Google’s Pandu Nayak Shares His Roadmap For Mum And How It Can Help The Company Handle More Complex Queries

In a chat with Search Engine Land, Pandu Nayak, VP of search at Google, outlined how MUM might fundamentally change the way users interact with its search engine, the roadmap for MUM as well as what Google is doing to ensure that the technology is applied responsibly.

Some of the points discussed:

• MUM is trained simultaneously across 75 languages so MUM’s applications can be more easily transferred to more languages.
• MUM is multimodal, meaning that its capabilities aren’t limited to text(unlike BERT), it can also use video and images as inputs.
• over the next few months, we’re going to see many, many teams within search using MUM to improve whatever tasks they were doing to help search, and the COVID vaccine example is a really good example of that
• and more