Google announces Bard

[Cmaier]

An important next step on our AI journey

Introducing Bard, Google's experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA — plus, new AI features in Search coming soon.

blog.google

 

[Alli]

So what will we use it for?

 

[Cmaier]

So what will we use it for?

“Bard, how do I hide a body?”

 

[Citysnaps]

“Bard, how do I hide a body?”

Bard: Whole or dismembered?

 

[Roller]

So what will we use it for?

Answering the question, to be, or not to be.

 

[KingOfPain]

With that name, the first question should have been:
Does it sing?

 

[Andropov]

I'm concerned about the effects these kinds of AI are going to have on the availability of good quality info on the internet. I think there's a real possibility that now-useful sites like StackOverflow become filled with autogenerated junk that may or may not be true/work. Google search is already facing that problem, despite AIs being in its infancy. This last year I've had to append "Reddit" to a lot of my Google searches just to find something, anything at all written by a human, and most of this happened before ChatGPT (or any other mainstream access to large language models).

 

[Alli]

And following closely is Microsoft’s entry:

Microsoft announces surprise event for Tuesday with Bing ChatGPT expected

Microsoft won’t be streaming this event, though.

www.theverge.com

I’m becoming weary of it all.

 

[Eric]

And following closely is Microsoft’s entry:

Microsoft announces surprise event for Tuesday with Bing ChatGPT expected

Microsoft won’t be streaming this event, though.

www.theverge.com

I’m becoming weary of it all.

Seems like it's here to stay and all of the giants are in on it, was really just a matter of time.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

With ChatGPT basically this….

 

[KingOfPain]

This reminds me a bit of the Eliza vs Racter test...

I guess everyone knows Eliza. If not, here is the gist:
Eliza was implemented in LISP by Joseph Weizenbaum, apparently to prove that computers cannot communicate with humans directly, but a lot of people misunderstood it.
It worked on simple keywords. If you typed a sentence with "father" in it, e.g., it would respond to you with: "Tell me more about your family."
I tested it once, and ran into a grammar issue (in the reply) after my third sentence or so.

There is another old AI called Racter, which had certain topics it would talk about, but was a bit erraticly jumping between them, which is why (according to an article) it occasionally was used to train people in communicating with schizophrenic people.
It even wrote a book with the title: "The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed"

Someone thought it would be a joke to have Racter communicate with Eliza.
Let's just say, Eliza was a bit overwhelmed by Racter.

 

[exoticspice1]

mm. where is Apple in this?

could wwdc23 be huge? Mac Pro, VR, and AI.

 

[lizkat]

Far more serious for content publishers than it looks. Google is of course concerned about Microsoft incorporating ChatGPT into Bing, and so it wants to make its own long anticipated pivot to computing "the answer to more of your queries" -- based on interpreting your search parameters (via AI and using what it has seen of the whole blasted internet) rather than just showing you a ranked list of links larded with ads when you use Google for a search. Hence its amped-up rollout of "Bard" now in a selective beta...

Yeah. There could be ramifications galore for news and other publishers, starting with "fair use" of copyrighted materials.

Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers?

A dozen years ago, Eric Schmidt forecast the AI pivot that's playing out this week. And the questions it prompts — around the link economy, fair use, and aggregation — are more real than ever.

www.niemanlab.org

 

[Yoused]

 

[lizkat]

My problem with this is that now the AI chat cat has more or less clawed its way out of the bag, a couple of huge corporations (with the sense actually to know better, somewhere in their engineering ranks) are instantly, anxiously, furiously throwing caution to the winds and rolling out their half baked AI "disrupters" of a now ubiquitous consumer tool --the search engine, even if half the world calls it google-- in hopes of getting a leg up inside their comfy, perceived duopoly. I say half baked because guardrails and idiot-proofing are always the LAST things to get tacked into any application.

So yeah I"m no luddite but for now imma stick to Duck Duck Go for my usually pretty mundane queries. I like picking through the also pretty mundane links that paddle to the shore of that lake, thank you very much.

What this might do for me is tempt me to upgrade my laptop sooner rather than later... and use the one I'm typing on right now on its own network to mess around with whatever that half-tamed chatcat has on offer as time goes on.

 

[lizkat]

Aaaaaanddd... another player rushes into the AI chat cat bandwagon, ready or not.

Alibaba tests ChatGPT-style tool as AI buzz intensifies

Alibaba Group , on Wednesday said it is developing a ChatGPT-style tool that is currently in internal testing, joining a race by tech companies globally to show they are up to speed on generative artificial intelligence (AI) developments.

www.reuters.com

 

[lizkat]

And if you feel left out or crowded out waiting for a shot at using ChatGPT, there's Poe... and its variants Sage, Claude... and Dragonfly.

Is the future about one all-knowing AI or many? The new app Poe gets you ready to chat with them all

Poe lets you use ChatGPT alongside a new rival named Claude — which seems to work better in important ways.

www.niemanlab.org

 

[KingOfPain]

Live demonstration of Bard fails, because the phone is missing, huh?

In Paris demo, Google scrambles to counter ChatGPT but ends up embarrassing itself

So far, the expected Microsoft-Google AI war has turned into an AI fizzle.

arstechnica.com

 

[Yoused]

Remember those dozen or so Star Trek episodes where Captain Kirk koaned a computer to death? It appears that ChatGPT has some odd vulnerabilities.

 

[dada_dave]

Live demonstration of Bard fails, because the phone is missing, huh?

In Paris demo, Google scrambles to counter ChatGPT but ends up embarrassing itself

So far, the expected Microsoft-Google AI war has turned into an AI fizzle.

arstechnica.com

That paragraph about hallucinations and the linked Wikipedia article therein were both very interesting.

Remember those dozen or so Star Trek episodes where Captain Kirk koaned a computer to death? It appears that ChatGPT has some odd vulnerabilities.

And it seems relevant to ChatGPT

Hallucination (artificial intelligence) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org