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Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#21
post #13

The blog post is an example of why when you go through a number of edits and additions from various internal groups, marketing, legal, compliance etc. you end up with a message that's a lot of words but not a lot of information for any key audience. I went through the article 3 times thinking I missed the link to try out Bard, get some sense of timeline, roll-out plan...nothing. Come on Google...

There is an event on Wednesday which will likely provide more information.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#22
> We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback.

Seems odd to release something worse than the competition. Is there a reason why google wouldn't just come out with the best the have? Are they afraid this will eat into their ad revenue if people no longer need to click on links? Or are they just not able to build and deploy something on the scale of OpenAI's GPT3?

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#23
post #13

The blog post is an example of why when you go through a number of edits and additions from various internal groups, marketing, legal, compliance etc. you end up with a message that's a lot of words but not a lot of information for any key audience. I went through the article 3 times thinking I missed the link to try out Bard, get some sense of timeline, roll-out plan...nothing. Come on Google...

If you have to ask, you're not invited.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#24
post #9

>AI can be helpful in these moments, synthesizing insights for questions where there’s no one right answer. Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web: whether that’s seeking out additional perspectives, like blogs from people who play both piano and gui…

i wonder what kind of downstream effects on the ad click industry this will have. would kill for it all to die and be reinvented in a different, more personalizable and clever way

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#25
> And today, we’re [...] opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.

It feels like a mistake to make the big announcement for this, but not open it up to a wide audience. It's not like ChatGPT hasn't been out for months now. Not sure how much they gain by making headlines before it's ready for people to play with it.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#26
I just hope if they introduce this into search there's a way to turn this off and just get the normal search results because as it stands these models are basically just Borges Library of Babel and make up whatever they want.

The uniform natural language interface makes it impossible to make an individual judgement whether the source of what result you get is reliable at all.

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#27
post #10

"But increasingly, people are turning to Google for deeper insights and understanding" I'm just trying to just get relevant results for my query man ...

“But increasingly, people are turning to Google for deeper insights and understanding"

Neither of which are provided by AI

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#28
post #23
post #13

The blog post is an example of why when you go through a number of edits and additions from various internal groups, marketing, legal, compliance etc. you end up with a message that's a lot of words but not a lot of information for any key audience. I went through the article 3 times thinking I missed the link to try out Bard, get some sense of timeline, roll-out plan...nothing. Come on Google...

If you have to ask, you're not invited.

It means they are not a “trusted tester.”

Re: Bard and new AI features in Search

#30
post #9

>AI can be helpful in these moments, synthesizing insights for questions where there’s no one right answer. Soon, you’ll see AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web: whether that’s seeking out additional perspectives, like blogs from people who play both piano and gui…

That's good for users, potentially. But not good for the sites where google is sourcing the information.
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