I'm not sure if that's the case or not. In 2017 I could ask Google which episode of the Futurama was the one where the save the planet from a trash ball, and i

I'm not sure if that's the case or not. In 2017 I could ask Google which episode of the Futurama was the one where the save the planet from a trash ball, and it could answer the question in natural language. I suspect that Google X has had these, and other capabilities for a while even if they've never been shipped in any specific product. Or how about Duplex, where Google could call a restaurant to make a reservation, including negotiating times? That was also like 2017-2018. These are only the public, polished, productized ideas. Google has bard, a response to chat gpt, probably only because they didn't realize that people actually wanted a chatbot. I think it was a product failure. How quickly they responded with something similar I think shows you this tech exists inside Google already. Remember, OpenAI was created in part to help make AI accessible to people outside of Google/Microsoft. Who knows what's going on behind closed doors.