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Bard Extensions
- voiceblue 3y agoThe "extensions" link just leads to the bard homepage if you haven't both logged in and accepted terms.
- jay_kyburz 3y agoI'm logged in and accepted and it just takes me to my standard bard prompt.
- coder543 3y agoDo you have Bard history enabled?
- davidmurdoch 3y agoIf you arre logged in and gave accepted the terms but your primary Google account is a workspace account that doesn't have bard enabled it also redirects.
- Valgrim 3y agoOkay so after 8 months, after being released in 48 languages and 238 countries, for some reason, Bard still isn't available in Canada? This has to be a joke.
- parker_mountain 3y agoGoogle says "regulatory uncertainty". It sounds like they're unhappy with Canadian regulators. Be thankful your government is giving them enough grief.
- rishav_sharan 3y agoLikely the Quebec privacy laws which are gdpr equivalent in many cases. This forces tech companies to create a different experience for Quebec vs rest of Canada. As neither have enough user size, it's often easier to skip Canada altogether till the team has the spare bandwidth for this.
- jakderrida 3y ago>This forces tech companies to create a different experience for Quebec vs rest of Canada. That sort of seems like a needless barrier for companies. What is the precedent for that? It almost seems like those in Quebec have established some sort of "We're different, so everyone must suffer" constitutional amendment. But then again, I have no clue.
- tomComb 3y agoThe government is involved in a shakedown of Google for the benefit of bell and Rogers (whose lobbyists wrote it). I’m glad they are pushing back. There is a law professor at U of Ottawa who is generally considered the most expert and independent on these topics and he has been blowing the whistle on this bill c-18. Michael Geist. Rogers and bell have quite the grip on our governments but this one really takes the cake.
- zitterbewegung 3y agoOpenAI has the luxury of being something like a startup while google really doesn’t want to make a project that costs them. I use OpenAI as a tool but there is so much information that is inadvertently captured your regulators are doing the right thing.
- smoyer 3y agoWhat is a Canada? More seriously, is there some regulatory reason that makes releasing it in Canada more difficult?
- m3kw9 3y agoYet OpenAI is supported in canada
- starshadowx2 3y agoThe Canadian government is picking a fight with Google, Meta, and others right now so that's likely why Google is withholding something like this to help create some pressure.
- praylee 3y agoI always wanted to say the same thing. I don't understand why chatgpt doesn't have the "regulatory issue" at all.
- mkoryak 3y agoMaybe it doesn't know how to speak Canadian yet?
- okdood64 3y agoBlame your government. And I don't mean that in a hostile way. People need to temper their expectations when using a product that is in the crosshairs of their government. Alphabet and Meta aren't startups and they have tangible regulatory obligations.
- MattyMc 3y agoI think you're referring to Canada's Online News Act, which would require companies to pay news outlets for the content they share or repurpose. I'm a Canadian familiar with this story, and Google's opposition to it. It surprise me if Google would limit Bard in Canada because of the Online News Act. Wouldn't the importance of driving adoption of Bard be much larger than the impact of having to remove Canadian news?
- tomComb 3y agoIt is most certainly not about news content - for which they already have arrangements - but links to news articles. Hence they call it the link tax, but that is not really apt as the money mostly goes to rogers and bell, not taxpayers.
- paulddraper 3y agoThey're afraid of the Canadian government.
- raybb 3y agoCan bard actually create a calendar event for me yet or does it still just say that it will then not actually do anything?
- vikingbeast 3y agoI once asked it to page an on-call engineer. Hopefully they haven't wired that functionality up now.
- cipherself 3y agoNope, it can't create the events. does it still just say that it will then not actually do anything? It will now say: I can't directly create calendar events for you, but I can help you create a calendar event description. Please provide me with the following information so I can create a detailed description for you: * Event title * Event date and time * Event location * Event attendees (if applicable) * Event description * Any additional notes or reminders Once I have this information, I can provide you with a calendar event description that you can then add to your calendar. And if you provide that information, it'll just format it, add a few tokens and just display it to you.
- iampims 3y agoThat’s one expensive template engine…
- janalsncm 3y agoNot bad. It’s limited in what it can do but I would probably check Bard if ChatGPT went down. I have the “AI search” extension enabled in Google search as well and it’s pretty unreliable. Seems like half of my coding questions it hallucinated some function that doesn’t exist. But if Google release Bard in its current state a year ago most people probably would be using it now, even if it’s inferior.
