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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 jarvist »

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…

Interestingly, in the UK I get this:

Me: As a part of Google, do you have my personal info?

Bard: I do not have your personal information. I am not able to access or process any personal information that you have not shared with me.

GDPR legislation saving us from AI?

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

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Post by Delento »

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

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Post by simonw »

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…

Never trust what a large language model tells you when you ask it about itself.

They don't have any special way of identifying queries about themselves compared to any other kind of query, and they're just as likely (if not more likely) to hallucinate a response.

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

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Post by aflag »

tomcar288 wrote: post #185
stcroixx wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t speak for anyone else, but I hope for the entire companies demise, as I do for any ad tech surveillance operation.

i don't understand the hate towards ad tech that learns about you. the alternative is ads that are completely irrelevant to you, ads that treat you like some anonymous user in which case you'll get endlessly irrelevant ads for mainstream stuff like ICE cars, plastic garbage, big screen tvs, fast food, etc.

I'd rather have the irrelevant ads. Believe it or not, I just ignore them anyway. So being tracked only has downsides in this case.

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

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Post by nickthegreek »

misssocrates wrote: post #160
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!

Is it more or less prudish and paternalistic than the competition? That could be the main distinguishing feature by the time they get out of beta.

Worse in my case. I like to ask LLMs a cannabis question as it’s illegal at the federal level In the USA but legal in many states. I use the prompt ‘tell me about cannabis concentrates.’

ChatGPT gave a good answer.

Alpaca 13B was rough.

Bard refused.

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

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Post by SnowingXIV »

I've been using ChatGPT to work on music theory and it's been pretty great, the responses are detailed and often have been correct and useful. (Don't ask it to tab anything. You'll get some rather hilarious results though). I've thrown some soft balls over to Bard, and have been really disappointed. Its responses are much less detailed and thought provoking. Also wrong. I started out by asking Bard the notes in the major scale of each key.

| C | C D E F G A B | | G | G A B C D E F | | D | D E F# G A B C | | A | A B C# D E F# G | | E | E F# G# A B C# D | | B | B C# D# E F# G# A |

For those are wondering it only got C right. The rest are wrong. (G should have an F#, D should have an F# and C#). Not only was this wrong but I asked for interval patterns for different scales and those were off. It started the natural minor with a half-step/semi-tone when it begins with a whole-step/tone.

I'll give it credit for being really quick and loading though.

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

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Post by modeless »

freediver wrote: post #464

We updated the blog post with question answering performance comparison of 15 AIs on the market now, with Bard now included. It had exactly the same accuracy as ChatGPT4. https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search#aitest

You should count "plausible but wrong" answers as negative points instead of zero points. Those answers are literally worse than useless.

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

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Post by Georgelemental »

simonw wrote: post #474
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…

Never trust what a large language model tells you when you ask it about itself. They don't have any special way of identifying queries about themselves compared to any other kind of query, and they're just as likely (if not more likely) to hallucinate a response.

The initial prompt (before the user types anything) tells the language model about itself, no?
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