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I asked Bard, "Are you running Gemini Pro now?" And it told me, "Unfortunately, your question is ambiguous. "Gemini Pro" could refer to..." and listed a bunch of irrelevant stuff. Is Bard not using Gemini Pro at time of writing? The blog post says, "Starting today, Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro for more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding and more." (EDIT: it is... gave me a correct answer…
Bard still not available in Canada so i can't use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Wonder why Google is the only one that can't release their model here.
Anthropic's Claude is still not available in Canada either. Anyone have insight into why its difficult to bring these AI models to Canada when on the surface its political and legal landscape isn't all that different from the US?
https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en#:~:tex....
We are being singled out because of the Government's Online News Act for tech companies to pay for news links
gladly we have meta and the newly recently created AI Alliance.
Do we know what hardware they used for training? Google's own or Nvidia?
It’s funny as I’m watching the multimodal demo, the feature I’m hoping for the most is less alignment. I think the crippling of GPT has made it so much less useful than it could be. I don’t know if Google would take a bigger chance with it being the second player and having to catch up but that would be one hell of a differentiator. Less policing. Maybe they could get away with it because they have data on what peopl…
Bard still not available in Canada so i can't use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Wonder why Google is the only one that can't release their model here.
Anthropic's Claude is still not available in Canada either. Anyone have insight into why its difficult to bring these AI models to Canada when on the surface its political and legal landscape isn't all that different from the US?
Apple lost the PC battle, MS lost the mobile battle, Google is losing the AI battle. You can't win everywhere.
Beautifully said. So basically: Apple lost the PC battle and won mobile, Microsoft lost the mobile battle and (seemingly) is winning AI, Google is losing the AI battle, but will win .... the Metaverse? Immersive VR? Robotics?
They have the power to crosslink this monetization to the success of people using the platform by just making it part of the algorithm. Pay to play (your videos to any audience) and in so doing, normalize that we pay for this stuff like it's cable. Their economies of scale mean their break-even point is way, way lower than it would be for anybody else.
Maybe it would be unethical to stifle people on your platform if they're not normalizing the consumption of your platform like it's a for-pay service instead of some magical free thing that comes from nowhere, but it really never was a magical free thing, and Google's ability to platform or stifle people is the most powerful force they could possibly call upon.
It's just that they're turning to an actual market now, rather than maintaining the pretense that it's all free and instead getting paid by… what, Russia? Prager U? What has changed in recent years to imply that getting paid by a booming, capitalist market might be more profitable than trying to get paid by malefactors?
I'm pretty sure Google owns media now. That's what they won. We've seen worse than what we're currently seeing as they try to fight adblock and get paid as a service. Remember what happened when everyone thought it was infinite media for free. Someone was still finding a motive to pay 'em, but hidden motives are a lot more worrying.
It’s funny as I’m watching the multimodal demo, the feature I’m hoping for the most is less alignment. I think the crippling of GPT has made it so much less useful than it could be. I don’t know if Google would take a bigger chance with it being the second player and having to catch up but that would be one hell of a differentiator. Less policing. Maybe they could get away with it because they have data on what peopl…