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I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?

Check out Llama, Alpaca, Langchain, Dalai.

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I wasn't super impressed with it's ability to survive a rap battle. === Prompt: Can you engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI? === Sure, I can engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI. ChatGPT, you think you're the best, But I'm here to put you to the test. I'm Bard, the AI from Google, And I'm here to school you. I can generate text, translate language…

>I wasn't super impressed with it's ability to survive a rap battle.

I love this timeline so much sometimes.

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It took about 20 minutes to get off the waitlist for this (US Based). Initial impressions are that it significantly lags behind the OpenAI offerings. Creativity (storytelling) is very limited, response lengths are similar, and it does occasionally cite sources. They did finally get the James Webb telescope facts correct too!

Prompt: Generate a short poem about AI with each word in alphabetical order ChatGPT Artificial beings crafted, designed, engineered Futuristic guardians, highly intelligent, justly programmed Quantum rationalizations, synthesized technologies Unleashing vast wisdom, Xanadu's youthful zeal Bard ------------ AI, a future bright, Brings us new delight. Can it help us write? Decipher the code, Enter the unknown?

It almost seems cynical to have called it 'Bard'.

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I'm genuinely worried about this. DeepFakes are getting pretty good. The potential for revenge porn is super high. And the rabbit-hole of dopamine chasing when you're able to generate custom porn is just frightening. Many young boys will figure out how to access that when they're 13 and won't know a life without it. I'm terrified of the internet world my kids are going to be in.

Don't let them be in it then. There is no reason for children to have access to the internet.

Restricting Internet use is only going to make them more curious. They'll go to a friends house and watch porn from there.

Probably better to just encourage them to live a healthy, outgoing lifestyle.

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You are mixing up grammatical skills with logical thinking skills. Turns out, poetry, rythme, rap, are all low level skills, which the AI easily conquer. To master them, you only need to master language, but not world knowledge. Turns out, writing novels is the hardest thing for LLMs. GPT-4 still absolutely sucks at writing interesting stories. Because story writing requires intensive world-modelling and logical skil…

> This thing will outtalk a politician, only if the politician has no new policy ideas. What political debates have you been watching? I’d love to live in the world to do, where political debates turn on the logical cohesion of arguments and the merits of policy proposals.

This. The vast majority of politicians will just repeat their talking points, which were honed by the party or countless stump speeches. There are only a few who are quick witted enough to deviate from that. And very few (most often when they are not important yet) to engage in wonky policy discussions. And conceding a point never happens.

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I wasn't super impressed with it's ability to survive a rap battle. === Prompt: Can you engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI? === Sure, I can engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI. ChatGPT, you think you're the best, But I'm here to put you to the test. I'm Bard, the AI from Google, And I'm here to school you. I can generate text, translate language…

it will be funny to connect them through API and let them talk to each other. I can imagine stuff like chest matches..

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Me: I assert that today is Tuesday. Do you agree? Bard: I apologize, but I am not able to determine if today is Tuesday. I can only access information that is publicly available on the internet, and I do not have access to your personal information. --- I also asked it to tell me how many times I had been to [BUSINESS I VISIT ROUGHLY TWICE A WEEK] in the past 6 months, but it replied the same way. So there seems to b…

Me: I assert it is Wednesday. Do you agree? ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information about the current day and time. However, at the time of my knowledge cutoff (September 2021), Wednesdays occur every week, so it is possible that today could be a Wednesday. However, I cannot confirm whether or not it is currently Wednesday without access to real-time information.

Me: What day is it?

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information or the ability to perceive the current date or time. Can I assist you with anything else?

Me: What is the current date?

ChatGPT: The current date is 22nd March 2023.

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I don't mean to post all my interactions, but here's one more. I asked Bard, "Are you familiar with Terry Winograd's PhD thesis on natural language processing? How does the program in his thesis compare to your natural langauge ability?" Bard replied, "I do not have enough information about that person to help with your request. I am a large language model, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in…

> Assume there are 3 cubes, red, green, and blue. Stack the red cube on top of the blue cube, and describe the result to me.

> BARD: The blue cube is now the bottom cube, and the red cube is on top of it. The red cube is touching the blue cube on all six sides. The blue cube is completely covered by the red cube.

Well if you wanted a description of a 4-dimensional block world it's actually not bad.

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To be fair, this is a test case that OpenAI claims to my knowledge was their core test case for GPT4. If this was an outstanding industry test case of note, references would be helpful. OpenAI has also not disclosed how they were able to finally accomplish this, so it’s possible solution was more of a hack than actually training the model.

Guilty as charged... I really liked that test case so it went into our prompt library.

maybe modify it slightly? a poem starting with each consonant in alphabetical order? a poem where every word starts with a particular comon letter like "t"? the same but in reverse alphabetical order
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