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Post by jvolkman »

amluto wrote: post #264
mclightning wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

At least Google has an account switcher. I’m looking at you, AWS. (I’m currently launching a project on Google Cloud, and I’m picking it over AWS primarily because the AWS console’s account management is so terrible [0]. There are only so many hours in the day, and the whole point of paying a 4-40x markup for the cloud is to reduce workload.) Not that Google’s account switcher has ever been particularly good. [0] Not…

For organization accounts, we just use `aws+account-name@company.com` which routes all emails for all accounts to one alias.

Also, yeah, AWS' account situation is bonkers. Even with organizations, if you have an account open in one tab and open another account in another, you get logged out of the first. Bonkers.

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Post by judge2020 »

winddude wrote: post #62

"The new A.I. chatbot will be available to a limited number of users in the United States and Britain and will accommodate additional users, countries and languages over time, Google executives said in an interview." So no, no they didn't release it.

I joined the waitlist 24 minutes after this was posted to HN, then got accepted into Bard 1h30m later.

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Post by wilg »

endtime wrote: post #180
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.…

> 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.

I do not understand why Google makes it so difficult to pay them for a custom email domain.

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Post by crazygringo »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #290
crazygringo wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. You have to go through legal review in every country, is this breaking an accessibility law in Australia or a copyright law in Argentina or a localization law in Canada or an antitrust law in the EU? That's just how it works. That stuff takes months, so do you prefer to withhold it from the US until that's all completed? In a competitive environment that moves quickly, that's not an option.

"That's just how it works" is trivially invalidated by looking at how it works beyond the walls of this particular corp, eg Bing. So all you're saying is that however the powers that be behave is how they ought to behave

I think this is something Bing had been planning for months, so they had time to do all this review in advance?

While Google was caught flat-footed and has had to rush this in response.

I'm basing this just on what I've read, of course.

And if that's the case, I don't think my explanation is invalidated at all, nor "trivially".

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Post by truthsayer123 »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #227
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.…

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.

Does launching it globally break laws of Physics?

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Post by wilg »

realPubkey wrote: post #193
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.

Clubhouse was a stupid product, it was just putting all the people who were most annoying in school into one room so they could tire themselves out. Nobody wants to listen to that.

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Post by gkfasdfasdf »

Apparently if you are a Google One member you get priority access?

  Because you’re a Google One member, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to 
  be among the first to sign up for the new Bard experience and provide feedback. 
  Think of Bard as your creative and helpful collaborator, here to bring your 
  ideas to life using generative AI.

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

t0mas88 wrote: post #237
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You mean like a company the size of Microsoft? Bing chat was earlier and global.

Bing is 3.5% of market share in Europe, and Edge is even less.

You're talking about maybe ~1% of search that Bing Chat is practically available to (in Europe).

It's a lot less risky for Microsoft to do what they did than for Google to just open the floodgates in Europe.

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Post by xdavidliu »

t0mas88 wrote: post #237
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You mean like a company the size of Microsoft? Bing chat was earlier and global.

MS only dared to put it in Bing after OpenAI's dogfood succeeded. If it had started spouting troublesome stuff, MS wouldn't have touched ChatGPT.

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

truthsayer123 wrote: post #295
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does launching it globally break laws of Physics?

No - but you don't need physics for legal liabilities...
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