- worewood 3y agoI've used it to find flights and it was actually really nice. I didn't have a destination for my vacation so I asked for flights for cities at least X km away from me and costing at most Y, in the next Z months. It promptly answered.
- RandomThrow321 3y agoI've had success with it. The integration with other google services could be a killer feature, but I think it needs some more polish and control. For example, right now it can't add an event to your calendar. I'd think it could at least generate a link to create one. It sort of seems like they're being overly cautious when compared to the way ChatGPT was launched.
- devbent 3y ago> Seems like half of my coding questions it hallucinated some function that doesn’t exist. I've actually seen AI search and ChatGPT 4 hallucinate identical fake command line parameters to a program. It was ... rather sus.
- haolez 3y agoJust checked out Bard for the first time because of the OpenAI outage. It sucks. It feels worse than GPT-3.5 with worse reasoning and instruction following. This is embarrassing for Google. EDIT: Just to be clear: I want it to be good. It's unfortunate that it's underwhelming.
- m3kw9 3y agoIt’s cheesy af, you don’t have to wonder why it’s still in beta
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoIt is not terrible for finding information about, say, Python tools for working with time series. I use it when Bing Chat (Copilot?) fails.
- sandwichbop 3y agoSurprised to see this here, was just reading about it on the bard page a few minutes ago since I been killing time waiting for chatGPT to come back up for Plus Users. I think it would be really cool if we could get a Bard extension for Google Colab, maybe some integration with the Colab Pro would be really interesting analogous to the Data Analysis Plugin
- elashri 3y agoGoogle Colab pro already provide AI auto-complete (like github copilot) and bard like experience already. [1] [1] https://colab.research.google.com/signup https://colab.research.google.com/signup
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- guestbest 3y agoFor creative writing, I prefer Bard over the other ones for a few reasons. First off, it’s free with any Gmail account and secondly it has draft (3) that I can compare. It may not seem like much but I have a creative workflow and like it much more than Bing AI. I’ve been trying to use GitHub copilot and it is a lot less reasonable to use for technical work. But throwing an idea at Bard is kind of fun once you get in to promoting
- Tiberium 3y agoHave you tried using Claude for creative writing? I find its creativity to be quite far ahead of GPT-4. You can try it for free on claude.ai, although it needs a phone number and isn't available in all countries (but that can be solved with a VPN, even if the phone number is from a different country).
- guestbest 3y agoI’m trying it out now based on your suggestion. It might be limited in allowed messages, which I think is 10 per 8 hours for free tier and twice for pro tier. It seems comparable to bard without the draft feature
- robwwilliams 3y agoLooks like a link to pure ad copy BS.
- codekansas 3y agoWritten by Bard?
- webappguy 3y agoBard is utter junk. I used to proclaim to everyone how it had its place as an equal tool in my daily AI tool chest specifically for web browsing. When they updated it and said I could access YouTube transcriptions etc it never really could and still can't. It hallucinates far more than any other llm premium model like Claude or Perplexity. Thus far they better get their s** together for Gemini or they're toast and this is coming from somebody who uses AI llms all day long for half a year
- Tommstein 3y agoI've been using Bard since it came out. Its trajectory, in my opinion, has been "pretty shitty" → "pretty good" → "completely shitty".
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- sho_hn 3y agoIt's probably not going to become interesting until their Gemini model debuts and Bard is transitioned over to it.
- golergka 3y agoJust tried it, and yeah — it's pretty bad. It first told me that OpenAI's latest model is GPT-3 and only budged to 3.5 after follow-up questions. I mean, isn't retrieving up-to-date and accurate information from the internet the whole Google's thing?
- uoaei 3y agoLLMs don't retrieve anything unless there's infra in place so that they can go and do that. It's called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and it's still pretty new enough that it hasn't been integrated in all workflows. There was a bunch of copy early on claiming LLMs "read the internet and find you results" but it's weaselly wording and was until remarkably recently complete BS.
- moneycantbuy 3y agocan bard be an adblocker on chrome?
