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Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by nemo44x »

From the NYT:

>This means the chatbot often gets facts wrong and sometimes makes up information without warning

Certainly this is the pot calling the kettle black.

> And it dovetails with Google’s index of all websites, so that it can instantly gain access to the latest information posted to the internet.

Is this true? If so then this would be a big advantage of Bard as it would be realtime-ish. I don't believe this to be true.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by rcarmo »

sho_hn wrote: post #27
rcarmo wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN seldom bands together to do anything but quip at things, or discuss how it should have been done better. Oh, wait.

More exciting software projects get started on 4chan than Hacker News.

I'll take "exciting" in technical terms rather than "exciting" in legally-challenging, raging mob ones...

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by ZeroCool2u »

I received an early access email yesterday via the Google Pixel program, but the page just seems to break when I load it. I get a bunch of 404's in the developer console and the page apologizes for being broken.

Edit: Well I've gotten in now. I think it's definitely not as good as ChatGPT right now. It seems to have a really hard time referring back to previous moments in the chat for context. A lot of its responses are simply not exactly what I asked for either. Also, super annoyed it doesn't include a dark mode by default.

Edit 2: It only saves your prompts, you can't access your chat history. This seems like a pretty huge downside.

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Post by dangond »

endisneigh wrote: post #60

It's interesting, but if you look at the history of technology, it's rarely the 1st mover that wins. I'm not sure if Bard will be the "winner" (or if there will even be a single canonical winner), but the idea that you can be "late" to this when LLMs are just getting started is kind of funny. Given that most people don't read NYTs, let alone have heard of OpenAI or ChatGPT, this will mark the first true exposure to l…

It's definitely still early in the market, people are mostly still experimenting with LLMs rather than being committed to any specific provider. Long-term it won't matter if Google is a few weeks or months behind OpenAI if they can make a successful competitor.

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Post by gmuslera »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #28
gajus wrote: post #7

Anyone know what is the origin of the name Bard? Every time I see it I think "barf"

I just can't imagine a less inspiring name. It feels like Bard was a joke, internal name. When OpenAI came out with their stuff, Google decided to rush this to market with little thought given to the branding.

Like Microsoft's Copilot? It may be better than putting a specific use case as name.

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Post by cschmidt »

ahub wrote: post #78

The page is utterly undescriptive on what google bard is. Given the hype about Large Language Models recently I assume it's yet again a chatbot of sorts ? Can anyone here enlight us ?

It is their version of ChatGPT: https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...
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