Exactly this is why I always get mad when people are like Why didn't you use Google?. Because maybe they wanted to "talk" to actual people with experiences and stories beyond just the answer.
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Google Adding 'Bard' Chatbot to Google Search, While Microsoft Debuts Updated ChatGPT Technology for Bing
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More people are looking for information and complex concepts and not a text string on a website which has long been gamed by SEO marketers that they then have to evaluate for relevance and context.
Easy, you ask, you get an answer, you elaborate on that, you get more info.
If indeed Google summons a great Ai and incorporate it into google assistant and in the Android system like Microsoft wants to do with Office and Windows, then Apple can as well become a car company and leave the operating systems for those who are serious about ‘em.
“Computer, launch photon torpedos!”
“Sorry, you don’t seem to have an app with that name installed. Here’s what I found in the ship’s library about ‘proton tornados’.”
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Give me a good reason why I would ask ChatGPT what is the weather like outside or what it will be like in the following few days instead of just opening a weather app?
I am not downplaying the usefulness of tools like these, but some use cases mentioned here are questionable.
You won’t believe the stories it’ll tell you!
What I found funny in the entry for “bard” on Wikipedia, in the present context: “a bard is […] employed by a patron […] to praise the patron's own activities.”
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It is relevant because Siri is still so stupid.
Isn’t this literally the plot of that AI killer robot movie where its user used his version of Google (blue gene?) to mine human thinking patterns and then makes the killer robot who kills him.
Current AI has already been demonstrated to be heavily biased. I am not sure what use a racist chat bot is but given how the creators didn’t even realize how biased their creations are it should be no problem to needlessly create bots of every persuasion.
This whole thing about AI has just shot out of the cannon and my only thought is can we slow it down so the machines don't attack us like the Cylons or Terminators? Have people not watched Dystopian TV/Movies in the past? I mean what's the rush.
This is the point in history where conversational AI tools are ruined by ads, tracking, and the other things that ruined search.
Meanwhile, Apple is thinking how to milk the cow further; with Ultra this, Pro that.
Where is Apple on this competition?
ChatGPT works better than Siri, also Siri is not great outside US country and english language. ChatGPT should be integrated with Siri (for all world).
Is Apple getting lost the AI decade?
ChatGPT works better than Siri, also Siri is not great outside US country and english language. ChatGPT should be integrated with Siri (for all world).
Is Apple getting lost the AI decade?
Why not Siri? Ostensibly Siri already does this, poorly.
Hopefully this AI hype lately will finally kick Apple's butt into gear about being serious about Siri.
My response is that the “AI decade” is largely overblown, and I think too many people are mistakenly attaching AI to just chatGPT, a technology which I feel is overrated.
From Apple’s perspective, Tim Cook did mention they view Crash detection, fall detection and ECG are examples of AI. While not perfect, they have helped save lives, and Apple is uniquely positioned to implement them in a manner that is human-first and not the other way around.
I am reminded of smart speakers, where pundits claimed would be the new era of computing, but they didn’t go anywhere, and Amazon lost a ton of money.
My take is that Apple doesn’t need to hop on this AI bandwagon, they will go on to do just fine, and we should just sit back and watch chatGPT (and its equivalents) misfire for the competition.
Google took a great product, Google Search, and have basically now renamed it to Bard with this next generation of search. Terrible.
Microsoft took a terrible product with a stupid name, Bing, and have basically now given it the exact same identity.
Google should've called it something similar. Even "Google Advanced Search" sounds better. Microsoft should've renamed it. Bing sucks and nobody uses it. Even DuckDuckGo is my primary browser and I only fall back to Google when I can't find something, which is becoming a rare occasion. Give Microsoft's search a fresh new life with a new name. Strike while the iron is hot! ChatGPT is huge right now.
Microsoft took a terrible product with a stupid name, Bing, and have basically now given it the exact same identity.
Google should've called it something similar. Even "Google Advanced Search" sounds better. Microsoft should've renamed it. Bing sucks and nobody uses it. Even DuckDuckGo is my primary browser and I only fall back to Google when I can't find something, which is becoming a rare occasion. Give Microsoft's search a fresh new life with a new name. Strike while the iron is hot! ChatGPT is huge right now.