- RandomThrow321 3y agoI love it. "provide me a rendered html page with the most relevant links and descriptions for a given topic, completely free of advertising"
- davidmurdoch 3y agoBard: > simply type the name of the product that you want to access after the "@gmail" prompt. For example, to access Google Docs, you would type "@gmail docs". Me > @gmail docs Bard > Unfortunately, Bard Extensions is still under development and currently doesn't support full integration with Google Docs through Gmail.
- RandomThrow321 3y agoWhere did you see that? It seems this is integrating two extensions together, I'm curious how that would work. I asked it "@gmail summarize my last 5 emails" and that worked decently. Edit: Actually, I'm not completely certain how the "@<extension>" syntax works. Are the results limited to that app?
- davidmurdoch 3y agoI prompted bard with "What is bard extensions?" and that was part of its response.
- RandomThrow321 3y agoHa, good call. I tried that, it seemed showed a bunch of examples that seem to leave out the extension name. I wish the tutorial was better.
- davidmurdoch 3y agoI just tried "@gmail summarize my last 5 emails" and got: > I don't have access to your Gmail account, so I can't summarize your last 5 emails. However, I can help you summarize your emails if you provide them to me.
- davidmurdoch 3y agoTo which I responded: > You do have access via the new "extensions" feature. And it said: > Thank you for reminding me about the new Gmail extensions feature. I am still under development and working on integrating with those features. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to access your Gmail account even with your permission. > > However, once the integration is complete, I will be able to access your Gmail account with your permission and summarize your last 5 emails. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Is there anything else I can help you with in the meantime?
- replwoacause 3y agoCan someone in the know explain how Bard could be as bad as it is, considering Google has been investing in AI for as long as they have? I thought they were earlier than most to begin serious work on AI? How could Bard suck this bad?
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- mvdtnz 3y agoDon't do this please.
- rvnx 3y agoThis is also because in Google you tend to get more easily promoted once you launch a new product, than when you do maintenance. So the most logical course at this stage, based on typical politics at Google, would be to shutdown Bard, and launch a new product instead (like what has happened with all the messengers / social network apps)
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- never_inline 3y agoWhich is, of course, complete bullshit as well. This answer perfectly illustrates why the chat gpt verbiage irritates me so much. It's basically rephrasing the oft-repeated complaint that Google kills of projects, (in an MBA style English). But how does that have anything to do with Bard AI being crap? People are seriously impressed by this app?
- drones 3y agoMakes sense to me. Google clearly has a culture/reputation where projects are routinely killed off because they aren't deemed "successful" by some arbitrary metric. This fosters a "failure/success" mentality among employees, which influences what types of projects they take (obvious, immediately profitable) and how long it takes to develop them (as quick as possible). While they have a lot of smart people working there, I think big G has some organisational problems which prevents them from completing large scale experimental projects like this.
- adaboese 3y agoI've tried using it for generating articles based on provided fact sheet, and it somehow managed to invent a bunch of facts while referencing the fact sheet, without directly mentioning anything in the fact sheet. This is just so bad compared to OpenAI 4 or even 3.5. How is that possible given that some of the smartest people work for Google?
- topsycatt 3y agoHey I work on that! I can only share information that's already public unfortunately, which isn't much beyond what's on that page...
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 3y agoAny word on the (public) timeline for Gemini?
- jdeaton 3y ago> Extensions are unavailable while your Bard Activity is off. bummer, guess I wont be using it
- dwwoelfel 3y agoI'm impressed. I asked it "How much is a flight from San Francisco to the rapid & blitz tournament over Christmas?" and it figured out which tournament I was talking about and showed me ticket prices. https://g.co/bard/share/7966410c42af https://g.co/bard/share/7966410c42af ChatGPT also figured it out, but Bard is much better at displaying information: https://chat.openai.com/share/ba5d5acc-7b40-46e1-ada5-74b4a6ab2241 https://chat.openai.com/share/ba5d5acc-7b40-46e1-ada5-74b4a6...
- addandsubtract 3y agoUgh, I tried Bard too, but wasn't as impressed. Granted, I had a specific request with a stop-over for a couple of days, but it wasn't able to complete it, only the first leg. A follow-up question then prompted it a look-up a round trip flight for the 2nd leg.
- foogazi 3y agoPretty wild seeing it summarize my emails
- vongomben 3y agoHow are doing you use bard from mobile?
- Havoc 3y agoPalm 2 is still discounted to zero right? Anybody know till when that’s likely to last?