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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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What would stop Google from making bard better than GPT over next few months. Google has got: 1. best data to train LLM 2. Best AI engineers 3. Money to spend on training hardware for LLM I wouldn't keep Google out of this GPT trend so easily

Sundar.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 I asked it to summarize new features from a technology website which its model had out of date knowledge, and it made me a diff of new things available.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…

This should be easy to test by pointing it to a server you control.

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

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I'm not very impressed either, just got to play around with it for a bit and so far is lagging way behind GPT-3. Still can't write code. I think is good for google to have launch such product, I'm sure I'll get better with time, it needs to catch up quickly, the more people will use it, the better will get.

It can generate code. It generated some FastAPI code and transferred some function from nodejs (that it generated). I find the generation a bit faster than GPT.

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I've noticed lately that my queries to Google Search have changed. They used to be precise keywords, but are now turning into descriptive questions. Keywords are not enough to express the context I want them to appear in, so just asking a question, like I'm doing with ChatGPT, seems more powerful. If the backend supports it. I really hope Google manages to integrate it into its search platform.

I've noticed that when I get frustrated not finding the answer to a programming question in Google, I've started moving to ChatGPT after a minute or so of searching, and so far it's gotten the answer every time. Google is in big trouble, IMO - both in terms of its flagship search product and its AI assistant.

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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)

Alternatively, use the account picker:

  https://accounts.google.com/SignOutOptions?continue=https://bard.google.com
Add:

   https://accounts.google.com/SignOutOptions?continue=
to any Google service to bring up this account picker.

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

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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.

Just use https://bard.google.com/?authuser=whatever@gmail.com and skip the number lookup entirely.

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Google spent years touting its leadership position in AI with DeepMind and Google Brain now its playing catch up and seems to be flailing around a bit Pichai really is just looking like a good-times placeholder CEO

Are you discounting the work on AlphaGo, AlphaFold, etc.? Google may be playing "catch up" in releasing these things as products, but remember that ChatGPT, etc. are all based on Google's paper on Transformers ("Attention is all you need").

How do you account for the apparent discrepancy between research and product? It's not like Google is low on resources when it comes to engineers or product managers. If ChatGPT owes so much to Google's research, then why is their product so far ahead?

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post #474

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

you have no guarantee that that specific information was included in the prompt
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