s applying AI to fundamentally transform our own products or applying these powerful tools to others,” Pichai said in a blog in February. We will continue to innovate and be responsible in our approach.” Google’s view has been to share AI innovations with others, but perhaps this may change in some way sooner or later.
It’s bard-y time for Google
By February 2023, ChatGPT had gone beyond just being the talk of the town. It had raised millions of users and billions of dollars. The latter is due to Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI. It was then that Google first introduced Bard, the supposed answer to ChatGPT. “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, and creativity of our large language model. It draws information from across the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses,” Pichai said in the introduction. forage for the world.
Bard’s immediate challenge will ultimately be comparisons to ChatGPT. Google is testing it with a select few users and has not received good reports. I/O 2023 will give Google an opportunity to talk more about Bard and the improvements it has made.
change is coming in search
For years — or maybe decades — Google has been synonymous with search. It’s also the company’s bread and butter when it comes to revenue. Last year, the company generated $162 billion in revenue from its search and advertising business. There is a lot of talk about Google redefining how search works and making it more AI-driven and planning to take a different approach. It will be interesting to see what Google might have in store for search at I/O 2023.