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Re: Google Bard waitlist

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Post by Vt71fcAqt7 »

tauntz wrote: post #158

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…

Non-US countries like to fine US tech companies and create regulations ect. which we are already seeing in the EU wrt AI. So it makes sense why they don't want to be involved in that kind of thing before there is even a real product. That is, there is no upside for them aside from market share, which I agree is important but does not alone explain Google's product failures, about which much has already been written.

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Post by PedroBatista »

superfrank wrote: post #174
PedroBatista wrote: post #157

"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!" Can't wait to ask "Bard" what's the rationale to "not support" a service like this based on my country.. These "global companies" are so global regarding their revenue and tax schemes, but when something is different than the "business as usual" they turn into hyper local shops. It's just an observation, I'm not really that mad and desperate to try their "…

Not sure where you are, but I always assume that means, "We're doing something that some might consider sketchy and don't want to dedicate resources to figuring out if it's legal outside the US".

It's usually by cultural proximity/who are your cousins more than a legal thing. It usually goes by "US,Canada,UK most times Australia, then NZ when they remember, then Ireland and let's start to deal with the nordics and Germany.."

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Post by realPubkey »

tauntz wrote: post #158

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…

Clubhouse was even more stupid by launching iOS only which killed themself.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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Post by pwb25 »

rospaya wrote: post #173
pwb25 wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It never cease to amaze me how a software that is just inputs and outputs, can not be "available" in some country if you sell something, then sure goods might have laws. but just text ? lol

Might be localization, PR, scaling, not enough capacity for the new users. I hate it but I can imagine it.

just use english language then?

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Post by metafates »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #178
tauntz wrote: post #158

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…

:)) why so salty? I am salty too, ngl but it is: their product, their choice. There could be a hundred reasons why they released it like this. ChatGPT was also not available world wide when it launched.

Chatgpt is still unavailable worldwide. And will never be, I guess

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Post by tedivm »

sourcecodeplz wrote: post #178
tauntz wrote: post #158

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…

:)) why so salty? I am salty too, ngl but it is: their product, their choice. There could be a hundred reasons why they released it like this. ChatGPT was also not available world wide when it launched.

This idea that corporate criticism is off limits simply because the corporation has the legal right to make product decisions is one of the weirdest things I regularly see. No one is claiming that they don't have a legal right to do this. Yeah, it's their product and their choice.

But you're on a website with founders and tech workers. Part of what we do here is talk about why things work, why they don't, and ways to improve. There's nothing wrong with criticizing our industry or pointing out when one of the big companies regularly shoots itself in the foot.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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Post by pwb25 »

impulser_ wrote: post #176
pwb25 wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It never cease to amaze me how a software that is just inputs and outputs, can not be "available" in some country if you sell something, then sure goods might have laws. but just text ? lol

You're under estimating the cost to run these models at scale. This isn't "just text"

how is a local limitation solving anything of this other than on paper though? If so, they should if something start in a small country...

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Post by dna_polymerase »

tacker2000 wrote: post #116

Hilarious. Big announcement and yet nobody in this thread has been able to register, nobody is giving any first hand account of using it. Whats the point of this big announcement then? Google is such a caricature of corporatism and blunders, it’s just sad.

It really is remarkable. Didn't read a single account of an actual user, only people commemorating the times Google was able to deliver quality software and how they are absolutely dead.

This is their lifeline in a potential Bing + ChatGPT world, this product right here is supposed to save them from actual competition, and yet they act like complete and utter idiots.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #191
tauntz wrote: post #158

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…

Non-US countries like to fine US tech companies and create regulations ect. which we are already seeing in the EU wrt AI. So it makes sense why they don't want to be involved in that kind of thing before there is even a real product. That is, there is no upside for them aside from market share, which I agree is important but does not alone explain Google's product failures, about which much has already been written.

Sure.

Meanwhile ChatGPT is used everywhere in France, and it's now synonymous with AI for most people in Europe.

Game over.

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Post by swe_dima »

tauntz wrote: post #158

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Sigh. Google never learns. By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in. It's the same playbook with every US-only launch: 1. get everybody hyped up 2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a "launch" or "open beta" or whatever 3.…

same story with Google One, they say "this feature is now available worldwide", but somehow worldwide doesn't include my country.
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