Ask HN: Anyone else wishes Google Bard fails?

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I have no doubt that if Google gains market share in their AI endeavors, they will at some point kneecap or retire their products. Anything to save their ad business, since they're basically an ad company. I hope to see other companies become competitors to OpenAI, just not Google.

gregjor• 3 years ago

If you don’t like Google don’t use their products. Then you wouldn’t care about their ad-supported business or the possibility of them canceling products. Plenty of choice. Seems a waste of energy and attention to care about Bard one way or the other.

In any case “wishing” or praying will accomplish nothing, even if you find kindred souls here.

MattGaiser• 3 years ago

they will at some point kneecap or retire their products. Anything to save their ad business

Why not just insert ads into Bard? Have the AI recommend products or sites? It enables a whole new level of embedded content.

retrocryptid• 3 years ago

Sure, but in order to fail, Google has to clearly identify what its goal is. As far as I can tell, it's "add a word salad to the bottom of every search." Sadly, I believe it has succeeded far beyond their wildest expectations.

ggm• 3 years ago

Wishing something about technology seems like a mis fit. I expect it to be problematic, yes. But as a reactionary decision (reactive to perceived market expectations rather than evidenced need) "failures" in this deployment may be more about "who has to go" at board level than expectations of technology outcome.

It's a really stupid, unnecessary move. It deserves derision.

ddmma• 3 years ago

Were years of writing google.com as several times per day, now this default behavior switch to chat.openai.com

Beat that!

wg0• 3 years ago

I think Google was already ahead in this LLM game within. There were news of an engineer calling something sentient and getting fired. That must be something at level of GPT-4 or beyond.

But issue with LLMs is that if as a user, I ask it about how inventory valuation works in context of accounting than it might say something inaccurate. To the layman it'll seem accurate but not useful because being incorrect and for the expert, they'll already know and an incorrect output is of no use to them either.

So probably Google would have evaluated the product internally in accuracy, usefulness and would have rightly, at that time concluded that such a product feature is more of a liability than an asset.

Disclaimer - no inside knowledge, assuming.

darthrupert• 3 years ago

No, we need competition.

Ask HN: Anyone else wishes Google Bard fails?

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