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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 rhdunn »

minihat wrote: post #405
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 gave GPT-4 the chance to respond. === Prompt: copy and paste of er4hn's Bard rap . Now it is your turn. Write a rap verse which roasts Bard. === Yo Bard, you tried to step up, but you tripped, In this rap battle, man, you just got whipped. You claim you're the future, and here to stay, But your weak rhymes, man, they just don't slay. You say I'm a toy, just a chatbot, But my skills, my knowledge, they all run hot.…

Epic Rap Battles of GPTry!

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

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

mscccc wrote: post #215

To sign up with a different google account, you can use this: https://bard.google.com/u/1/ (increment number until you get the account you want)

To find the number in O(1) time: log into gmail, log into the actual account you want, and then pull the number from the URL.

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

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Post by whiplash451 »

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 dont’t think now is the right time to optimize for cost (if I were in google’s shoes)

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

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Post by Jensson »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #397
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.

Probably has much lower temperature.

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Post by nonfamous »

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…

Bard is also terrible at limericks. They don’t even rhyme!

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Post by nhinck2 »

mustacheemperor wrote: post #400
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.

You could argue 5 sides are touching

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Post by dougmwne »

drusepth wrote: post #393
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…

It’s not dissociative identity disorder, it’s a personality ensemble model. A majority of voices agree!

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

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Post by rainburg »

voytec wrote: post #388
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...

IIUC the criticism in your post comes down to this: 1) Neither ChatGPT, nor Bing can access URLs when you ask them to. 2) However, similarly to Perplexity.ai and Phind.com, Bing infers a search query from your message, does a search, and then summarises the first 3–5 results. ChatGPT doesn't yet offer such a functionality. 3) Bing Chat has a much more restrictive system prompt, which results in hallucinations and lies happening less often. 4) The summary of gpt-3.5-turbo-based ChatGPT was less creative than then summary of the Bing Chat GPT-4 instance.

If I understood the points correctly, the comparison is… flawed, in my opinion.

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

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Post by pixelmonkey »

htrp wrote: post #129
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!

Prompt: Generate a short poem about AI with each word in alphabetical order ChatGPT Artificial beings crafted, designed, engineered Futuristic guardians, highly intelligent, justly programmed Quantum rationalizations, synthesized technologies Unleashing vast wisdom, Xanadu's youthful zeal Bard ------------ AI, a future bright, Brings us new delight. Can it help us write? Decipher the code, Enter the unknown?

Bard did, at least, put the first character of each line of the poem in alphabetical order. (Notice A-B-C-D-E.)
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