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Re: Google Bard waitlist

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post #109

"We're starting to start the beginning of letting people try so they can now apply to our waitlist so they can be emailed that it's their turn to try Bard, the AI experiment."

Can I be part of the delegation that will be discussing the formation of a committee to institute the process of allowing people to sign up to be waitlisted for the consideration for the opportunity to potentially begin to start seeing how to use Bard?

Kafka is rolling in his grave

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking as someone who had to decide how to distribute anonymous work, language is extremely difficult to track as even if the system language is set to English, comprehension and literacy are not necessarily at the level you need for the data you get back to be useful. It is much more effective to select for countries in the 95th percentile of the English Proficiency Index.

Right, but due to migration, this is also a problem within regions where a language is the primary language. Any connection you draw between native language and region is tenuous at best.

Migration doesn't impact this since the English Proficiency Index is updated to account for it.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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post #126

These limited closed betas seem to really kill hype on a lot of their products, which leads to them not having a lot of use, then google killing them...

To be fair, the beta, invite-only status of GMail was, at the time, the definition of Internet Cool.

The big difference is that beta gmail could communicate with email from other providers. So it was exclusive but not really closed - you had a rare domain name, a huge inbox and the ability to send other people invites - that was pretty cool for 2005.

That's nothing like the Google+ launch - making that a closed beta was death from the start because you could only interact with the few other people in the closed beta.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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It's at https://bard.google.com - I tried to join the waitlist but this is yet another Google service where Google Workspaces accounts simply don't work. Back to GPT-4 then!

It looks like it also uses a 7th design of the accounts popdown, and only allows one google account. Literally no one at Google understands how accounts work: https://grumpy.website/post/0PU1U2r3v (this was 5 years ago, nothing has changed)

Luckily https://bard.google.com/u/1 works to use the 2nd logged in Google Account.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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post #126

These limited closed betas seem to really kill hype on a lot of their products, which leads to them not having a lot of use, then google killing them...

To be fair, the beta, invite-only status of GMail was, at the time, the definition of Internet Cool.

GMail was a huge leap over existing web mail providers. Where others might give you tens of megabytes, GMail started with a gig and showed a ticker for its growth on the log in page. They offered keeping emails forever and making them searchable. People were willing to wait.
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