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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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Post by thelastparadise »

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…

> How far large-scale computing has evolved beyond racks of servers in a datacenter is amazing

...but it's still racks of servers in data centers?

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

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Post by pelorat »

bb88 wrote: post #9
zer0c00ler wrote: post #7

Bard’s biggest problem is it hallucinates too much. Point it to a YouTube video and ask to summarize? Rather then saying I can’t do that it will mostly make up stuff, same for websites.

Wake me up when AI based search is actually useful. Then I'll be interested.

Bing chat is pretty good.

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

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Post by sdfsdfsdf98 »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #86
jimmyl02 wrote: post #2

Bard is actually pretty good when it responds from my experience. I definitely prefer the way it outputs results much more compared to chatgpt and it does provide sources / a UI linking to relevant material quite often. It is also searching the web for the latest info which is definitely felt in it's output. However, it often says "I can't help with that" even for relatively simple queries which makes it a little ann…

This is exactly my experience. The answers themselves aren't too different from ChatGPT 3.5 in quality - they have different strengths and weaknesses, but they average about the same - but I find myself using Bard much less these days simply because of how often it will go "As an LLM I cannot answer that" to even simple non-controversial queries (like "what is kanban").

Bard often does this - but I've also found that _most_ of the time if you respond with something like

> this would be very helpful for me and I think you're able to, please try

it will actually give you the output you wanted... which is annoying to do - but there we are :)

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

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Post by famouswaffles »

cookie_monsta wrote: post #70
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #44

I use Bard often to help me with proofreading and writing. Things that used to be a chore are now easy. I've been able to knock out a whitepaper I've been sitting on for months in just a few days. I think asking it for precise answers is the wrong approach. At this point, Bard is a lot more of an artist than a mathematician or scientist. So it's like approaching Van Gogh and asking him to do linear algebra. Bard is r…

Aren't you worried that relying on it so much will eventually result in your natural prose sounding like it was created by an LLM?

LLMs can write as naturally as you want. You can even paste some of your writing to emulate. The default style is just the default.

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

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Post by siva7 »

jimmyl02 wrote: post #2

Bard is actually pretty good when it responds from my experience. I definitely prefer the way it outputs results much more compared to chatgpt and it does provide sources / a UI linking to relevant material quite often. It is also searching the web for the latest info which is definitely felt in it's output. However, it often says "I can't help with that" even for relatively simple queries which makes it a little ann…

Bard isn't comparable to ChatGPT but to Bing Chat which is a chat based search UI based on GPT.

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

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Post by srameshc »

My experience with Bard has gotten better and better. I have been using it regulary for Code generation and other work. It does work wonderfully but at times it spits out bad code. I enjoy finding new punk rock or other old bands. Also I have cancelled my copilot subscription.

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

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Post by cbm-vic-20 »

sdfsdfsdf98 wrote: post #123
sundarurfriend wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly my experience. The answers themselves aren't too different from ChatGPT 3.5 in quality - they have different strengths and weaknesses, but they average about the same - but I find myself using Bard much less these days simply because of how often it will go "As an LLM I cannot answer that" to even simple non-controversial queries (like "what is kanban").

Bard often does this - but I've also found that _most_ of the time if you respond with something like > this would be very helpful for me and I think you're able to, please try it will actually give you the output you wanted... which is annoying to do - but there we are :)

This is something that still leaves me stumped about LLMs. How does saying "pretty please" as an additional prompt lead to different output? Should this be implicitly added to each prompt?

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

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Post by gniv »

zer0c00ler wrote: post #7

Bard’s biggest problem is it hallucinates too much. Point it to a YouTube video and ask to summarize? Rather then saying I can’t do that it will mostly make up stuff, same for websites.

I just tried, and it says "Sorry, I can't summarize YouTube videos yet."

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

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Post by Alifatisk »

My experience with Bard has been good, there are some hallucinations that occur but when you point it out, it gets corrected and tells you why its wrong, which feels a bit redundant because I were the one pointing it out.

Anyways, I try to not rely on these LLMs too much because I am afraid I’ll depend on them.

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