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Not impressed with the Bard update so far. I just gave it a screenshot of yesterday's meals pulled from MyFitnessPal, told it to respond ONLY in JSON, and to c

Not impressed with the Bard update so far. I just gave it a screenshot of yesterday's meals pulled from MyFitnessPal, told it to respond ONLY in JSON, and to calculate the macro nutrient profile of the screenshot. It flat out refused. It said, "I can't. I'm only an LLM" but the upload worked fine. I was expecting it to fail maybe on the JSON formatting, or maybe be slightly off on some of the macros, but outright refusal isn't a good look. FWIW, I used GPT-4 to stitch together tiles into a spritesheet, modify the colors, and give me a download link yesterday. The macros calculation was trivial for GPT-4. The gap in abilities makes this feel non-viable for a lot of the uses that currently impress me, but I'm going to keep poking.

visarga 3y ago
That's what they taught it "You're only a LLM, you can't do cool stuff"
jasonjmcghee 3y ago
Sounded like the update is coming out next week- did you get early access?
- SeanAnderson 3y ago
  I don't think so? I live in San Francisco if that matters, but the bard update page says it was updated today for me.
sockaddr 3y ago
> I just gave it a screenshot of yesterday's meals pulled from MyFitnessPal, told it to respond ONLY in JSON, and to calculate the macro nutrient profile of the screenshot > Not impressed This made me chuckle Just a bit ago this would have been science fiction
- SeanAnderson 3y ago
  Hah, I agree. Looking at it from that perspective, my expectations are sky high :) Thanks for the reminder. It is definitely cool to be living in the future.
  - FergusArgyll 3y ago
    I got to use gpt-3 and DALL-E before chatgpt was released and I remember just staring at the computer not believing my eyes. me less than 2 years later: "no that's not the bug!, I ALREADY TOLD YOU I TESTED FOR THAT"
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  I think this goes for nearly all material things, as fantastic as they are, they're not magic. We get used to them very fast.
famouswaffles 3y ago
Gemini pro support on bard is still text only for now https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096 https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096

visarga 3y ago

That's what they taught it "You're only a LLM, you can't do cool stuff"

jasonjmcghee 3y ago

Sounded like the update is coming out next week- did you get early access?

SeanAnderson 3y ago
I don't think so? I live in San Francisco if that matters, but the bard update page says it was updated today for me.

sockaddr 3y ago

> I just gave it a screenshot of yesterday's meals pulled from MyFitnessPal, told it to respond ONLY in JSON, and to calculate the macro nutrient profile of the screenshot > Not impressed This made me chuckle Just a bit ago this would have been science fiction

SeanAnderson 3y ago
Hah, I agree. Looking at it from that perspective, my expectations are sky high :) Thanks for the reminder. It is definitely cool to be living in the future.
- FergusArgyll 3y ago
  I got to use gpt-3 and DALL-E before chatgpt was released and I remember just staring at the computer not believing my eyes. me less than 2 years later: "no that's not the bug!, I ALREADY TOLD YOU I TESTED FOR THAT"
ChatGTP 3y ago
I think this goes for nearly all material things, as fantastic as they are, they're not magic. We get used to them very fast.

famouswaffles 3y ago

Gemini pro support on bard is still text only for now https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096 https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096