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

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

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version_five wrote: post #93
ignoramous wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Look at Gemini, it’s their new model, currently in closed beta. With all the talent, data, and infrastructure that Google has, I believe them. That said, it is almost comical they'd not unleash what they keep saying is the better model. I am sure they have safety reasons and world security concerns given their gargantuan scale, but nothing they couldn't solve, surely? They make more in a week than what OpenAI proba…

What is the upside for google? Their business is advertising and they have a massive platform for this already. What does a chatbot add? Showing that they are keeping up with evolving technology and that they also can train a competitive offering? From a pride perspective I see why they'd want to compete with OpenAI but from a business perspective? GPT+Bing has come and gone... I'm sure google worries about their bus…

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

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Post by DiabloD3 »

Yeul wrote: post #82
DiabloD3 wrote: post #10

Bard was just produced so Google could tell shareholders that they attempted to enter the "AI" space and "compete" with GPT (as if this was somehow a worthy goal, and worth the time of engineers). Given that goal, it succeeded: they can now tell shareholders they tried and people used it, but now the market is slowly moving to abandon chatty AI type LLM things.

Really? Every company I do business with has replaced its customer service with a chat bot.

No.

Any company that did this did not have customer service, they merely replaced the people they hired to give you a run-around and gaslight you and not actually handle the problem... with a cleverly written program that can be easily mistaken for a human.

At such companies, chat bots and the people that were formerly employed there have no functional difference: they are forbidden to help you, cannot effect the situation in any way, and are not given the ability to change anything.

So yeah, in that incredibly narrow use, they have found an effective way to screw customers more inexpensively.

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

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Post by gumballindie »

xnx wrote: post #15

Overall, Google is doing a least a B+ effort in response to the GPT4 buzz. They already had deep experience and expertise with AI, but hadn't productized it much. In a barrage of blog posts and announcements over the past few months they release new features into nearly every product. I have the Search Generative Experience (generated results above main search results) pretty useful about 20% of the time and easy eno…

> they have to be much more careful in ways that OpenAI doesn't.

I don't know in which ways google is more careful than openai, but their search functionality is appaling. They've probably tied it into some sort of ai already.

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

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Post by hoschicz »

extesy wrote: post #32

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

I'm seeing that they just updated it today on the URL you linked

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

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Post by [deleted] »

version_five wrote: post #93
ignoramous wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Look at Gemini, it’s their new model, currently in closed beta. With all the talent, data, and infrastructure that Google has, I believe them. That said, it is almost comical they'd not unleash what they keep saying is the better model. I am sure they have safety reasons and world security concerns given their gargantuan scale, but nothing they couldn't solve, surely? They make more in a week than what OpenAI proba…

What is the upside for google? Their business is advertising and they have a massive platform for this already. What does a chatbot add? Showing that they are keeping up with evolving technology and that they also can train a competitive offering? From a pride perspective I see why they'd want to compete with OpenAI but from a business perspective? GPT+Bing has come and gone... I'm sure google worries about their bus…

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