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Re: Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services

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Post by htrp » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 2:24 AM UTC

dustymcp wrote: post #73

_ea1k wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, exactly. Integration is where the real power of these agents can live. I really want an agent that can help me with pretty simple tasks - Hey agent, remember this link and that it is about hyper fast, solar powered, vine ripened, retroencabulators. - Hey agent, remember that me and Bob Retal talked about stories JIRA-42 and JIRA-72 and we agreed to take actions XYZ - Hey agent, schedule a zoom meeting with Joe i…

oh so a working google assistant? :)

I think they tuned down the model because TPUs are needed for actual AI work

Re: Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services

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Post by JuanPosadas » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 3:48 PM UTC

Decabytes wrote: post #68

Still waiting for bard to add an api so we can start building tools based on their model

There already available in GCP under Vertex AI, there are a lot of APIs/models.

Re: Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services

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Post by mayop100 » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 5:56 PM UTC

Bard's integration with Gmail is extremely basic -- it's just using regular Gmail search to include a few relevant emails in its prompt and then trying to answer your question. There's no AI on the email side.

We launched a much more capable Gmail + AI assistant this morning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585990#37586627

We're using embeddings + vector DB + x-encoder + GPT4 to deliver a much smarter & capable assistant.

Re: Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services

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Post by labrador » Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 8:03 PM UTC

CTDOCodebases wrote: post #4

Bard is so terrible. I can’t imagine anyone is actually using it based on my experience.

Have you tried the latest upgrade dropped 2 days ago? It's much better.

Re: Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services

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Post by singularity2001 » Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 3:03 AM UTC

_ea1k wrote: post #67

typpo wrote: post #28

"Extensions" and integration into the rest of the Google ecosystem could be how Bard wins at the end of the day. There are many tasks where I'd prefer an integration with my email/docs over a slightly smarter LLM. Unlike ChatGPT plugins, Google has the luxury of finetuning its model for each of their integrations. The new feature for enriching outputs with citations from Google Search is also pretty cool.

Yes, exactly. Integration is where the real power of these agents can live. I really want an agent that can help me with pretty simple tasks - Hey agent, remember this link and that it is about hyper fast, solar powered, vine ripened, retroencabulators. - Hey agent, remember that me and Bob Retal talked about stories JIRA-42 and JIRA-72 and we agreed to take actions XYZ - Hey agent, schedule a zoom meeting with Joe i…

Having to explicitly say "remember that" is so anachronistic. Of cause computers (should) remember everything.