Breaking down Bard with Google’s Jack Krawczyk | E1752
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Today's Show:
Jack Krawczyk, the head Google’s Bard team, chats with Jason about Bard’s capabilities and Google’s plan for monetization. Following a few demonstrations of the AI chatbot (43:32), Jason wraps the episode with some thoughts on the series finale of HBO’s Succession (01:01:45)
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Time stamps:
(00:00) Jack Krawczyk joins Jason
(4:58) Discussing the responsible release of products
(7:43) The delicate balance of choosing to release or hold
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(11:57) Addressing concerns about the usage of creators' content
(13:42) Unpacking the process of vetting new features and the purpose of Google's Red Team
(18:39) Integrating tools and features into the framework of Bard
(20:51) Upholding core values in the incorporation of tools
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(25:23) The impact of Bard's coding capabilities on developers
(29:36) Gauging the distance from non-developers writing meaningful code
(31:11) The business model behind Google Bard
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(36:44) The potential paths ahead
(39:30) Google's vision for plugins and opportunities for startups
(43:32) Jack demos Google Bard
(55:52) Reflecting on the pace of AI
(01:01:45) Breaking down HBO's Succession and why it's a must-watch
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like I could be a coder again, you know, like go back to like the 80s and 90s when I was doing Pascal and basic |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm like, well, why can't I do Python coding? It doesn't seem that hard. It's when you have this assistant, you know |
| 0:10.5 | It's it's removing friction to creativity. It's amazing. It's magical |
| 0:14.8 | And it's a time to be bold and to be responsible, right? Like you talk about some of them |
| 0:19.2 | You can release things to generate that speed of insight |
| 0:23.2 | Yeah, but you can't generate that speed of insight at the expense of trust |
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| 1:12.2 | All right, everybody welcome back to the show. We're really really delighted to have our next guest on |
| 1:17.7 | Everybody knows my lord |
| 1:20.6 | AI is moving at an absurd pace and I said, you know chat GPT really fascinating |
| 1:26.5 | But then I started playing with this Google Bard and I was like, holy cow |
| 1:30.3 | Google's got some great product and then they started dropping product boom boom boom |
| 1:35.1 | lots of product |
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