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Re: Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

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My ChatGPT and Bard use has pretty much flatlined. Has anyone else has a similar experience?

It has stabilised for me.

I use it for queries where I can quickly tell if the answer is BS or not, like code snippets or language related queries (e.g. when I can't find a word, or when I want synonyms).

Re: Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

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My ChatGPT and Bard use has pretty much flatlined. Has anyone else has a similar experience?

I never used it much, but Code Interpreter is fun. I keep hitting quota trying to get it to do things. Hard to say whether it will be practical.

Re: Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

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My ChatGPT and Bard use has pretty much flatlined. Has anyone else has a similar experience?

No - I just checked and I am averaging about 20 queries a day on workdays (software dev) and ~4 per day at weekends (random factfinding where google fails).

Recent queries:

  * Is the english channel wider now than when the romans crossed it, due to erosion and sea level rise?
(Conclusion... probably, but nobody seems to have researched this)

  * Write me some python to output gcode using a gcode library.
(Gave me examples with a few different libraries, because 'gcody' that I was using before seems to have been unmaintained too long)

  * What is the name of the drink that everyone used to drink at makerspaces
(Club Mate - but google didn't seem to know)

  * Write me brief python code to calculate how often 9 tosses of a biased coin has more heads than tails.  The coin returns heads with probability p.
(gave me the answer far quicker than writing the code from scratch)

  * give me a nmap commandline to get lots of info about an ip address
(far quicker than reading the manpage to figure out how to turn on all the tests/checks available)

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My ChatGPT and Bard use has pretty much flatlined. Has anyone else has a similar experience?

I ask it my dumb questions first before asking a human who will hold it against me.

Early search engines would publically show what people were searching for.

It was amazing how prevalent silly/embarrassing questions were. Things like "can kissing cause baby?"

Re: Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries

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Asked it if it could search the web and it said yes. Followed up with "Can you tell me the latest news from Ukraine?" and it responded with "I'm sorry, but I'm a language model and I can't do that"

What happens if you ask it “can you search the web for latest news from Ukraine?”
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