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Re: Bard now open to use

#181
Few political question I asked, were immediately answered with a heavy dose of ultra liberal answers. Of course expecting anything else from the brain child of Mountain View communists would be too much to ask. So, bard is not artificial intelligence. It is an artificial mouthpiece.

Re: Bard now open to use

#182
The relationship between Bard and PaLM 2 is pretty confusing. Bard itself gives inconsistent answers about that [1]. And Google claims that

> PaLM 2 was trained on a corpus that features over 100 languages, making it, in Google’s words, “excel at multilingual tasks,”

whereas Bard can only speak 3 languages [2].

ChatGPT's skills in my language (Tamil) are lackluster, and I was looking forward to being impressed by Bard "excelling at multilingual tasks". That would have been one place where ChatGPT doesn't set the bar too high, a chance for an easy win for Bard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35891606

[2] https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en&sjid=1...

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#183

I tried: Question/Task: Write a lock implementation in Rust I got this (lol): use std::sync::Mutex; struct Lock { mutex: Mutex , } impl Lock { fn new() -> Lock { Lock { mutex: Mutex::new(()), } } fn lock(&self) -> MutexGuard { self.mutex.lock().unwrap() } fn unlock(&self) { self.mutex.unlock(); } }

I mean, it's not really wrong, is it? :D Have you tried the same with gpt4?

Re: Bard now open to use

#186
post #143

After asking a few questions, I’m very disappointed with its quality compared to Bing Chat. My current AI chat benchmark is to ask about LLVM APIs. I’ve asked to both Bing Chat and Bard three questions: - What info can the LLVM lazy-value-info analysis pass analyze? - Can you give me code samples to use the info? - Can you give me a list on important LVI methods? Both fared well on the first question, but on the seco…

Do we know if the comparable here is Bing or chatgpt4? By which I mean, does bard have internet access?

It's appears to be sort of hooked up to the internet.

For example, I asked it the weather in one location and it provided accurate current weather, but in another location it responded with an "as of 10AM" answer.

It definitely has much newer information than OpenAI models, but also hallucinates a fair bit.

Re: Bard now open to use

#187
You know what, after giving it a try, I can see myself using this regularly - probably more than ChatGPT - for a simple reason: it gives decent answers, and is far quicker to load, doesn't have the constant Cloudflare annoyance, and responds quicker too. (And I expect those to remain true in the coming days too, since it's Google.)

I'll take some hit in the answer quality in return for those - I end up not bothering with ChatGPT a lot of the time simply because how much of a pain it is to load it up, how often it requires random reloads of the page, overall how much friction there is in accessing it.

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#188

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned! Lol, I'm in Germany :D I was wondering where all the people saying the same came from. Apparently not any country with an embargo, that was my theory.

Scandinavia, not available either.

I'm guessing this is the typical Google take of "US only".

Re: Bard now open to use

#189
post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sign-in button is coerced consent? You can choose not to sign in. What is the coercion? > non-essential functions Are you sure you're not talking about cookie consent laws? (The reason "non-essential" is a qualifier for cookies is that, e.g., a log in session will require the use of cookies but is also considered "essential".) (Please also understand the appeal to authority in "is illegal in many places". That's…

A business duty to comply with the law is not a rhetorical appeal to authority, it is a fact. Ask the accountant who wrote the check to the CNIL for the most recent cookie fine what they think.

Your reply suggests you're not totally familiar with what "appeal to authority" means. Your argument (so far) is indeed an appeal to authority. "It's true because so-and-so says."

Re: Bard now open to use

#190

Not bad Emulate a Linux red hat system terminal. Assume all of my prompts are Linux commands on a red hat system and evaluate as such for your responses. Responses will be in a code block. My first command is whoami Sure, I can do that. Here is the output of the whoami command on a Red Hat system: Code snippet $ whoami bard Use code with caution. Learn more content_copy Please let me know if you have any other comman…

Pretty sure sending plaintext HTTP requests on port 443 doesn't actually work though. ..

Right, that’s just typically used to validate the port/connectivity
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