Somehow I have the idea that the general sentiment is that people hope Google fails with Bard. Or at least does something stupid.
Is it just me?
(Not saying it is a good thing)
Is it just me?
(Not saying it is a good thing)
Hint: People are cheap. They want free stuff, not paid alternatives.
What you're looking for is a regulatory solution. E.g. people will not individually choose a lower carbon lifestyle in sufficient numbers to reverse/slow climate change. You need to actively discourage it by policy.
Genuinely curious: Do you feel that adverts you recieve are well tailored towards things you want to buy? Literally all of things you listed are regularly advertised to me by google on youtube & adwords, including car parts and tyres (I dont have a car), things for babies and young children (I dont have children), even fast food services that are not available in my country. Google also consistently and regularly serves me content in languages it knows I do not speak, and then google chrome helpfully offers to translate them
I just figured if they knew me better perhaps and were able to use that information, just maybe they could offer me something I might actually be interested in.
Yes, there are massive problems with most large corporations: being more powerful than most countries, having legal "personhood" in the United States at least, a generally unchecked tendency to acquire competitors, poor unionization, outsized influence via lobbying, poor privacy protections, tax avoidance, gaming local and even national jurisdictions for tax benefits, profiting off long-term national R&D without meaningfully giving back to educational or equity initiatives.
I'm not "blaming" them to be clear. These are systemic problems. The world will have to change a lot of fundamental rules and incentives if we want to see significant change. I'm not holding my breath.
It isn't all bad. I just keep telling myself that.
Basically I don’t expect them to actually release anything exciting, and if they do then I expect it to be neglected and shut down shortly afterwards.
That being said: I'd use Bard if it was cheaper or better than ChatGPT for one simple reason: These "Chat AI" services are transient. Meaning I ask a question, I get an immediate answer, and there is no long term saved state. So if I used Bard, then Bard got KilledByGoogle, I'm not "out" any built up capital (time, training, cost, etc).
But from everything I've read Google is panicking and embarrassing themselves. Half-baked press conferences, half-baked blog posts, half-baked product launches. Nobody who has got into Bard is saying it is a ChatGPT competitor, and even Google's own launch blog they admit it has limits on two-way conversation depth (unlike ChatGPT).