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This is amazing! I can't wait to post about this on Google Wave, Google Currents, Orkut, Jaiku, Google Friend Connect, and Google+, read all about it on Google Reader and Google FastFlip, chat about it with friends on Buzz, Duo, Google Talk, Hangouts, and also blog on my website made with Google Page Creator or Web Hosting on Google Drive or Google Sites. It's just so reassuring to know I can depend on the Google eco…
This seems like a good alternative to all the "ask a PDF a question" GPT wrappers that have sprung up.
This seems like a good alternative to all the "ask a PDF a question" GPT wrappers that have sprung up.
Having implemented my own "ask a PDF a question" GPT wrapper, there's a lot of design decisions / complexity that can make it better/worse and I'm not sure how much a "one-size fits all" google approach will work for google. Convenient that it plugs in directly to your gdrive though.
Do any of the "chat with your documents" type applications have Google Drive integration? Because it's unlikely that Google will take away the API for Drive. But an experimental project like this could easily go up in a puff of red mist.
Doesn’t this take away the important part of doing notes? The writing? A good AI should foster a discussion with the student, not write notes.
This is amazing! I can't wait to post about this on Google Wave, Google Currents, Orkut, Jaiku, Google Friend Connect, and Google+, read all about it on Google Reader and Google FastFlip, chat about it with friends on Buzz, Duo, Google Talk, Hangouts, and also blog on my website made with Google Page Creator or Web Hosting on Google Drive or Google Sites. It's just so reassuring to know I can depend on the Google eco…
Making fun of their killed products is a favorite HN past time, but what would you have them do? Just sit back and not try to make new things? Or keep zombie projects alive, but unmaintained just because a few of us find it really helpful?
Those are the projects I find the saddest. The ones that would have been a good product for a smaller company (or was a smaller company that was acquired), but that isn’t profitable enough at “Google scale” to keep throwing money at.
I get it. Google kills a lot of products that early adopters like. Google Reader was painful to lose at the time. But how many RSS feeds do you now follow?
Let’s just evaluate this new project on its own merits. Do you find it helpful or not — without thinking too much about Googles track record. If this way of using AI is helpful (and I’m very hopeful), then either Google will keep it, or this is the POC a small startup will use to keep something like this around. If it fails, then at least we’ll all have learned something.
HN loves to shit on Google for their loose trail-and-error approach to product releases, but Google Docs is evidently not one of those loose products.
Fundamentally, Google needs a working foundation model before it can build complex products like these. Bard is not up to snuff.