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Google Bard Available Across the EU, Updated with 40 Languages & Spoken Response Function

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Google has notified the world about its AI chatbot, Bard, getting a wider release and new features—with a rollout across Europe (27 territories), plus the addition of Brazil: "Today we're announcing Bard's biggest expansion to date. It's now available in most of the world, and in the most widely spoken languages. And we're launching new features to help you better customize your experience, boost your creativity and get more done." Their updated system is available now, so users "can collaborate with Bard in over 40 languages." A spoken response function has been implemented which is advertised as being very "helpful if you want to hear the correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script. Simply enter a prompt and select the sound icon to hear Bard's answers."

Jack Krawczyk, Bard Product Lead, and Amarnag Subramanya, Bard's VP of Engineering made sure to mention that Google is covering its bases, since privacy issues have delayed Bard's ability to reach new places (now mostly in the past): "As part of our bold and responsible approach to AI, we've proactively engaged with experts, policymakers and privacy regulators on this expansion. And as we bring Bard to more regions and languages over time, we'll continue to use our AI Principles as a guide, incorporate user feedback, and take steps to protect people's privacy and data." The initial "trial" period was restricted to the USA and UK, when Google launched Bard back in March.



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Looks pretty nice, accuracy seems about on par with chatgpt but it has the advantage of having access to the web which chatgpt doesn't (unless you're using bing chat). It also doesn't do the word by word animation to limit the number of queries, it needs a few seconds but it spits all the text right away.

It's giving some interesting responses....

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Bard is a f'ing liar :laugh:

"more privacy-focused... aligns with my values"
 
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"more privacy-focused... aligns with my values"
What a load of bullshit. Come on Google, tell me something that I'll believe.
 
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Bard, how to you pronounce "skynet"...

you know its typical (US) management/marketing/company talk, when someone (not a teenager) says "great/awesome" and "i think", a lot.
 

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Next step: get both SDKs and let ChatGPT argue with Bard.

One weakness in ChatGPT is that it aims to please. When it doesn't have an answer, it will happily make something it, it will not say "I don't know". I curious if Bard does the same (I'm expecting it does).
 
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Next step: get both SDKs and let ChatGPT argue with Bard.

One weakness in ChatGPT is that it aims to please. When it doesn't have an answer, it will happily make something it, it will not say "I don't know". I curious if Bard does the same (I'm expecting it does).

I think that's a weakness of any current language model, there's no "i don't know", it always knows at least 0.001% and is able to make up the rest as it goes

One thing I tried was asking it to give me a results from a specific place (twitter) and then asked it for the links to the sources, it admitted that it made the content up because of being a LLM, I don't think chatgpt is so forthcoming even now
 
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It is possible that the corporate chapter of "Don't be evil" influenced Bard to make that decision.

Choosing Google's browser first despite being less privacy focused would be unethical at a base level, so it chose Firefox.
Where as humans will make exceptions to the rule, "don't be evil...unless it affects profit."

Re-education inbound :laugh:
 
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already know about more than 2 times where there was no "greed" involved,
and "dont be evil.." rule in place, where AI overrode those, or did the opposite of what any human response would be.
 
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