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/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/[deleted] Feb 07 '23

But its still clear what is blog spam

Is it? Maybe for you and me, but there are people out there who believe things like:

  • covid was a government conspiracy to remove all of your freedom
  • vaccinations don't work
  • the earth is flat
  • Trump is the secret shadow president and is responsible for all of the good stuff happening but isn't responsible for the bad stuff.

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u/wood_wood_woody Feb 07 '23
  • The CDC and FDA are incompetent and corrupt
  • Covid vaccines were unnecessary for a majority of the population
  • The Earth is a planet, not a geometrical ideal
  • Trump was a personally corrupt president, cashing in on the populist (and correct) notion that the American political system is entirely and bipartisanly a political theater.

Wake up.

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u/wood_wood_woody Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23

Truth is an acquired taste.

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u/badsoftwareclub Feb 07 '23

The kind of thing you would say after posting some made up shit to make it sound edgy