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"The new A.I. chatbot will be available to a limited number of users in the United States and Britain and will accommodate additional users, countries and langu

"The new A.I. chatbot will be available to a limited number of users in the United States and Britain and will accommodate additional users, countries and languages over time, Google executives said in an interview." So no, no they didn't release it.

dmix 4y ago
> But Google is taking a much more circumspect approach than its competitors, which have faced criticism that they are proliferating an unpredictable and sometimes untrustworthy technology. It's interesting how they use the AI ethics excuse. Maybe the real problem is that there's isn't as good as the competition, or to their own standards, and they are being careful not to damage their brand by being so behind.
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  +1 Google track record tells us they have no problem with with blurry ethic lines. They create the software for weapons, track the entire planet and were part of PRISM. So yes, I tend to think your explanation is most likely.
  - dlubarov 4y ago
    > They create the software for weapons If you're thinking of Project Maven, that ended in 2019, so I would use past tense. > were part of PRISM As I understand it, the NSA was snooping on Google's internal traffic between services. Google was not complicit, at least there's no evidence of that.
    - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM "PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC"
      - dlubarov 4y ago
        You said "were" part of PRISM, so I thought you were thinking of the related MUSCULAR program, where "GCHQ and the NSA have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR). Presumably Google's deployment of TLS for internal traffic after the Snowden leaks put an end to that. If you're thinking of PRISM itself, I'm not sure in what sense Google is "part of" it? Google sometimes provides data in response to court orders, but there's not much they can do about that.
- tannhauser23 4y ago
  They're setting up a regulatory fight.
- NicoJuicy 4y ago
  +1 Google was sitting on this since 2017. Ethics and possible business interruption are both very good reasons for them to be safe. And since they released the paper, i think ethics was a much bigger concern than I'd normally think. Hell, even they don't even fully understand the math behind it since it was found by AI as far as I know. Microsoft and OpenAI benefiting from it feels a bit off.
judge2020 4y ago
I joined the waitlist 24 minutes after this was posted to HN, then got accepted into Bard 1h30m later.

dmix 4y ago

> But Google is taking a much more circumspect approach than its competitors, which have faced criticism that they are proliferating an unpredictable and sometimes untrustworthy technology. It's interesting how they use the AI ethics excuse. Maybe the real problem is that there's isn't as good as the competition, or to their own standards, and they are being careful not to damage their brand by being so behind.

BiteCode_dev 4y ago
+1 Google track record tells us they have no problem with with blurry ethic lines. They create the software for weapons, track the entire planet and were part of PRISM. So yes, I tend to think your explanation is most likely.
- dlubarov 4y ago
  > They create the software for weapons If you're thinking of Project Maven, that ended in 2019, so I would use past tense. > were part of PRISM As I understand it, the NSA was snooping on Google's internal traffic between services. Google was not complicit, at least there's no evidence of that.
  - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM "PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC"
    - dlubarov 4y ago
      You said "were" part of PRISM, so I thought you were thinking of the related MUSCULAR program, where "GCHQ and the NSA have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo! and Google" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR). Presumably Google's deployment of TLS for internal traffic after the Snowden leaks put an end to that. If you're thinking of PRISM itself, I'm not sure in what sense Google is "part of" it? Google sometimes provides data in response to court orders, but there's not much they can do about that.
tannhauser23 4y ago
They're setting up a regulatory fight.
NicoJuicy 4y ago
+1 Google was sitting on this since 2017. Ethics and possible business interruption are both very good reasons for them to be safe. And since they released the paper, i think ethics was a much bigger concern than I'd normally think. Hell, even they don't even fully understand the math behind it since it was found by AI as far as I know. Microsoft and OpenAI benefiting from it feels a bit off.

judge2020 4y ago

I joined the waitlist 24 minutes after this was posted to HN, then got accepted into Bard 1h30m later.