Ask HN: Was Bard just someone's ticket to get promotion at Google?

15 points·behnamoh··4 comments

I just can't believe that a company like GOOG can't offer an alt-GPT-4 even after months. Bard seems like a joke played far too long, and from what I see, it's just a failed project. Given GOOG's notorious history, I suspect Bard was just some PM's resume builder to get prompted in the company, nothing else.

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> I suspect Bard was just some PM's resume builder to get prompted in the company, nothing else.

It's pretty obvious that Bard was something Google had to do given the circumstances and there must have been a big push for it from very high up in the company; very unlikely that it's someone's promotion project.

Why do you care so much? If you like GPT-4, you can still use it.

Nobody really has an incentive to go after OpenAI right now. They leverage a ton of proprietary research, millions of dollars of GPUs and millions of users who they serve at a loss. And when they modify their model, those users then accuse them of self-sabotage and censorship, threatening to take their business elsewhere.

The market doesn't even know what it wants yet. Serving a weak, neutered model for simple home assistant stuff is the least controversial and most profitable option.

OpenAI's valuation is at $27B-29B. That's all the incentive that companies need to go after OpenAI.

I heard through an engineer friend how the notorious bureaucracy of Google is the reason for Bard’s failure. They can’t issue any improvements or do anything without taking it to the higher ups.

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