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Bard accepts URLs, which is a nice feature compared to chatGPT. Example described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250641

When I asked it about a different URL, it seemed to reference an older version of the page, and couldn't answer a question about the text content. chatGPT correctly answered the same question when I pasted the text. I tried pasting the same text in Bard, and Bard still couldn't answer.

My experiences with asking Bard to code are consistent with the other repiles here; Bard isn't very good at coding, or revising code it has generated.

I am interested to see that Bard offers multiple drafts of each reply. I wonder how it chooses which draft to show first.

Not convinced it's pulling the URL, rather it's using google's cache of it. That's why you seemed to get an older version

ChatGPT accepts URLs as well, I just did this week.

I asked it to summarize new features from a technology website which its model had out of date knowledge, and it made me a diff of new things available.

I also asked it to be a critic Go code from a pull request that I provided it the URL.

It hallucinated the answer based on the URL. Bard is probably doing the same.

I just provided ChatGPT with a link to your comment and it claimed it was a "a link to an article on TechCrunch about a startup called Tava Health." I gave Bard the same link and it claimed it was a page about a tool called "TLDR This."[1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/FRVuSQy.jpg

edit: After playing with it some more, it's evident that Bard can perform web searches and likely access cached content like Bing Chat.

This should be easy to test by pointing it to a server you control.

I did just this, and it hallucinated an answer (and did not hit my server).

It may be more accurate than ChatGPT sometimes, if it's using Googles latest web index. The url I used has nothing publicly available and is likely not indexed.

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