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Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

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Re: Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

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Post by bko »

I've been using ChatGPT a lot for various tasks and found the results very helpful. There are often errors but errors that I would make. With non programming tasks it can sometimes be word association and misstate the concept but it's almost always helpful and again the mistakes are reasonable.

When I asked Bard to list the months in alphabetical order, it failed to do so. I saw this on a tweet but confirmed that it can't sort the moths. Gpt passes. When you fail such a simple comprehension i lose faith in anything more complex where the incorrect results wouldn't be as obvious. I'm surprised they released this in such a state. My guess is they're panicking to reply. I can imagine simple queries like this weren't tested

Re: Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

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Post by FooBarWidget »

anonyfox wrote: post #4

Too little too late, and even the wrong focus topic to survive as a company. Google is done. No one cares anymore what google does, its either inferior to alternatives and/or on the graveyard soon anyways. Time to move on.

4 months after ChatGPT is "too little too late"? Where does this entitlement come from?

Re: Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

#7

Post by anonyfox »

bko wrote: post #5

I've been using ChatGPT a lot for various tasks and found the results very helpful. There are often errors but errors that I would make. With non programming tasks it can sometimes be word association and misstate the concept but it's almost always helpful and again the mistakes are reasonable. When I asked Bard to list the months in alphabetical order, it failed to do so. I saw this on a tweet but confirmed that it…

> My guess is they're panicking to reply

this is what I don't believe anymore. Its strictly inferior and people should stop looking for defensive arguments and all that.

If it is simply a smaller/cheaper/less parametrized model than the competitor ones thats a fine explanation, but also admits being inferior in exchange for being cheaper to run.

Re: Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

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Post by agilob »

FooBarWidget wrote: post #6
anonyfox wrote: post #4

Too little too late, and even the wrong focus topic to survive as a company. Google is done. No one cares anymore what google does, its either inferior to alternatives and/or on the graveyard soon anyways. Time to move on.

4 months after ChatGPT is "too little too late"? Where does this entitlement come from?

There were like at least 60 LLama and alpaca releases in the last 3 weeks! Google needs to be at least 3x better!!

Re: Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

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Post by hgsgm »

anonyfox wrote: post #7
bko wrote: post #5

I've been using ChatGPT a lot for various tasks and found the results very helpful. There are often errors but errors that I would make. With non programming tasks it can sometimes be word association and misstate the concept but it's almost always helpful and again the mistakes are reasonable. When I asked Bard to list the months in alphabetical order, it failed to do so. I saw this on a tweet but confirmed that it…

> My guess is they're panicking to reply this is what I don't believe anymore. Its strictly inferior and people should stop looking for defensive arguments and all that. If it is simply a smaller/cheaper/less parametrized model than the competitor ones thats a fine explanation, but also admits being inferior in exchange for being cheaper to run.

"they launched a worse product out of desperation" isn't a defensive argument, it's an indictment.
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