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Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by uoaei »

golergka wrote: post #37
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?

LLMs don't retrieve anything unless there's infra in place so that they can go and do that. It's called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and it's still pretty new enough that it hasn't been integrated in all workflows. There was a bunch of copy early on claiming LLMs "read the internet and find you results" but it's weaselly wording and was until remarkably recently complete BS.

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Post by davidmurdoch »

Bard:

> simply type the name of the product that you want to access after the "@gmail" prompt. For example, to access Google Docs, you would type "@gmail docs".

Me

> @gmail docs

Bard

> Unfortunately, Bard Extensions is still under development and currently doesn't support full integration with Google Docs through Gmail.

Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by jakderrida »

rishav_sharan wrote: post #9
parker_mountain wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Likely the Quebec privacy laws which are gdpr equivalent in many cases. This forces tech companies to create a different experience for Quebec vs rest of Canada. As neither have enough user size, it's often easier to skip Canada altogether till the team has the spare bandwidth for this.

>This forces tech companies to create a different experience for Quebec vs rest of Canada.

That sort of seems like a needless barrier for companies. What is the precedent for that? It almost seems like those in Quebec have established some sort of "We're different, so everyone must suffer" constitutional amendment. But then again, I have no clue.

Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by RandomThrow321 »

janalsncm wrote: post #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.

I've had success with it. The integration with other google services could be a killer feature, but I think it needs some more polish and control. For example, right now it can't add an event to your calendar. I'd think it could at least generate a link to create one. It sort of seems like they're being overly cautious when compared to the way ChatGPT was launched.

Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by replwoacause »

Can someone in the know explain how Bard could be as bad as it is, considering Google has been investing in AI for as long as they have? I thought they were earlier than most to begin serious work on AI? How could Bard suck this bad?

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Post by pram »

JasonBorne wrote: post #40
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?

Mistral OpenOrca is about as good as GPT 3.5 imo

https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-OpenOrca https://ollama.ai/library/mistral-openorca

Re: Bard Extensions

#49

Post by RandomThrow321 »

davidmurdoch wrote: post #43

Bard: > simply type the name of the product that you want to access after the "@gmail" prompt. For example, to access Google Docs, you would type "@gmail docs". Me > @gmail docs Bard > Unfortunately, Bard Extensions is still under development and currently doesn't support full integration with Google Docs through Gmail.

Where did you see that? It seems this is integrating two extensions together, I'm curious how that would work. I asked it "@gmail summarize my last 5 emails" and that worked decently.

Edit: Actually, I'm not completely certain how the "@" syntax works. Are the results limited to that app?

Re: Bard Extensions

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Post by davidmurdoch »

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #49
davidmurdoch wrote: post #43

Bard: > simply type the name of the product that you want to access after the "@gmail" prompt. For example, to access Google Docs, you would type "@gmail docs". Me > @gmail docs Bard > Unfortunately, Bard Extensions is still under development and currently doesn't support full integration with Google Docs through Gmail.

Where did you see that? It seems this is integrating two extensions together, I'm curious how that would work. I asked it "@gmail summarize my last 5 emails" and that worked decently. Edit: Actually, I'm not completely certain how the "@ " syntax works. Are the results limited to that app?

I prompted bard with "What is bard extensions?" and that was part of its response.
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