Google has Updated BARD, and Now it is Better Than ChatGPT!

Google has made another feature drop for Bard. Not only has it updated the model for greater quality and accuracy, it has integrated it with various Google services. This means Bard can get you real time information from your emails, documents, from YouTube and more!
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[chasemason]

Google Assistant being able to leverage Bard would be epic

[floppa]

Wow, this is really a big step forward. I really liked Bing's AI and Google Bard but the fact they can't really be used in combination with other Services from Microsoft / Google really was limiting. This seems amazing. If this gets built into the OS to run stuff like "Look for all my photos of cats, convert them into PNGs, 7zip them and upload them to my google drive" it would be huge.

[dimtass]

The update is really nice. It hallucinates a lot though. For example it was not able to parse the contents of the cinema theater web site and propose the movies are available tonight and it was showing other older movies. It's just a matter of a few updates to get there though.

[thaernejem]

As always, your topics are interesting and informative. Thank you

[georgekhumalo]

At the end of the day, it's all about the quality of the output. Extensions are good and all, but, if the hallucinations are still prevalent. Then ChatGPT 4 is still king. I want expecting a move from Palm 2 or at least a core upgrade into the Models basic logic and reasoning.

[TPM]

Bard hallucination are crazy. Be careful.

[PaulBrassington_flutter_expert]

I've used Bard for a long time but didn't realise the huge step forward, thanks for the update

[nioxic]

I wish it could extrapolate the "points" of some videos by reading the subtitles and summerizing the video content. This could save HOURS for people looking for a snippet of specific info on a topic.
i asked it last night to read my school assignment (8 pages) and it summerized it and i asked for some pointers, maybe some areas where i could elaborate or similar. it was very helpful.
also, my report was not in english, but it summerized it in english for me, and read it in its native language without a hitch. even though the "feature" is english only.
so thats nice

[johnybro]

So about the privacy bit say if I don't want anyone reviewing bard to know about the summary of my latest email, then I'm better off not prompting it to do it right?

[therahay]

How is it as a novel writing assistant though? My problem with chatgpt is the will it has a lot of restraints and I have to remind it a lot so I wanna know if bard is better or not?

[Technopath]

ROFL, the actual proof of a fellow writer being "in twenty years if I ever actually finish this novel". You and me both, friend... you and me both.

[Garythefireman]

Thanks for the update professor. The future is bright ☀️

[gerrynewnham]

Bard tells me that the York Road exit from Waterloo tube station is only 0.5km from the London Eye and is closer than Westminster tube station, although the walk from Westminster is more scenic. I agree but am surprised that Bard didn't offer you Waterloo tube station. Perhaps Bard will be clever enough to learn the best/quickest route?

[simonabunker]

This is pretty neat. Can it work with Google Photos? It would be great if it could understand images too.

[timr.]

But the Bard you can ask general questions like ChatGPT is still not opened to the public?

[Ozymandi_as]

Gosh, the understanding of your novel was extremely impressive. And a little bit scary. It'll be doing literary criticism and reviews of new fiction next, and telling us about its favourite authors!

[Edward-bmvw]

I've been beta testing Bard for awhile. It's slowly getting better and better. I really like the changes they've been pushing.

[markloughtonUK]

It wont let me add the workplace integration because i dont use gmail :(

[Battler]

I actually just tried it, I love the update.

[dimtass]

Although it mentions that it can summarise videos when I've asked to summarise this video it couldn't do it.