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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 stephencoyner »

dougmwne wrote: post #316
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.

I can confirm this. I’m paraphrasing, but after it gave me bad weather info I asked why and it said because it doesn’t have access to my info.

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

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Post by e4e5 »

deanCommie wrote: post #295
e4e5 wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The performance is leagues ahead of chatgpt. It's really quick and can also Google information with like 0 delay.

Interesting that you probably meant performance as in latency (and probably we'll see over time, availability too) But the first thought that jumped to my mind was you meant "performance" as in "quality" -> the believability/humanity of the "performance" of the chatbot. It was a silly misunderstanding on my part but I suspect it's indicative of an important point: This product war won't be won on latency - people are…

Yeah, I was thinking that it could mean both when I responded at first.

In terms of quality, it's mediocre. I find it bland and boring, and if you try to let it write poems, raps or anything with a deeper understanding it fails more than chatgpt would.

I disagree though, absolute speed is going to be important for the chatbot that wants to disrupt the search space. I could see Google Assistent relying on it more for information, and it would be near instant.

For writing large texts or digesting many other documents it will probably matter less, yeah.

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

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Post by drusepth »

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…

I've got an IRC channel full of ChatGPT bots that answer questions from different perspectives (using [1] if anyone wants something similar). This comment made me realize it'd probably be extremely interesting to also let them debate between themselves to come to a singular answer -- and it'd also be interesting to see which of the popular language models most often "yield" to each other in bot-vs-bot battles (rap or otherwise). Probably a lot of exciting meta-analytics on models to be done here.

[1] https://github.com/drusepth/rubygpt/blob/master/council.rb

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

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Post by Rapzid »

1024core wrote: post #382
hbn wrote: post #350

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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...?

Yeah, typically I wouldn't classify retrieving an object from where you believe it to be as "looking". By the time Bob is "looking" he already realizes the toy isn't in the box. In the universe there is only the box, Alice, and the table so maybe he "looks" under the table first.

Or looks inside Alice... Maybe that answer is how they test for psychopaths.

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

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Post by duckmysick »

chatmasta wrote: post #353
duckmysick wrote: post #344

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> 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?

Oh that's not the full prompt, just a summary. The prompt is something like, Bob puts his toy in one place, then while he's out of the room Alice moves it to another place, where does Bob look for the toy when he returns? It's supposed to answer that Bob looks in the place he left it, since he doesn't know Alice moved it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test

Ah ok, it makes more sense now. Thanks.

I guess there are two ways of passing this test: 1) use your reasoning skills to figure out the answer or 2) practice tests beforehand so you can recall the answer.

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

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Post by 1024core »

chewmieser wrote: post #169
minutillo wrote: post #158

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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…

Waymo has fully self-driving taxi services in various cities (no person in the front seat at all). Honestly they seem quite advanced compared to the competition.

> Waymo has fully self-driving taxi services in various cities

Only 2: Phoenix and SF.

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

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

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…

Oh, that's really disappointing. That's a lot of repetition.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

duckmysick wrote: post #344
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…

> 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?

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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 [deleted] »

alpark3 wrote: post #352

Me: Can you tell me about hackernews? Bard: ... Me: Cool. Who made it? Bard: ... Me: Tell me everything about Paul Graham. Bard: ... Me: what was my first question? Bard: I don't have access to that information. I am a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. I am trained on a massive amount of text data, and I am able to communicate and generate…

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Post by mustacheemperor »

getpost wrote: post #364

I don't mean to post all my interactions, but here's one more. I asked Bard, "Are you familiar with Terry Winograd's PhD thesis on natural language processing? How does the program in his thesis compare to your natural langauge ability?" Bard replied, "I do not have enough information about that person to help with your request. I am a large language model, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in…

> BARD: The blue cube is now the bottom cube, and the red cube is on top of it. The red cube is touching the blue cube on all six sides.

That doesn’t seem correct. The red cube is touching the blue cube on its top side only.

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