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I find the image results to be rather impressive. Or to be more precise, I feel like Bard is much much closer to changing "search" than chatGPT or Bing given th

I find the image results to be rather impressive. Or to be more precise, I feel like Bard is much much closer to changing "search" than chatGPT or Bing given the results I'm looking at. To give an example. I gave it an image of a television listing from some time in 1996. It was for a television film fashioned from a two part episode of The Commish called Father Image. It correctly got all the information from the image, identified it as a TV movie based on an episode of a television show, and most impressively I think claimed that the tv show played on December 7, 1995. That wasn't when the listing was from, but that is the air date of the episode of the television show. It is clearly using other bits of information (IMDb information about air dates I imagine) and effectively doing multiple db fetches / searches in the background to flesh out the information it is giving back. That is precisely what I want from a "new" style of search. Give it something simple and give me a bunch of curated information which otherwise would have taken multiple Google searches / diving into links to determine. Fun stuff.

roseway4 3y ago
Bard's multimodal abilities are impressive. It's worth noting that PaLM 2 does not offer multimodal capabilities, and your experience here, as you suggested, likely leans on Google's long history of building search across both text and image data. In a reasoning and creativity shootout, I'm not convinced Palm 2 (and Bard) fairs well against Claude v2 and GPT-3.5. Is anybody aware of Palm 2 being used in production other than with Bard? I see companies building and deploying with Claude* but have yet to come across Palm 2 users. * I've fielded several requests to add Claude 2 API support to Zep, an open source memory store I co-authored. https://github.com/getzep/zep https://github.com/getzep/zep
- brianjking 3y ago
  Did Google ever indicate if this image multimodal ability is coming to the PaLM2 API?
- PeterStuer 3y ago
  "I'm not convinced Palm 2 (and Bard) fairs well against Claude v2 and GPT-3.5." From very early tests it seems hard to compare. On 'general' questions it is certainly less capable than ChatGPT-3.5, and not even in the same ballgame as GPT-4. But if it needs to integrate recent data without much elaboration, it is better than GPT-4 with linkreader plugin or the instance running on Bing. So I'd say it is more a shot across Bing's bow rather than an ChatGPT rival at this point.
theonlybutlet 3y ago
I've found the image feature is hallucinating to a large extent. It feels impressive but it's an illusion. Very close as it identifies the broader object and discusses things related to that object but hallucinates if you actually ask it anything else more specific. Thats something google lens could do.

roseway4 3y ago

Bard's multimodal abilities are impressive. It's worth noting that PaLM 2 does not offer multimodal capabilities, and your experience here, as you suggested, likely leans on Google's long history of building search across both text and image data. In a reasoning and creativity shootout, I'm not convinced Palm 2 (and Bard) fairs well against Claude v2 and GPT-3.5. Is anybody aware of Palm 2 being used in production other than with Bard? I see companies building and deploying with Claude* but have yet to come across Palm 2 users. * I've fielded several requests to add Claude 2 API support to Zep, an open source memory store I co-authored. https://github.com/getzep/zep https://github.com/getzep/zep

brianjking 3y ago
Did Google ever indicate if this image multimodal ability is coming to the PaLM2 API?
PeterStuer 3y ago
"I'm not convinced Palm 2 (and Bard) fairs well against Claude v2 and GPT-3.5." From very early tests it seems hard to compare. On 'general' questions it is certainly less capable than ChatGPT-3.5, and not even in the same ballgame as GPT-4. But if it needs to integrate recent data without much elaboration, it is better than GPT-4 with linkreader plugin or the instance running on Bing. So I'd say it is more a shot across Bing's bow rather than an ChatGPT rival at this point.

theonlybutlet 3y ago

I've found the image feature is hallucinating to a large extent. It feels impressive but it's an illusion. Very close as it identifies the broader object and discusses things related to that object but hallucinates if you actually ask it anything else more specific. Thats something google lens could do.