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Re: Bard Extensions

#11
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Okay so after 8 months, after being released in 48 languages and 238 countries, for some reason, Bard still isn't available in Canada? This has to be a joke.

The Canadian government is picking a fight with Google, Meta, and others right now so that's likely why Google is withholding something like this to help create some pressure.

Re: Bard Extensions

#12
Not bad. It’s limited in what it can do but I would probably check Bard if ChatGPT went down.

I have the “AI search” extension enabled in Google search as well and it’s pretty unreliable. Seems like half of my coding questions it hallucinated some function that doesn’t exist.

But if Google release Bard in its current state a year ago most people probably would be using it now, even if it’s inferior.

Re: Bard Extensions

#13

Not bad. It’s limited in what it can do but I would probably check Bard if ChatGPT went down. I have the “AI search” extension enabled in Google search as well and it’s pretty unreliable. Seems like half of my coding questions it hallucinated some function that doesn’t exist. But if Google release Bard in its current state a year ago most people probably would be using it now, even if it’s inferior.

I've used it to find flights and it was actually really nice. I didn't have a destination for my vacation so I asked for flights for cities at least X km away from me and costing at most Y, in the next Z months. It promptly answered.

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#14
Just checked out Bard for the first time because of the OpenAI outage. It sucks. It feels worse than GPT-3.5 with worse reasoning and instruction following. This is embarrassing for Google.

EDIT: Just to be clear: I want it to be good. It's unfortunate that it's underwhelming.

Re: Bard Extensions

#15
post #3

Okay so after 8 months, after being released in 48 languages and 238 countries, for some reason, Bard still isn't available in Canada? This has to be a joke.

I always wanted to say the same thing. I don't understand why chatgpt doesn't have the "regulatory issue" at all.

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#16
Surprised to see this here, was just reading about it on the bard page a few minutes ago since I been killing time waiting for chatGPT to come back up for Plus Users. I think it would be really cool if we could get a Bard extension for Google Colab, maybe some integration with the Colab Pro would be really interesting analogous to the Data Analysis Plugin

Re: Bard Extensions

#17
post #3

Okay so after 8 months, after being released in 48 languages and 238 countries, for some reason, Bard still isn't available in Canada? This has to be a joke.

Maybe it doesn't know how to speak Canadian yet?

Re: Bard Extensions

#18
post #10
post #3

Okay so after 8 months, after being released in 48 languages and 238 countries, for some reason, Bard still isn't available in Canada? This has to be a joke.

What is a Canada? More seriously, is there some regulatory reason that makes releasing it in Canada more difficult?

Yet OpenAI is supported in canada

Re: Bard Extensions

#19
post #14

Just checked out Bard for the first time because of the OpenAI outage. It sucks. It feels worse than GPT-3.5 with worse reasoning and instruction following. This is embarrassing for Google. EDIT: Just to be clear: I want it to be good. It's unfortunate that it's underwhelming.

It’s cheesy af, you don’t have to wonder why it’s still in beta
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