Google asks employees to help Bard get the answers right, says AI ‘learns best by example’

“This is exciting technology but still in its early days,” Raghavan wrote. “We feel a great responsibility to get it right, and your participation in the dogfood will help accelerate the model’s training and test its load capacity (Not to mention, trying out Bard is actually quite fun!).”

Earlier, CEO Sundar Pichai had asked employees to spend two to four hours of their time on Bard, acknowledging that “this will be a long journey for everyone, across the field.”

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At the top of the do’s and don’ts section, Google provides guidance for what to consider “before teaching Bard.”

Under do’s, employees have been asked to keep responses “polite, casual and approachable.” The responses should be “in first person,” and maintain an “unopinionated, neutral tone”, it says.

For don’ts, employees are told not to stereotype and to “avoid making presumptions based on race, nationality, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, political ideology, location or similar categories.”  Also, “don’t describe Bard as a person, imply emotion, or claim to have human-like experiences,” the document says.

Google says “keep it safe,” and instructs employees to give a “thumbs down” to answers that offer “legal, medical, financial advice” or are hateful and abusive.

To incentivise people in the organisation to test Bard and provide feedback, Raghavan said contributors will earn a “Moma badge,” which appears on internal employee profiles.

The top 10 rewrite contributors from the Knowledge and Information organisation, which Raghavan oversees, will be invited to a listening session where they can “share their feedback live” with Raghavan and people working on Bard.

“A wholehearted thank you to the teams working hard on this behind the scenes,” Raghavan wrote.