Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 218 posts

Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

#31

Post by netdur »

Generally worst than GPT4 but have some killer features, today I asked it for Mortal Kombat 1 release time in my time zone, I can also upload photo and have conversation about it

But if you really wonder what they are building, get access to maker suite and play with, there is nothing comparable to it, only issue for it supports English only

Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

#32

Post by extesy »

When it was first introduced, it received frequent updates [1] but now it's been 2 months since the last update. So either Google is preparing some huge update (Gemini?), or Bard is going to disappear as a standalone product and instead will be absorbed into other products like Search, Docs, etc.

[1] https://bard.google.com/updates

Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

#33

Post by bitcurious »

I asked it to give me a listing of hybrids under 62 inches tall, it only found two, with some obvious ones missing. So I followed up about one of the obvious ones, asking how tall it was. It said 58. I pointed out that 58 was less than 62. It agreed, but instead of revising the list, it wrote some python code that evaluated 58So as a search tool, it failed a core usefulness test for me. As a chatbot, I prefer gpt4.

Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

#34

Post by [deleted] »

bitcurious wrote: post #33

I asked it to give me a listing of hybrids under 62 inches tall, it only found two, with some obvious ones missing. So I followed up about one of the obvious ones, asking how tall it was. It said 58. I pointed out that 58 was less than 62. It agreed, but instead of revising the list, it wrote some python code that evaluated 58 So as a search tool, it failed a core usefulness test for me. As a chatbot, I prefer gpt4.

[deleted]

Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

#36

Post by totetsu »

stephen_g wrote: post #24
totetsu wrote: post #14

I just recently got access to bard by virtue of being a local guide on google maps? I find it can be as useful as cahtgpt4 for noodeling on technical things. It does tend to confidently hallucinate at times. Like my phone auto-corrected ostree to payee, and it proceeded to tell me all about the 'payee' version control system, then when i asked about the strange name it told me it was like managing versions in a simil…

Interesting you say “confidentially hallucinate things” - a “hallucination” isn’t any different from any other LLM output except that it happens to be wrong… “hallucination” is anthropomorphic language, it’s just doing what LLMs do and generating plausible sounding text…

I'm using the phrase everyone else is using to describe a common phenomenon that the discourse seems to have converged on using that phrase for. I take your point that we have until now used hallucinate to describe something humans do, that is, "perceive something that isn't there and believe it is", but seeming as the only way we know if someone is hallucinating is if they say something strange to us, I think we could also say that there is a sense that hallucinate means to "talk about something that isn't there as if it it". LLMs producing text, in the style of a conversation is kind of like talking about things. So we can have a nonconcesous non-human system do something like talking, and if it is talking, it can talk in a way that could be called hallucinating.

Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?

#37

Post by totetsu »

johntiger1 wrote: post #17
totetsu wrote: post #14

I just recently got access to bard by virtue of being a local guide on google maps? I find it can be as useful as cahtgpt4 for noodeling on technical things. It does tend to confidently hallucinate at times. Like my phone auto-corrected ostree to payee, and it proceeded to tell me all about the 'payee' version control system, then when i asked about the strange name it told me it was like managing versions in a simil…

I believe it is region locked. So people in Canada etc. only got it recently

Oh i just checked. It is generally available where I live. I guess the "your invited to try bard because your a local guide" was just trying to make me feel special and go sign up.
Post reply on HN