I was able to see LaMDA in action about 1.5 years ago. It was just as awe-inducing as ChatGPT. Google is not behind in this race, they're simply slower to roll out new functionality. And maybe rightly so? Some of the things I saw ChatGPT say would have been multi-day international bad headlines for Google, if a Google AI had said them instead of an upstart startup.
Bard and new AI features in Search
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#162This 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.
It will essentially still be locked away by an oligopoly that has little distinction among the participants. The influence on society held by that oligopoly will significantly surpass the current concerns of social media.
For much more in depth take, I wrote recently about that here. https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
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#163I asked chatGPT "will Meta come up with an accelerated AI journey and what direction will it have?"
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#164"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 ...
In recent years I have to use quotes much more aggressively and use verbatim search almost all the time. Google is getting less and less helpful.
Do quotation marks do anything for you?
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#165Is this like chatGPT?
seems like Bard will be similar, however judging by its omission from being cited as an example, help with coding won't live up to that of chatGPT.
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#166The 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's corporate-speak for 'we're not letting the threat going unanswered' without actually delivering anything yet. It's mostly a placeholder for shareholders and especially the media to move the story away from 'Google's in trouble'
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#167But can it code though?
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#168Lotus 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 fo…
Microsoft feels like an outlier on this list. They are thriving right now. Also, there are still many categories of things that ChatGPT-like bots can't help with yet, such as shopping. I think we're still very early in this cycle. That doesn't mean Google will succeed, but it feels premature to be writing their obituary.
Windows, Office, and more recently Azure are big enough to make these failures survivable and give Microsoft more chances, but IE and Windows Mobile are textbook examples of complacency.
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#169The 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...
Exactly, he announced that they are doing a thing. With a very ambiguous screenshot of the thing and zero evidence of just how good the thing is. And no link to the actual thing.
So, the thing doesn't exist yet in a form that is concrete or demoable. And it definitely isn't ready for users. Which is the same thing really. Also there's no timeline of the thing actually getting there either. So, there's nothing here really.
Why is Sundar Pichai still in charge of this company? Months of excitement around chat gpt and then the best he came up with is this?! This reads to me like "The dog ate my homework, sorry. I have nothing of substance to announce today. Or tomorrow. Or any time soon.".
Also, Bard. Really?! Cringeworthy doesn't begin to describe how bad that is as a brand name. It' sounds like Bad spelled wrong.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because there was no competition and they were the first movers.
Hotmail preceded gmail by most of a decade.
I had a Hotmail account for about a year in 2000 or so. It had a 10 MB inbox and worked quite well. I got a bit of spam, but it was obvious and manageable.
My girlfriend got a GMail invite from a friend and sent me an invite. It was huge. A 1 GB inbox, built-in Google search of your email, and incredible spam filtering.
They marketed it something like "With GMail, you don't have to delete your emails. Just search . . .". Really killer features compared to their competitors.
Later on, they added automatic email thread grouping which made using Outlook for work a chore until it got a similar feature.