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If you have to ask, you're not invited.
We know how well that worked out for Google+
It worked for gmail. Maybe some people are too young to remember it was invite-only for years.
Bard and new AI features in Search
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#52Let the API wars begin. Microsoft seems to have positioned itself to compete with Google.
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#53"But increasingly, people are turning to Google for deeper insights and understanding" I'm just trying to just get relevant results for my query man ...
My standard habbit when I don't find what I want is to append site:reddit.com site:news.ycombinator.com site:github.com site:stackoverflow.com. Mostly I get what I wanted!
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#54> 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. Seems odd to release something worse than the competition. Is there a reason why google wouldn't just come out with the best the have? Are they afraid this will eat into their ad revenue if people no longer need…
> Seems odd to release something worse than the competition.
This isn't actually what it says? It's saying that it's a smaller model version of Lamda, there's no comparison to GPT-3.
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#55The 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...
Got you: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://blog.google/technol...
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, has announced the release of Bard, an experimental conversational AI service powered by Google's Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of Google's large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard is initially being released with a lightweight model version of LaMDA, which requires significantly less computing power and will allow for more feedback. Google is also working to bring its latest AI advancements into its products, starting with Search, and will soon be onboarding individual developers, creators and enterprises to try its Generative Language API. Google is committed to developing AI responsibly and will continue to be bold with innovation and responsible in its approach.Re: Bard and new AI features in Search
#56People are complaining that it's not available yet. I'd guess they have something that could be pretty useful right now. But they need to make sure it doesn't cause them embarrassment by saying racist/sexist/etc things.
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#57The 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...
There is nothing concrete available today because Google is scrambling to get ahead of a major announcement from Microsoft on integrating GPT into Bing. Internal sources from MS are saying it might be the first we see of GPT-4.
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#59Won’t be long before ads start making their way into answers “you want to know how to make popcorn? Try this amazing air frier from company X!”. The internet is enough of a billboard as it is.
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#60Lotus 123, Borland and Wordperfect were at the top of the software world. They failed to make the transition to GUIs/Windows.
Microsoft missed the arrival of the web. Microsoft also missed the mobile revolution and ended up with zero mobile operating system market share.
Internet Explorer, having vanquished Netscape, declared "job done" and stopped developing the web browser further, only to be cast to irrelevance for its failure to advance and innovate. Much like Google search.
Kodak, Yahoo, Commodore, MySpace etc etc etc all missed the critical technology change that left their business behind.
Despite seeing the oncoming train, Google may be too arrogant, too internally political, too controlled by it's vast river of web advertising gold, to be willing or able to make the changes needed.
And it may be that Google simply cannot transition it's search over to becoming top dog in AI information seeking - it's possible that AI interfaces aren't a "winner take all" market like search is. If that turns out to be true then Google won't be finished but it will be diminished.
ChatGPT brings a laser focus that Google simply cannot.
It's possible Google's time has passed.
I remember distinctly when Google arrived how instantly old and out of date Altavista suddenly looked - that's how Google search looks now.