Bard is such a funny name. I tried to, no pun intended, google it and it autocorrected to brad.
A bard is something along the lines of a "poet" or "musician".
More concisely, it's someone that's good with words.
Bard and new AI features in Search
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#112The 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...
It seems like a very reactionary move. ChatGPT went viral, and now they have to rush something to market to try and compete. So of course the product doesn't exist yet, but they've had enough time to put together a project plan and some mockups. It's not a great position to be in.
It's not rushed to market. It already existed for years.
I've tried to say this before elsewhere, but Google has had something internally that's competitive with ChatGPT already for years, under various names. They were just naturally reticent about letting it loose on the world. Esp after the Blake Lemoine incident.
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#113This is all fluff with very little substance, OpenAI wow'ed the whole world with ChatGPT and all Google can do is post a half-baked fluff piece that they're releasing something "soon"
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i don't think anybody knows how to monetize it. really it's kinda a public service, maybe these models should be run that way?
Just picture monetizing it via embedding slant onto the answers it provides like how Alexa suggest purchases but in a way that users can barely just notice... Or purchasing "market share space" on it in the same way that companies buy shelf space on supermarkets to place their products in...
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#115The 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...
It seems like a very reactionary move. ChatGPT went viral, and now they have to rush something to market to try and compete. So of course the product doesn't exist yet, but they've had enough time to put together a project plan and some mockups. It's not a great position to be in.
as someone who did nlp research at Google, Google had a ChatGPT level chatbot 3 years ago and did nothing with it
Re: Bard and new AI features in Search
#116The 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 informa…
Wow, thank you for that link. Now I have a new bookmarklet...
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Google was already next when they missed the social media boat. That said, Microsoft is still the second most valuable company in the world a decade after missing out on mobile, so it doesn't really seem like a big deal.
I certainly didn't kill Microsoft, but it's tens of billions of dollars they didn't get. It's significant, even at Microsoft's scale.
There is also opportunity cost though. Maybe if they succeeded in mobile then they would have missed Teams. Its hard to say that the side effects from missing that wave were exclusively negative.
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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.
Would you consider Google to be mid-journey?
Sure, I think that's a fair characterization. They have AI-accelerated hardware in client and server-side devices now, as well as a decent catalog of AI-powered demos and features.
They're not exactly a leading force in the AI world, but they're dedicated to making the pilgrimage all the same.
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#119This is very good news for us as consumers. We don't want anyone of the players to dominate this field, and we want the service to be as cheap as possible, ideally free.
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i don't think anybody knows how to monetize it. really it's kinda a public service, maybe these models should be run that way?
Monetization seems pretty straight forward. User: What is the most durable shoe? AI: Some of the most durable shoes are ... Here are some affiliate links where you can buy these durable shoes...
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