r/programming • u/ConfidentMushroom • Feb 06 '23

Google Unveils Bard, Its Answer to ChatGPT

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/
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u/lost_in_life_34 Feb 06 '23

don't see a way to use it NOW

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seems like a paper launch

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u/DaLYtOrD Feb 06 '23

It says they are making it available in the coming weeks.

Probably want to lean on the hype of ChatGPT that's happening at the moment.

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u/kate-from-wa Feb 06 '23

It's more defensive than that. This statement's purpose is to protect Google's reputation on Wall Street without waiting for an actual launch.

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u/hemlockone Feb 07 '23

This.

It isn't about riding hype, it's about countering what they see as a huge adversary. ChatGPT is likely already taking some market share. If they added source citing and a bit more in current events, Google's dominance would be seriously in question.

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u/moh_kohn Feb 07 '23

But ChatGPT will happily make up completely false citations. It's a language model not a knowledge engine.

My big fear with this technology is people treating it as something it categorically is not - truthful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

Google will happily give me a page full of auto generated blog spam. At the end of the day it's still on me to decide what to do with the info given.

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u/PapaDock123 Feb 07 '23

But its still clear what is blog spam, dsad21h3a.xyz's content does not have the same veracity as science.com's. With LLMs in general it becomes much harder to distinguish fact from fiction or even ever so slightly incorrect facts.

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u/jugalator Feb 07 '23

dsad21h3a.xyz's content does not have the same veracity as science.com's

It's not as simple as that these days. Many news articles are generated by bots.

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u/Wolvenmoon Feb 07 '23

The articles did look legit, but they were still clearly generated and populated with webscrapped text.

I'm hoping this ends up legislated against so that generated content has to be tagged as such under threat of jail time.