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Google is finally feeling the heat from their competitors and they are now relunctantly trying to move quicker. Amusing to watch.

aix1 4y ago
We're seen this before, with Google+.
- riku_iki 4y ago
  Google+ was raid on enemy's territory. Bard is attempt to defend own territory against existential threat.
  - aix1 4y ago
    I am not sure I agree. I think both were driven by fear.
strikelaserclaw 4y ago
i replaced google with chat gpt for a lot of my developer debug workflows.
strikelaserclaw 4y ago
i replaced google with chat gpt for a lot of my developer debug workflows. Love it, a single place which gives me (most times) the answer i'm looking for.
systemvoltage 4y ago
Question investors should be asking "Why didn't you guys come up with this first?"
- darkwizard42 4y ago
  I think most investors know or trust that this is what Google knows. "AI (as it stands today) will have a negative impact on their current cash cow (Ads)." If you are a trusting investor of Google, this is the only reasonable conclusion. If you don't trust Google to know what they are doing, then you would have bailed a while back after it was clear Sundar wasn't going to revolutionize growth (his role has mainly been keeping the ball rolling on Ads, Youtube, Cloud - whose strategy is pretty simple, grow grow grow at nearly any cost)
  - imiric 4y ago
    On the contrary. Ad revenue will only explode once advertisers can microtarget consumers with even more precision, thanks to the amount and quality of data voluntarily shared by users. Ad insertions will be even more sinister and manipulative, seamlessly embedded into the chatbot's responses. It will be like astroturfing, but automated and even cheaper. At the same time, expect the system to also be abused for political and propaganda purposes. Fun times ahead. Everyone concerned about this should think twice before using any proprietary chatbot service. Instead, use an open source solution you can self-host, tweak and have direct control over. This is already possible, if you're willing to sacrifice some quality (llama.cpp, Vicuna, etc.), and these systems are quickly improving.

aix1 4y ago

We're seen this before, with Google+.

riku_iki 4y ago
Google+ was raid on enemy's territory. Bard is attempt to defend own territory against existential threat.
- aix1 4y ago
  I am not sure I agree. I think both were driven by fear.

strikelaserclaw 4y ago

i replaced google with chat gpt for a lot of my developer debug workflows.

strikelaserclaw 4y ago

i replaced google with chat gpt for a lot of my developer debug workflows. Love it, a single place which gives me (most times) the answer i'm looking for.

systemvoltage 4y ago

Question investors should be asking "Why didn't you guys come up with this first?"

darkwizard42 4y ago
I think most investors know or trust that this is what Google knows. "AI (as it stands today) will have a negative impact on their current cash cow (Ads)." If you are a trusting investor of Google, this is the only reasonable conclusion. If you don't trust Google to know what they are doing, then you would have bailed a while back after it was clear Sundar wasn't going to revolutionize growth (his role has mainly been keeping the ball rolling on Ads, Youtube, Cloud - whose strategy is pretty simple, grow grow grow at nearly any cost)
- imiric 4y ago
  On the contrary. Ad revenue will only explode once advertisers can microtarget consumers with even more precision, thanks to the amount and quality of data voluntarily shared by users. Ad insertions will be even more sinister and manipulative, seamlessly embedded into the chatbot's responses. It will be like astroturfing, but automated and even cheaper. At the same time, expect the system to also be abused for political and propaganda purposes. Fun times ahead. Everyone concerned about this should think twice before using any proprietary chatbot service. Instead, use an open source solution you can self-host, tweak and have direct control over. This is already possible, if you're willing to sacrifice some quality (llama.cpp, Vicuna, etc.), and these systems are quickly improving.