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Google announces future launch of Bard, ChatGPT rival
- jossclimb 4y agoTo launch something, surely it should be available?
- thrill 4y agoThey're testing precancellation.
- therein 4y agoI can't wait to not integrate with their service because of how they will be deprecating Bard in 2024, launching Dylan and Hex, basically the same products but by two different teams, neither doing what people used Bard for as well as Bard did.
- woleium 4y agoit's funny because it's true
- dang 4y agoYes. We've switched the title to one suggested by a user via email. Thanks, emailing user! I was very tempted to say "announces an announcement" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22announcement%20of%20an%20announcement%22 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) but self-calmed.
- dredmorbius 4y agoResist resisting temptation sometimes, dang ;-)
- ChrisLTD 4y agoIs there a URL we can visit to use Bard?
- TOMDM 4y agoFrom the first sentence of the article: "Bard will be used to a group of testers before being rolled out to the public in the coming weeks, the firm said."
- TOMDM 4y agoHere's a link to Google's announcement https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/ https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...
- bhouston 4y agoWhere can I use it?
- babuskov 4y agoThis makes me wonder if Google is about to have its Internet Explorer vs Netscape Navigator moment? ChatGPT isn't there yet, but I can see it replacing Google search in the future. Just like Linux never won the desktop, but Android replaced Windows by numbers, it's quite possible that the old way we search the open web will be replaced by a different model. An AI that answers all your questions. The timing is good, because Google search is getting worse every year, mostly due to SEO spam. Having tools like ChatGPT feels like SEO spam will get even easier to generate and harder to detect. ChatGPT plans to charge for usage, and that could be their biggest mistake. If I were Google, I would jump on this, make my own version and give it away for free until all competition runs out of money. Gradually add ads on top of it and keep the leading position. They can even use their dominant position with Android and Chrome to make their AI the default "AI engine". If you feel like they stand no chance, remember that Internet Explorer won and used to be the default for years and years.
- anotheryou 4y agonothing "launched"
- greenyoda 4y agoBig discussion of the original source, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34682340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34682340
- 0xbadc0de5 4y agoThe Machine versus Samaritan.
- ilaksh 4y agoBard is actually not launched to the public at all, they just made a PR announcement and are picking up some extra testers so their PR can have a grain of truth to it. They seem to be giving access to an API for a small group of individuals or companies they have chosen. Which seems like nepotism and very unfair to me. Although OpenAI did it initially also. But.. some people may not be aware but some of the key Google researchers started their own company awhile ago called https://character.ai https://character.ai which has an amazing large language model. Not as generally useful as the OpenAI models but still amazingly humanlike and fun. I think basically the character.ai people looked at the tendency of these things to hallucinate and lack of citing sources and decided it was more appropriate for simulating fictional characters.
- squalo 4y agoWait for us, we're the leader
- voisin 4y agoI can’t wait until it asks me between every sentence if I finally want to upgrade to YouTube premium. My decision might have changed in the last three breaths.