Google needs to layoff many more people. The ineptitude of their efforts here feels like it's caused by having too many people and too much process involved.

Google needs to layoff many more people. The ineptitude of their efforts here feels like it's caused by having too many people and too much process involved. What would a minimalist team of empowered people working on this project do? My initial experience with ChatGPT, months ago, was - go to website, use product. I was impressed and it kept getting better. Improvements to usability, better models, etc. I'm a paying ChatGPT+ user and I have the new Bing and I think it's amazing. Contrast that with Bard. Google has a huge headstart, way more resources, way more people. We know from Blake Lemoine that they had a version of this a while ago. My experience is that I get an email saying I'm invited to try Bard. I figure I must have signed up for the beta and forgotten about it so I click the link eager to see what Bard is like, and... they meant I was "invited" to sign up for a waitlist. I go see what people are saying online, and it seems like Bard is worse (which I've also heard from friends at Google). It's just genuinely pathetic from Google that they launch products like this and I think it would be much better if the people responsible were fired so they stop ruining productivity. Google should have launched this a year ago as wide as possible and iteratively improved the product. If they had, we would have much better models now. Instead, Google is choose to lose this race even though it is likely an existential one for their company.