Google Opens Up Access to Bard AI Chatbot

[haruhiko]

Meet Bard: your creative and helpful collaborator, here to supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and bring your ideas to life.

Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

 

[haruhiko]

Hackers are creating malware with ChatGPT and others are writing phishing emails. I get the optimism but there is a reason we can’t have nice things. People suck…

People are stabbing people with knives…and setting fire to people’s home… I get the optimism with us being able to make fire and to have knives, but there’s a reason we can’t have good things…

By the way, I think the current AIs have very strong censorship, rather than too little.

 

[BigMcGuire]

Signed up this morning and got an acceptance email about 10 mins later.

Having used Chat GPT 3, 3.5, and 4 (Bing) - Bard is a huge disappointment. The site crashed for me a lot saying I didn't have internet connection when I did, erasing the question I typed - for over half the questions I asked.

The other half - a vast majority of them it said it was out of its capability to answer - questions that Chat GPT had no problem understanding and responding to.

It also got a lot more questions wrong (made up answers) than chat GPT did in the bit of time I spent with it.

I'd rate it a lot worse than OpenAI's version.

 

[JimmyHook]

Generative AI is like VR in the 90s. We have all the hype, some rudimentary prototypes… but there’s an entire industry of people lying about how good it is currently. Sorry, it’s smoldering pile of garbage right now.

 

[v0lume4]

Mark my words, Google will roll out this functionality into Google Assistant within a few years. At that point, we will have an assistant that can actually converse back and forth. Think of the AI in the movie Her.

It won't ACTUALLY be smart and sentient like in the movie, but it will converse in such a way to appear so. I'm not saying this will be a good thing for humanity (this stuff freaks me out). But it'll be crazy when it happens. Like I said, probably just a few years off.

 

[yegon]

Cancelled 1Password sub.

 

[rtkane]

I can't wait for the Siri version of AI to be directly integrated into iOS. Unfortunately, though, AI will probably stand for "Artificial Idiot" in Siri's case.

 

[mrgraff]

Geez, does everybody need to have their own AI chatbot? This is turning into the "fried chicken breast sandwich with pickles on a buttered brioche bun" of the Tech world.

 

[CarAnalogy]

We need an ai that sources its data from reputable books and universities only. That’d truly be a game changer.

Google has been scanning books with Google Books for decades, you’d think they would be all over that. Probably lots of legal issues though.

 

[klasma]

Well, that’s hilarious, Bard thinks it has already been shutdown by Google due to lack of adoption:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1638289186351456257

 

[svish]

Looks like Bing is superior at the moment. But it should improve in the future.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Too little, too late. Google execs must be pooping themselves right now. If Apple should be concerned about the impact of AI on users, then Google should be terrified.

 

[JippaLippa]

Between doing a deal with two devils (metaphorically speaking), I'd still take Microsoft over Google.

Even disregarding how chatGPT is the better option (at least for now), I'm trying to remove Google from my existence as much as possible (I only use Gmail and Youtube); with regards to Microsoft I don't love the company, but I already use some of their services, like the gamepass or the microsoft account for rewards and WIN11's authentication (not to mention Linkedin).

If I had to adopt an AI, I'd rather have it being from Microsoft than Google or (god forbid) Amazon or Meta.
Ideally I'd stick with an Apple solution, but I don't see our dear investing much into AI at the very moment.

 

[tadasZ]

"Not supported in your country" sorry google, sad you're thinking i can't write or understand english

 

[TechGuy327]

Bard. Who comes up with these names?

Maybe they think all its responses will be poetry.

 

[redbeard331]

We are on the precipice of a major technological leap. Specialized AIs will soon emerge and then eventually consolidate. The improvements with each iteration are going to rapidly accelerate. I’m very optimistic with what this could do to world’s GDP, but also efficiency in terms of environmental sustainability. There will surely be some dystopian effects of this technology, but the good outweighs the bad.

Until it kills us all.

 

[dogstar]

First, Bard? What kinda name is that?

Secondly, Google Bard can’t write a function that adds two numbers.

