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Re: Google Bard waitlist

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> This Google Account isn’t supported > Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher/ Google Apps/GSuite/Google Workspace user.

Same here, and the account switcher doesn't work.

I had to go back to Google's homepage and switch accounts there

Agree, very frustrating.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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The comments here are very interesting.

I see very little about the actual performance of bard (and the few comments that do mention that it's worse than chatgpt because it uses a much smaller model to reduce inference costs).

Instead most comments are either about country/workspace account restrictions, googles past history with sunsetting products, or their general lack of product releases in the ml space.

Incredible how much they've fallen from grace. Their image has suffered so much that people just don't care anymore.

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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The comments here are very interesting. I see very little about the actual performance of bard (and the few comments that do mention that it's worse than chatgpt because it uses a much smaller model to reduce inference costs). Instead most comments are either about country/workspace account restrictions, googles past history with sunsetting products, or their general lack of product releases in the ml space. Incredib…

This is a very specific HN sentiment. Not sure if the same sentiment is shared by general public

Re: Google Bard waitlist

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The comments here are very interesting. I see very little about the actual performance of bard (and the few comments that do mention that it's worse than chatgpt because it uses a much smaller model to reduce inference costs). Instead most comments are either about country/workspace account restrictions, googles past history with sunsetting products, or their general lack of product releases in the ml space. Incredib…

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Re: Google Bard waitlist

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> 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.…

Not trying to be rude, but when you're a company the size of Google - that's had MASSIVE lawsuits - you can't just willy-nilly release products globally.

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> That would be rather embarrassing for Google. Why? They have no idea how many users they will get. If they buy A100s on the assumption they will get 50M daily active users they run the risk of wasting an enormous amount of money if they get 1M users instead. And its not like these GPUs grow on trees. Clearly MSFT is struggling to set up compute fast enough, see the decreasing rate limits on GPT-4.

So you're saying they might be incompetent enough for their estimation to be off by 50x? You're also saying Google, _a cloud computing provider selling access to A100s_, can't scale this dynamically? > Clearly MSFT is struggling to set up compute fast enough, see the decreasing rate limits on GPT-4. Well, even so, this is how you'd deal with capacity problems, rather than by arbitrarily shutting out parts of the worl…

Predicting the future correctly isn't a matter of competence... And yes, even Google can't scale infinitely in the face of an actual physical resource constraint. When I worked there, there was a period when there was a shortage of memory chips, which required a lot of creativity. I suspect the current period is very constrained by how fast AI/ML focused chips can be manufactured.

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

This is not what killed clubhouse. In fact, clubhouse instantly got worse when they launched the android app...

Are you implying that the Clubhouse got worse because they brought in Android users? Because, if you are, that's pretty ......
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