It's hard to believe what a top Google exec tells Bard users to do to the AI chatbot's responses (UPDATE)

UPDATE: Google has reached out to note that in this article, Bard, which is a LLM (large language model)-powered chat experience is not related to the generative chat experience that the company is experimenting with in Search. Bard is NOT integrated in Search which actually is clear when you use the AI in Search and it says at the top that generative AI is experimental.

The AI used in Search is actually Search Generative Experience (SGE) which is different from the LLM-powered Bard. SGE has been "fine-tuned" to be help with tasks that users would use Search for including the identification of high-quality search results. As Google writes, "SGE is rooted in our core Search ranking systems to deliver helpful and reliable results."

The reason for integrating ChatGPT with Bing and Google's SGE with the Google Search app is to enhance the responses people get from their queries. Some believe that AI will eventually replace search engines completely. If you think that sounds like some pie-in-the-sky fantasy, did anyone ever think that the Yahoo search engine was going to be replaced by Google?

Speaking on the BBC television program Today,  Google's U.K. chief  Debbie Weinstein stated that Bard should be considered an experiment that works best when collaborating to solve a problem or to help with the creation of new ideas. That is probably why Google is using SGE for Search instead of Bard. 

The executive told the U.K. television audience that because Bard, like other generative AI chatbots is prone to hallucinations, users should Google the chatbot's responses to make sure that the information it is giving out is legitimate. As Weinstein said, "We're encouraging people to actually use Google as the search engine to actually reference information they found." To make that easy to do, Bard does include a a "Google it" button that will quickly allow a user to double check a response from the chatbot.

Earlier this year when everyone was afraid that their job would be taken over by an AI chatbot, Google was concerned that it would lose the $3 billion it receives annually to provide Google Search on Galaxy devices; rumors swirled about Samsung switching to Bing and its integrated ChatGPT feature. And Google was also worried that it would lose the estimated $20 billion it receives from Apple every year for providing it with Google Search. Just a couple of months ago, Samsung decided to keep Google as its default search app.