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$today + 1 year: "Google shuts down Bard, its AI chatbot"

by baggachipz 4y ago

taeric 4y ago
I laughed; but, this is truly a sad state of the trust in them. :(
Oarch 4y ago
Why not generate and post the article ahead of time!
- deleted 4y ago
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- seydor 4y ago
  https://citymeme.com/post/63887 https://citymeme.com/post/63887
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xeromal 4y ago
Just asked chatgpt to write it. Google recently announced that they will be shutting down Google Bard, their new AI-powered writing tool, after less than six months since its launch. The tool, which used natural language processing to help users write poetry and song lyrics, was met with mixed reviews and failed to gain significant traction among users. In a statement, Google cited the lack of adoption as the reason for the shutdown and expressed their commitment to continuing to explore ways to use AI to enhance creative expression.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  Nah - 2 years, because that's the amount of time you can juice a new project on a promo packet.
  - xeromal 4y ago
    ChatGPT chose the timeline. haha
- srinikhilr 4y ago
  Congratulations! This exact text just made BARD think it is actually shut down. https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257
  - xeromal 4y ago
    That is kind of incredible habahaha
  - DavidSJ 4y ago
    And now Bing is citing that as well: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft...
- etienne-martin 4y ago
  I asked chatgpt to make it a full article and posted it on my satirical tech news website. I'm curious to see if Bing or Bard end up using it as a source. https://thetechtrout.com/story/google-bard-shutdown https://thetechtrout.com/story/google-bard-shutdown
dang 4y ago
Please don't post shallow, dismissive clichés. They're repetitive and therefore the opposite of what we want here. You may not owe faceless BigCorps better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sergiomattei 4y ago
  The parent comment just reached legendary status: https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 Hall of fame level here. This is hilarious.
  - chatmasta 4y ago
    Put me in the screenshot, I mean the hallucinated Bard response.
  - dang 4y ago
    It would be even more hilarious if mod scoldings made it rate the parent higher. But the text it quoted was from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247109 - maybe it treats subthreads as a single thing? It's pretty funny that ChatGPT trolled Bard.
- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  Can you elaborate on what you found wrong with the above comment?
  - dang 4y ago
    Reflexive "Google will just shut it down" reactions were already a cliché 10 years ago. It's been tedious for a long time, and therefore is not driven by curiosity, and curiosity is what we're optimizing for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... Google really does shut things down—I know! But for a good HN comment, it's not enough to say something true—one should say something true that hasn't been repeated a thousand times already. --- How'd I do? Apparently I'm being recorded.
neaden 4y ago
Bard read this and now thinks it's shut down: https://mobile.twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 https://mobile.twitter.com/juanbuis/status/16382891863514562...
- NelsonMinar 4y ago
  The really remarkable thing is Bard learned something new within 6 hours. Is that unique to Google's model or does ChatGPT have quick updates too?
  - rymiel 4y ago
    Unlike ChatGPT, and like Bing, Bard makes search queries for extra context before answering. Of course, that leads to things like this where they can find articles referring to themselves, which also happened with Bing.
    - bitL 4y ago
      Do you know the details? Are they having a question answering model hidden inside that evaluates context returned from search and then ask Bard to rephrase it and merge with its generative hallucinations?
      - supermdguy 4y ago
        Probably something along those lines, here’s a similar system: https://react-lm.github.io/ https://react-lm.github.io/
  - lyu07282 4y ago
    It's actually a bit disturbing that it just believes whatever it finds, really no concern for what is a reliable source? Like at all? What did google work on then for all these years of secrecy? Couldn't they have released this thing years ago? I did expect bard to be awful but not that awful, embarrassing. I suspect Bard is a small variant of their best model it seems too significantly behind, they must've severely crippled it. It can't even decode morse code, gpt4 can even draw you an SVG and encode it in base64, for example.

$today + 1 year: "Google shuts down Bard, its AI chatbot"

taeric 4y ago

I laughed; but, this is truly a sad state of the trust in them. :(

Oarch 4y ago

Why not generate and post the article ahead of time!

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seydor 4y ago
https://citymeme.com/post/63887 https://citymeme.com/post/63887

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xeromal 4y ago

Just asked chatgpt to write it. Google recently announced that they will be shutting down Google Bard, their new AI-powered writing tool, after less than six months since its launch. The tool, which used natural language processing to help users write poetry and song lyrics, was met with mixed reviews and failed to gain significant traction among users. In a statement, Google cited the lack of adoption as the reason for the shutdown and expressed their commitment to continuing to explore ways to use AI to enhance creative expression.

londons_explore 4y ago
Nah - 2 years, because that's the amount of time you can juice a new project on a promo packet.
- xeromal 4y ago
  ChatGPT chose the timeline. haha
srinikhilr 4y ago
Congratulations! This exact text just made BARD think it is actually shut down. https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257
- xeromal 4y ago
  That is kind of incredible habahaha
- DavidSJ 4y ago
  And now Bing is citing that as well: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft...
etienne-martin 4y ago
I asked chatgpt to make it a full article and posted it on my satirical tech news website. I'm curious to see if Bing or Bard end up using it as a source. https://thetechtrout.com/story/google-bard-shutdown https://thetechtrout.com/story/google-bard-shutdown

dang 4y ago

Please don't post shallow, dismissive clichés. They're repetitive and therefore the opposite of what we want here. You may not owe faceless BigCorps better but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

sergiomattei 4y ago
The parent comment just reached legendary status: https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 https://twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 Hall of fame level here. This is hilarious.
- chatmasta 4y ago
  Put me in the screenshot, I mean the hallucinated Bard response.
- dang 4y ago
  It would be even more hilarious if mod scoldings made it rate the parent higher. But the text it quoted was from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247109 - maybe it treats subthreads as a single thing? It's pretty funny that ChatGPT trolled Bard.
eyelidlessness 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what you found wrong with the above comment?
- dang 4y ago
  Reflexive "Google will just shut it down" reactions were already a cliché 10 years ago. It's been tedious for a long time, and therefore is not driven by curiosity, and curiosity is what we're optimizing for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... Google really does shut things down—I know! But for a good HN comment, it's not enough to say something true—one should say something true that hasn't been repeated a thousand times already. --- How'd I do? Apparently I'm being recorded.

neaden 4y ago

Bard read this and now thinks it's shut down: https://mobile.twitter.com/juanbuis/status/1638289186351456257 https://mobile.twitter.com/juanbuis/status/16382891863514562...

NelsonMinar 4y ago
The really remarkable thing is Bard learned something new within 6 hours. Is that unique to Google's model or does ChatGPT have quick updates too?
- rymiel 4y ago
  Unlike ChatGPT, and like Bing, Bard makes search queries for extra context before answering. Of course, that leads to things like this where they can find articles referring to themselves, which also happened with Bing.
  - bitL 4y ago
    Do you know the details? Are they having a question answering model hidden inside that evaluates context returned from search and then ask Bard to rephrase it and merge with its generative hallucinations?
    - supermdguy 4y ago
      Probably something along those lines, here’s a similar system: https://react-lm.github.io/ https://react-lm.github.io/
- lyu07282 4y ago
  It's actually a bit disturbing that it just believes whatever it finds, really no concern for what is a reliable source? Like at all? What did google work on then for all these years of secrecy? Couldn't they have released this thing years ago? I did expect bard to be awful but not that awful, embarrassing. I suspect Bard is a small variant of their best model it seems too significantly behind, they must've severely crippled it. It can't even decode morse code, gpt4 can even draw you an SVG and encode it in base64, for example.