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Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#11
Time will tell (a few weeks, according to the article) if it's any good, as that's when it will be released to the public.

However, an interesting piece of info was

> It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.

which seems like it will possibly be able to use some kind of external repository of information, instead of needing to be retrained? Very curious about that.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#13
The blog post is an example of why when you go through a number of edits and additions from various internal groups, marketing, legal, compliance etc. you end up with a message that's a lot of words but not a lot of information for any key audience.

I went through the article 3 times thinking I missed the link to try out Bard, get some sense of timeline, roll-out plan...nothing. Come on Google...

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#14
post #5

It's challenging to take a CEO seriously who lacks enough self-awareness to un-ironically use the term "journey". Similarly, just open it up for everyone to use, I'm using ChatGPT now, ship your product, don't just write a blog post about it.

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Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#15
post #5

It's challenging to take a CEO seriously who lacks enough self-awareness to un-ironically use the term "journey". Similarly, just open it up for everyone to use, I'm using ChatGPT now, ship your product, don't just write a blog post about it.

ChatGPT didn't just "exist" one day. OpenAI made a half-dozen models before getting to GPT-3, and even had demos like Talk to Transformer freely available for anyone to play with long before ChatGPT was in development.

Just because you didn't hear about it until the news got there doesn't mean it's not a journey.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#16

In a classic PM fashion, Sundar couldn't resist taking all the credit for this launch.

Many in the investment community are touting ChatGPT as a Google-killer. I don't think it's the case, but I do think the expectation is that Sundar will drop everything to personally treat it like an existential threat. If it were anyone other than Sundar it would appear that he isn't treating it seriously enough.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#19

> We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback Interesting; I wonder if their use of the "lightweight" model will make it less capable than ChatGPT.

Given that Google/DeepMind is one of the few labs actually trying to make smaller models that are just as performant (e.g. Chinchilla: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15556.pdf ), I'm optimistic.
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