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Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by okdood64 »

Valgrim wrote: 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.

Blame your government. And I don't mean that in a hostile way. People need to temper their expectations when using a product that is in the crosshairs of their government. Alphabet and Meta aren't startups and they have tangible regulatory obligations.

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Post by guestbest »

For creative writing, I prefer Bard over the other ones for a few reasons. First off, it’s free with any Gmail account and secondly it has draft (3) that I can compare. It may not seem like much but I have a creative workflow and like it much more than Bing AI. I’ve been trying to use GitHub copilot and it is a lot less reasonable to use for technical work. But throwing an idea at Bard is kind of fun once you get in to promoting

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Post by MattyMc »

okdood64 wrote: post #21
Valgrim wrote: 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.

Blame your government. And I don't mean that in a hostile way. People need to temper their expectations when using a product that is in the crosshairs of their government. Alphabet and Meta aren't startups and they have tangible regulatory obligations.

I think you're referring to Canada's Online News Act, which would require companies to pay news outlets for the content they share or repurpose. I'm a Canadian familiar with this story, and Google's opposition to it.

It surprise me if Google would limit Bard in Canada because of the Online News Act. Wouldn't the importance of driving adoption of Bard be much larger than the impact of having to remove Canadian news?

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Post by davidmurdoch »

voiceblue wrote: post #2

The "extensions" link just leads to the bard homepage if you haven't both logged in and accepted terms.

If you arre logged in and gave accepted the terms but your primary Google account is a workspace account that doesn't have bard enabled it also redirects.

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Post by tomComb »

parker_mountain wrote: post #5
Valgrim wrote: 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.

Google says "regulatory uncertainty". It sounds like they're unhappy with Canadian regulators. Be thankful your government is giving them enough grief.

The government is involved in a shakedown of Google for the benefit of bell and Rogers (whose lobbyists wrote it). I’m glad they are pushing back.

There is a law professor at U of Ottawa who is generally considered the most expert and independent on these topics and he has been blowing the whistle on this bill c-18. Michael Geist.

Rogers and bell have quite the grip on our governments but this one really takes the cake.

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Post by elashri »

sandwichbop wrote: post #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

Google Colab pro already provide AI auto-complete (like github copilot) and bard like experience already. [1]

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/signup

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