Canadian here, just checked and still no access. It's like some kind of bad joke is being played on us, Google can pound sand.
Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
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Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#142My reaction to this headline was “oh yeah, Bard.” So it certainly isn’t winning in the mindshare department.
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#143Bard’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.
Yup. For example I asked it some questions in linear algebra[1]. The answers (if you didn't know linear algebra) seemed convincing, full of equations etc but the equations were wrong. Looked good, but just totally wrong in loads of important ways. When I pointed out the mistake it geneally returned with a proof of why its previous result was wrong. Now I could have walked away patting myself on the back, but even wit…
>What's the difference between a linear map and a linear transformation?
Are they not the same?
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#144I 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
Was curious so checked Canada but it isn't available [0]. I think it is due to the Online News Act legislation (C-18) and perhaps the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (C-27).
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, what exactly is the killer feature in this example? You say you asked it something and then didn't say what killer answer it actually responded with
OP probably means access to information after Sep 2021. MK1 release date was announced 1 week ago.
Was questioning my sanity here, but wikipedia confirms that the first mortal kombat is from 1992 ... but the first release is not called mortal kombat 1, it's just mortal kombat, followed by mortal kombat 2 through 11 followed by 1. Okay that's not confusing at all.
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#146six months later and not available in Canada, somehow
I think they're waiting on the fall-out of the Online News Act legislation (C-18) and perhaps the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (C-27).
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#147Look at Gemini, it’s their new model, currently in closed beta. Hearsay says that it’s multimodal (can describe images), GPT-4 like param count, and apparently has search built in so no model knowledge cutoff. Basically they realized Bard couldn’t cut it and merged DeepMind into Google Brain, and got the combined team to work on a better LLM using the stuff OpenAI has figured out since Bard was designed. Takes months…
I think the DeepMind / Brain reorg happened way before all this, didn't it? Might be misremembering history...
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#148Bard 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.
How is BingChat different than ChatGPT if they are both text interfaces you use to have a chat dialog with the underlying GPT-3.5 / GPT-4?
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#149So just in case people forget. Bard initially launched with the lamda model (the one that got that guy fired) [1] Bard was soundly mocked for how bad it was and they relaunched it with the Palm2 Model[2]. I suspect at some time in the near future, if they haven't done so already, they'll just quietly move Bard's underlying language model to Gemini. [1] https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda... […
I'm a layman, what's the difference between those models?
Re: Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing?
#150After the massive facepalm on launch I'd pretty much forgotten it existed, tbh.
It will be discontinued anyway, like nearly all google products.
I don't see that happening. Barb is basically their new search tool. It's not Google Reader or Stadia that falls outside of their usual product offering.