Google needs to stop throwing good money after Bard

I would be willing to bet $10 that this whole article was written primarily in order to give substance to its perfectly excellent headline pun.

I think HN users are over indexing on capabilities to solve complex problems, I was looking for something simple like "why diane feinstein is in capitol today", bard knew the answer whereas chatgpt doesnt answer the question. another example was "why is jaime foxx in hospital", i think these are the question that people usually have where bard is much better equipped at.

Google and their associated properties have felt stagnant and boring for a long time now. Imagine if everything they had announced at IO 2023 had instead been announced a year ago, prior to ChatGPT becoming a household name. They had all the money and talent in the world to reinvent themselves, but chose instead to rest on their laurels. IO 2023 could be summed up with "we're going to be doing everything Microsoft has already started doing".

Google I/O was a massive ad trip. Bard is still pretty bad compared to GPT-4. If you tweak their own examples a bit, Bard basically craps out. This is pretty amazing given they have all the talent, compute and data in the world.

Look how well the stock has done since IPO. Google has survived all competition thus far. For this reason, given Google's 2-decade track record, I trust google management more than I trust some writer. It's a long-shot bet with huge potential payoff.