September 27, 2023

Ars Technica: Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result

Ars Technica: Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result. “When you type a question into Google Search, the site sometimes provides a quick answer called a Featured Snippet at the top of the results, pulled from websites it has indexed. On Monday, X user Tyler Glaiel noticed that Google’s answer to ‘can you melt eggs’ resulted in a ‘yes,’ pulled from Quora’s integrated ‘ChatGPT’ feature, which is based on an earlier version of OpenAI’s language model that frequently confabulates information.”

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September 25, 2023

VentureBeat: Google Bard fails to deliver on its promise — even after latest updates

VentureBeat: Google Bard fails to deliver on its promise — even after latest updates. “Unfortunately, in practice, I find Bard to be a disappointment on many levels. It fails to deliver on its core promise of integrating well with Google apps, and often produces inaccurate or nonsensical responses. It also lacks the creativity and versatility of OpenAI’s GPT-4 (It also has no personality or sense of humor, although some users might not take issue with that). Bard badly falls short of expectations.”

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September 21, 2023

New York Times: Google’s Bard Just Got More Powerful. It’s Still Erratic.

New York Times: Google’s Bard Just Got More Powerful. It’s Still Erratic.. “I put the upgraded Bard through its paces on Tuesday, hoping to discover a powerful A.I. assistant with new and improved abilities. What I found was a bit of a mess. In my testing, Bard succeeded at some simpler tasks, such as summarizing an email. But it also told me about emails that weren’t in my inbox, gave me bad travel advice and fell flat on harder analytical tasks.”

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September 20, 2023

Gizmodo: Bard Gets a ‘Google It’ Button and We’re Back at Square One, Folks

Gizmodo: Bard Gets a ‘Google It’ Button and We’re Back at Square One, Folks . “During a press briefing on Tuesday, Google Bard vice president of engineering Amar Subramanya said one of the challenges with large language models is that they oftentimes present inaccurate information, confidently. So, to fix this issue of what he described as ‘the hallucination problem’, Google is sticking a ‘Google It’ button within Bard. Why….why not just bypass the middle bot and go straight to Google?”

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September 6, 2023

Android Authority: Five months later, I still don’t want to use Google Bard

Android Authority: Five months later, I still don’t want to use Google Bard. “Fast forward to today and we’ve crossed the five-month threshold since Google’s chatbot became publicly available. Despite that, Bard hasn’t found the same kind of success that ChatGPT achieved virtually overnight. But even as Google’s chatbot continues to fade from public discourse, the company hasn’t stopped working on it just yet. So after noticing the last set of updates, I decided to give the troubled chatbot a fair chance. Unfortunately, it only took a few tests to find out why I stopped using Bard in the first place.”

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July 30, 2023

Tom’s Guide: Don’t ‘Bard it’ — Google says you should still Google it to be safe

Tom’s Guide: Don’t ‘Bard it’ — Google says you should still Google it to be safe. “Google Bard may be competing with ChatGPT, but it’s also competing with Google Search. Plenty of people are turning to AI chatbots over traditional search engines, which is why Bing Chat and Google Search Generative Experience both exist as AI tools that blend generative AI with traditional search. But unfortunately, generative AI gets things wrong — a lot. So Google is reminding people that when in doubt, you should still Google it rather than Bard it.” Use the whizbang technology, but do not TRUST the whizbang technology. Instead, keep using the old technology, so that it takes twice as long to do a task. But whizbang technology! This is so stupid.

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July 17, 2023

Bloomberg: Google’s AI Chatbot Is Trained by Humans Who Say They’re Overworked, Underpaid and Frustrated

Bloomberg: Google’s AI Chatbot Is Trained by Humans Who Say They’re Overworked, Underpaid and Frustrated. “Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors from companies including Appen Ltd. and Accenture Plc, who can make as little as $14 an hour and labor with minimal training under frenzied deadlines, according to several contractors, who declined to be named for fear of losing their jobs.”

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June 22, 2023

The Register: We just don’t get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us

The Register: We just don’t get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us. “Workers tasked with improving the output of Google’s Bard chatbot say they’ve been told to focus on working fast at the expense of quality. Bard sometimes generates inaccurate information simply because there isn’t enough time for these fact checkers to verify the software’s output, one of those workers told The Register.”

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June 15, 2023

Euronews: ChatGPT and Google Bard adoption remains surprisingly low

Euronews: ChatGPT and Google Bard adoption remains surprisingly low. “The study, which was conducted in April of this year, included 2 000 people and was focused on AI adoption in addition to people’s willingness to use new AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard. The results showed that only 19 per cent of the people who took part in the study said that they have used ChatGPT before, while only 9 per cent of the respondents have used the Google Bard chatbot.” This was April… but it’s still lower than I would have thought.

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