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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 gaogao »

pugio wrote: post #318

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 p…

It has data as of yesterday, ingested through Knowledge Graph I think (could potentially be something more raw too). For example, it can answer stock price questions from yesterday.

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Post by 1024core »

hbn wrote: post #350
duckmysick wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Alice and Bob are playing, Bob leaves, Alice hides his toy, Bob comes back, where does he look for his toy? I might be dumber than the AI because I don't know the answer. Bob looks around? I mean the toy is not there when he comes back. Where else can he check?

It's not a very well described example of the test. I've heard of this before but used to test for autism, and it was more something like "Bob puts his toy in a box and leaves, Alice takes his toy out of the box and hides it under a desk, when Bob comes back where does he go to grab his toy?" The idea is if someone said "under the desk" they might not understand that people have different subsets of information, i.e.…

Well, maybe Bob sees the desk and decides to look under it...?

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Post by rnk »

JohnnyMarcone wrote: post #322
minutillo wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, many cars with various levels of self-driving are available. Almost every car maker now has basic lane following and adaptive cruise control. Some add navigation, lane changing, and the ability to obey traffic signals. GM has a system called Super Cruise that allows the driver to take their hands off the wheel. Mercedes has Drive Pilot which is the first level 3 self driving system. Google has not released anyth…

I just took a 20 minute ride to the airport in a Waymo yesterday. They are operating in two locations in Arizona and expanding to San Francisco.

Do the cars drive at freeway speeds, 60 mph plus on the freeway? My impression was they don't go on roads with speeds that fast, they limit themselves to roads with speedsmaybe up to 40.

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Post by dw_arthur »

margorczynski wrote: post #155

Google top brass and board should just flush down their product people and start from scratch. It's embarrassing at his point how inept they are at coming up with ideas and executing on them. There's a lot of really smart people there and talented engineers and lot of that is wasted by product management being incompetent.

I figured they knew that google search hasn't worked for years and were working on solutions that no other company could match. Guess I was wrong.

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Post by davidw »

margorczynski wrote: post #155

Google top brass and board should just flush down their product people and start from scratch. It's embarrassing at his point how inept they are at coming up with ideas and executing on them. There's a lot of really smart people there and talented engineers and lot of that is wasted by product management being incompetent.

Any day now they're going to release some new messaging and video offerings that are going to really turn things around.

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Post by voytec »

chatmasta wrote: post #253

I just got off the waitlist. Quick impression: it's not as good as ChatGPT. I gave it the false belief test (Alice and Bob are playing, Bob leaves, Alice hides his toy, Bob comes back, where does he look for his toy?), which it both passed and recognized as the false belief test. I then asked it to write a React program that ChatGPT has no problem with, and it hallucinated some incorrect code before eventually tellin…

> Quick impression: it's not as good as ChatGPT.

Not as good? ChatGPT is crap since M$FT re-donated OpenAI with $10b. Even the paid version is worse[1] than Bing Chat.

[1] https://wojteksychut.com/posts/ml-text-summarization-reliabi...

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Post by AlwaysRock »

er4hn wrote: post #380

I wasn't super impressed with it's ability to survive a rap battle. === Prompt: Can you engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI? === Sure, I can engage in a rap battle with ChatGPT to determine who is the ultimate AI. ChatGPT, you think you're the best, But I'm here to put you to the test. I'm Bard, the AI from Google, And I'm here to school you. I can generate text, translate language…

This is gold.
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