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I actually got it to write code for me on the second try. It programmed a todo list on dart for web. I haven’t had a chance to test it yet but it looked pretty good. But overall, it’s say it’s pretty weak at this point.

i’d rate the llms, #1) ChatGPT 4, #2) Bing, #3) (and fairly far back) Bard.

it couldn’t even handle pulling prices for multiple stocks. If you ask for one stock, it seems to work, but then if you ask for the prices of say ten stocks, it pulls really old prices.

I would not trust anything Bard spits out at this point to be honest.

 

[redbeard331]

One person uses a chatbot to read a bunch of work emails and writes an AI generated response.

Then that person does the same and replies with another AI generated response.

Pretty soon it's just chatbots replying to other chatbots.

🤣

What if, eventually this happens, and the bots get really pissed off at each other, so they start hacking into speakers on every connected device on Earth? And then they just argue nonstop at full volume, sending people into the streets to get away from the noise? Will we be able to unplug it?

 

[macduke]

Begun, the AI Wars have.

 

[Eldaerenth Faexidor]

This **** is going hard. I have a bad feeling about this. AI needs regulating to ensure it's operating within the public interest. Otherwise this is not going to end well for society.

 

[StellarVixen]

This **** is going hard. I have a bad feeling about this. AI needs regulating to ensure it's operating within the public interest. Otherwise this is not going to end well for society.

Can you explain to me what have you seen in ChatGPT and Bard that needs regulation? In what ways is something like this a menace to society?

I seriously do not understand all these cries for regulation.

“It can spew racist stuff” - as if racism doesn’t exist already, machine generated racism is reflection of ourselves because it was trained on some racist data.

“It is biased” - good that we can notice bias then and disregard biased answers.

“People can make deep fakes.” - don’t believe anything you see on the Internet, this has been the problem even before.

Everyone calling for “regulation” seem to think that this is “Skynet” or something similar. It is nowhere near that.

 

[shapesinaframe]

.."imagine it having the all the microfilms of newspapers from the beginning of the 20th century so you could ask what the weather was like in New York when the Hindenburg Zeppelin exploded or what was the top 10 headlines in newspapers the day the Titanic sank.

no need to imagine, just ask it

 

[NEPOBABY]

Can you explain to me what have you seen in ChatGPT and Bard that needs regulation? In what ways is something like this a menace to society?

I seriously do not understand all these cries for regulation.

“It can spew racist stuff” - as if racism doesn’t exist already, machine generated racism is reflection of ourselves because it was trained on some racist data.

“It is biased” - good that we can notice bias then and disregard biased answers.

“People can make deep fakes.” - don’t believe anything you see on the Internet, this has been the problem even before.

Everyone calling for “regulation” seem to think that this is “Skynet” or something similar. It is nowhere near that.

There is nothing that exists in mainstream that doesn't need regulation in some form, especially tools that can be used maliciously. We have traffic lights, lines on the road, speed limits and seat belts for a reason.

Governments and media orgs should not be allowed to deliberately sow the web with misinfo and fake videos. We have already seen what can happen just with Facebook.

 

[StellarVixen]

There is nothing that exists in mainstream that doesn't need regulation in some form, especially tools that can be used maliciously. We have traffic lights, lines on the road, speed limits and seat belts for a reason.

Governments and media orgs should not be allowed to deliberately sow the web with misinfo and fake videos. We have already seen what can happen just with Facebook.

Spare me the analogies, please.

Sounds to me like you are arguing for holding the governments and media orgs accountable, to that I might agree. But media does not need ChatGPT to sow disinfo.

Let these tools do what they are made to do. Judge the people who misuse them.

 

[NEPOBABY]

Spare me the analogies, please.

Sounds to me like you are arguing for holding the governments and media orgs accountable, to that I might agree. But media does not need ChatGPT to sow disinfo.

Let these tools do what they are made to do. Judge the people who misuse them.

No I won't spare you analogies. Cry all you want. Regulations will come.

Want to know something funny. Bard thinks Google should face stronger regulation 😂😂😂