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See also: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253 How about we use that thread for comments about the product itself, and this thread for comments about the waitlist/country/account restrictions.
See also: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253 How about we use that thread for comments about the product itself, and this thread for comments about the waitlist/country/account restrictions.
I got my invite a couple hours after joining the waitlist.
The discussion is partitioned almost evenly between these two distinct topics, though, so I think it makes sense to keep the threads separate.
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.
> 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.…
ChatGPT wasn't available to everyone initially (huge waitlist).
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...
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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.
> 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. In order to not geo-block, Google would need to be able to scale infinitely? What kind of straw man is this? > there was a shortage of memory chips, which required a lot of creativity. Geo-blocking doesn't strike me as particularly creative as far as solu…
I cannot think of a legitimate basis to discriminate by country.
Whether you agree with it or not, the EU has proved itself to take consistently anti-big US tech stances, so I can see why they might be deterred from releasing to that market without obvious financial benefits.
Is that how you call trying to protect consumers over there? Really, there are genuinely good reasons for those "stances".
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…
Since it's not available in our countries, we cannot do much but complain, can we?
These are not for venting.
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basically not all countries speak english as a first language, so it wouldn't make sense to put it in all countries. secondly, staggered rollout is pretty common
No, language doesn't make sense. Everyone in Sweden knows English. Actually nowadays I bet higher percentage of Swedes know English than know Swedish.
Is that hyperbole? Because that would be very sad if true, culturally speaking. There are 5 different official languages in my country (Spain) and there are several laws to prevent them from becoming extinct for this very reason.