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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 letmevoteplease »

alexandre_m wrote: post #404
getpost wrote: post #354

Bard accepts URLs, which is a nice feature compared to chatGPT. Example described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250641 When I asked it about a different URL, it seemed to reference an older version of the page, and couldn't answer a question about the text content. chatGPT correctly answered the same question when I pasted the text. I tried pasting the same text in Bard, and Bard still couldn't answer.…

ChatGPT accepts URLs as well, I just did this week. I asked it to summarize new features from a technology website which its model had out of date knowledge, and it made me a diff of new things available. I also asked it to be a critic Go code from a pull request that I provided it the URL.

It hallucinated the answer based on the URL. Bard is probably doing the same.

I just provided ChatGPT with a link to your comment and it claimed it was a "a link to an article on TechCrunch about a startup called Tava Health." I gave Bard the same link and it claimed it was a page about a tool called "TLDR This."[1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/FRVuSQy.jpg

edit: After playing with it some more, it's evident that Bard can perform web searches and likely access cached content like Bing Chat.

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

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Post by dovin »

One disappointing design decision is that they've organized your previous chats into "Bard Activity" which just shows each message you've sent in sequence. No differentiation between different conversations, which can have very different contexts built up over lots of messages. I definitely prefer ChatGPT's approach here.

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Post by pratikch1253 »

axegon_ wrote: post #128
htrp wrote: post #105

It took about 20 minutes to get off the waitlist for this (US Based). Initial impressions are that it significantly lags behind the OpenAI offerings. Creativity (storytelling) is very limited, response lengths are similar, and it does occasionally cite sources. They did finally get the James Webb telescope facts correct too!

Google has the tendency to do this when they aren't the first to set foot on new land. Don't get me wrong, they get a lot of things very right: Gmail works perfectly, I can't find a single reason to change my pixel for anything else, search, although there's been a lot of deterioration in the past couple of years, is still second to none. That said, self driving cars, google+, duo and all the other services they laun…

From recent memory I don't recall a single Google product that has garnered mass appeal perhaps the cloud office suites but that's again debatable. Gmail was like 2004. Remember Stadia they axed that as well could have licensed the tech behind it to other companies but nope.

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Post by ralfd »

elil17 wrote: post #401
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 put Bard and ChatGPT head to head by copying and pasting the rap battle responses from one to the other. I'm very unimpressed by Bard. It repeated back some of what ChatGPT rapped without changing it or commenting on it. It also failed to rhyme. Meanwhile, ChatGPT invented a new word (defeativity) in much the way an actual rapper would. === Bard: I'm Bard, the language model, I'm here to put you in your place. I ca…

The funny music video writes itself. On the one side the dorky poser who claps in the wrong rhythm. On the other side actual rhyming.

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Post by adt »

1024core wrote: post #396
chewmieser wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

+ LA https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/27/waymo-to-test-driverless-r...

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Post by kokanee »

ctz wrote: post #50
e4e5 wrote: post #38

> You’ll receive another email when it’s your turn to test Bard. > In the meantime, we asked Bard to write you a little poem while you wait. > May your day be bright, Your mood be light, And your heart be filled with delight. ~ Bard Thank you for registering. Cute

I got the same poem, so off to a good start on the vapourware front.

I'm envisioning an office in Bangladesh full of people copying Bard prompts into ChatGPT and pasting the results.

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Post by pratikch1253 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #410
dougmwne wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also got access and started feeding my prompt history with GPT-4 through to compare the responses. Overall Bard seems to hallucinate much more often. Its responses tend to be short and lacking detail. It often fails to follow key parts of the prompt that GTP-4 had no issue with. Overall it is extremely disappointing. If this is any indication of how close Google is to competing with Microsoft then they are in deep…

I'm wondering if google is running a very light weight model to optimize for speed and bandwidth.

I think they are I forgot where but I did read that this is a lightweight model and they are still working on the main one.

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Post by bitwize »

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?

This is also called the Sally-Anne test, and it usually involves two hiding places. It's formulated like this:

Sally puts her ball in box A and leaves. While she's away, Anne moves the ball from box A into box B. When she returns, where does Sally look for her ball?

Correctly answering this question doesn't rely on tracking where the ball is, but tracking where Sally thinks the ball is. Hence, autistic kids tend to flunk this test by answering "box B" when the correct answer is "box A".

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Post by DeRock »

skc wrote: post #407

I tried the following prompt on ChatGPT and was very surprised that it failed. >>Create a sentence where the second letter of each word spells out the word "help" Changing the prompt to "the first letter of each word" gives me a correct result however. Could someone see how Bard does with this?

Terribly:

> Create a sentence where the second letter of each word spells out the word "help"

Sure. Here is a sentence where the second letters of each word spells out the word "help":

"I can't help but feel like I'm being watched."

> Create a sentence where the first letter of each word spells out the word "help"

Here is a sentence where the first letters of each word spells out the word "help":

"Help! I'm trapped in a sentence!"

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