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Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by Tiberium »

guestbest wrote: post #22

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…

Have you tried using Claude for creative writing? I find its creativity to be quite far ahead of GPT-4. You can try it for free on claude.ai, although it needs a phone number and isn't available in all countries (but that can be solved with a VPN, even if the phone number is from a different country).

Re: Bard Extensions

#32

Post by webappguy »

Bard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and this is coming from somebody who uses AI llms all day long for half a year

Re: Bard Extensions

#34

Post by tomComb »

MattyMc wrote: post #24
okdood64 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It is most certainly not about news content - for which they already have arrangements - but links to news articles.

Hence they call it the link tax, but that is not really apt as the money mostly goes to rogers and bell, not taxpayers.

Re: Bard Extensions

#35

Post by behnamoh »

mkoryak wrote: post #17
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.

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

I've heard it's a nice language. If you know English and French, you should be able to pick it up quickly.

Re: Bard Extensions

#36

Post by Tommstein »

webappguy wrote: post #32

Bard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and th…

I've been using Bard since it came out. Its trajectory, in my opinion, has been "pretty shitty" → "pretty good" → "completely shitty".

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Post by golergka »

webappguy wrote: post #32

Bard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and th…

Just tried it, and yeah — it's pretty bad. It first told me that OpenAI's latest model is GPT-3 and only budged to 3.5 after follow-up questions.

I mean, isn't retrieving up-to-date and accurate information from the internet the whole Google's thing?

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Post by sho_hn »

Tommstein wrote: post #36
webappguy wrote: post #32

Bard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and th…

I've been using Bard since it came out. Its trajectory, in my opinion, has been "pretty shitty" → "pretty good" → "completely shitty".

It's probably not going to become interesting until their Gemini model debuts and Bard is transitioned over to it.

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#39

Post by iampims »

cipherself wrote: post #8
raybb wrote: post #4

Can bard actually create a calendar event for me yet or does it still just say that it will then not actually do anything?

Nope, it can't create the events. does it still just say that it will then not actually do anything? It will now say: I can't directly create calendar events for you, but I can help you create a calendar event description. Please provide me with the following information so I can create a detailed description for you: * Event title * Event date and time * Event location * Event attendees (if applicable) * Event descr…

That’s one expensive template engine…

Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by JasonBorne »

webappguy wrote: post #32

Bard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and th…

Which open AI would you suggest the layman use?
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