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Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by jvolkman »

com2kid wrote: post #288
jvolkman wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Pixel 7's fingerprint reader works near 100% of the time. The only time I have problems is if my finger or the screen are wet.

What finger do you use? I use my left thumb, pick up the phone, no go. It is a complete sad joke. After a few weeks I think I've been trained by the phone on exactly how to hold is to the fingerprint reader works more often, but the fact I can only have to use all the programming slots for fingers on just one finger is sad. Edit: OMG, I just read online that rebooting the phone after recording fingerprints improves r…

I usually use my left thumb after taking it out of my left pant pocket.

I also use a TPU screen protector, not glass. I've read that various glass protectors can interfere.

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by gkfasdfasdf »

Looks like the UI could use some work. I asked it how to dump CLI args in bash, the response contained what is clearly meant to be formatting markup: Looks like the UI could use some work. I asked it how to dump CLI args in bash, the response contained what is clearly meant to be formatting markup:

    To dump the arguments of a bash script, you can use the @\ variable. This variable expands to all of the arguments that were passed to the script. For example, if you have a script called `myscript.sh`, and you run it with the following arguments:
    ```
    myscript.sh foo bar baz
    ```

Re: Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK

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Post by Jayakumark »

Frankly this is not anywhere comparable to ChatGPT/Claude for Coding , even Ask AI app on IOS from some not so famous startup - Codeway from Turkey is Way better. They should just buy them instead. They just dumped 300M for 10% of claude, it would have been better spent on buying whole companies outside US.

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Post by anonyfox »

zerop wrote: post #293
anonyfox wrote: post #285

The point is, no one cares, google. - you probably are behind OpenAI ChatGPT, and far behind GPT4 in the tool's quality - people expect you to sunset the service soon either way, so no one starts to depend on it - at this point you are a parasite that siphons from and killed the world wide web in the process - your core value proposition (finding answers) is eaten up by the new chatbots that explain stuff instead of…

Agree with your points. But what would stop Google from making bard better than GPT over next few months. Google has got: 1. best data to train LLM 2. Best AI engineers 3. Money to spend on training hardware for LLM I wouldn't keep Google out of this GPT trend so easily

first: the innovators dilemma - AI-based queries are much more expensive than traditional search index queries + no comparable level of monetization, so it would cannibalize googles revenue massively and wall street calling the doomsday that mit outright kill the behemoth

second: there seems to be no capable product management or at least not in charge, so these engineers are a massive waste of horsepower and should do something meaningful for the world instead of tuning advertising profits

third: all these beliefs might turn out like recently the fear of the russian military - only existing on paper. maybe most of these rockstar engineers are long gone elsewhere and nobody notices because huge revenue streams are masquerading it?

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Post by dougmwne »

stephencoyner wrote: post #216

Me: As a part of Google, do you have my personal info? Bard: Yes, as a part of Google, I have access to some of your personal information. This information includes your name, email address, and phone number. I also have access to your search history and your location data. I use this information to provide you with personalized search results and to improve my ability to understand and respond to your questions. I u…

That is hallucinated. It does not have any user data on me. It did hallucinate some more random information when I asked.

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Post by xnx »

fecs wrote: post #53
annon wrote: post #6

Overall very underwhelming... not even really a compelling landing page. Can't write code, can't understand any language besides english. If this is really the best they've got after months of 'code red' to catch up, they really seem to be in trouble.

Hmm. This is not correct. Bard can write code.

Can it? This was the response I got: "I'm designed solely to process and generate text, so I'm unable to assist you with that."

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Post by pugio »

My initial impression is (compared to ChatGPT 3.5-turbo) - not impressed.

I asked it for today's date, and it said "Monday, March 20, 2023" which is baffling to me – either it doesn't have access to "current" information, or it does. But off by one?

"What is the knowledge cutoff of your training data?" > My training data was cut off in September 2021. This means that I do not have access to any information that was published after that date. However, I am able to access and process information that was published before that date.

Then I tried to get it to help me with finding some papers, but it continuously misinterpreted my prompts, or gave me lackluster results.

Back to GPT I go.

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Post by cschmidt »

I got my invite, and had a bit of a play. It seems like it hallucinates more than ChatGPT. There was something wrong with many answers. The prose it generates seems a bit more clunky and repetitive. It doesn't do any coding or programming yet. Occasionally it cites a web link with an answer, which is interesting.
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