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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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$today + 1 year: "Google shuts down Bard, its AI chatbot"

Just asked chatgpt to write it.

Google recently announced that they will be shutting down Google Bard, their new AI-powered writing tool, after less than six months since its launch. The tool, which used natural language processing to help users write poetry and song lyrics, was met with mixed reviews and failed to gain significant traction among users. In a statement, Google cited the lack of adoption as the reason for the shutdown and expressed their commitment to continuing to explore ways to use AI to enhance creative expression.

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

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"Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18." Why specify both conditions - if google isnt sure which one of "under 18" or "logged in with a paid account" it is then they are not putting their best on the job.

Not if just something like an internal error code "AccountNotSupported" is returned. Then the product owner wanted a more specific error message, and the developer complained this would require much more time adapting 5 microservices handling the new error code, so eventually they landed on a simple text change.

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I received an early access email yesterday via the Google Pixel program, but the page just seems to break when I load it. I get a bunch of 404's in the developer console and the page apologizes for being broken. Edit: Well I've gotten in now. I think it's definitely not as good as ChatGPT right now. It seems to have a really hard time referring back to previous moments in the chat for context. A lot of its responses…

Welcome to Google.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

use a vpn?

eh don’t need, it’s google so we know it sucks compared to GPT.

We know raw LaMDA sucks compared to GPT, but we also know that a lot of the performance of GPT3.5, GPT4 and ChatGPT comes from the reinforcement learning added on top of raw GPT, so it will be interesting how Bard performs.
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