🤖 Does Google Bard Suck

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• Even Google employees question Bard’s utility

• AI startups start to lay off employees

• What happens when chatbots talk to other chatbots

• OpenAI is making bank, it seems

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The Bard Discord community is sounding off, and it’s not great.

A report by Bloomberg details all the disgruntled messages that come out during office hours and chats on the official Bard Discord group.

They make Bard look more underwhelming than a modern Marvel movie. It’s all flair and no substance here, folks.

So, what’s the tea?

According to the article, the product managers for Bard still think the model hallucinates too much, and the team is hyperfocused on making the tool more helpful.

Put another way: Bard doesn’t do much, and you can’t trust it with a butter knife at this point.

But I don’t think that matters.

Look, Bard isn’t great. I’m not defending it. But have you tried ChatGPT’s Bing feature? It’s not incredible, either.

All the generative AI out there is just that—generative.

Google stressed over OpenAI and Bing taking away some of its search market, but I don’t think that’s the case.

As time goes by, people can see the benefits of both sides. There are good ways to use generative AI, but finding facts is not one of them.

Besides, this is a rushed version of what Google is capable of, and ChatGPT is splintered to the point where it’s no longer as useful as it once was.

So, release Gemini, and then we’ll talk.

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Is the AI hype starting to die down?

AI startups are starting to lay off employees, and we’re seeing fewer funding announcements every month. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

But where does all this turmoil lead us?

Let’s talk about this smoke.

With layoffs, or what Meta calls “just another day at the office,” you can’t hide declining numbers at startups. It’s one of the more visible stats we have for a private company's health.

So when companies like Deepgram cut a chunk of their workforce, it should send tingles down your spine.

But don’t start jumping off the hype train yet, okay?

External factors are a contributor to this malaise.

Inflation isn’t getting better. VCs aren’t investing in hype anymore. Most of these companies cutting staff started in the first AI wave back in 2015. 

Consolidation is coming, and there will be more losers. That doesn’t mean the whole space is tanking, guys.

🩺 AI can diagnose a brain tumor from the operating table

😱 Panic over AI reaches a new level when you consider the conflict between the US and China

💵 It’s been reported that OpenAI is making $1.3B ARR now, which is a huge step up

✨ Check out the rumored major upgrades OpenAI is planning for their products

👀 The RIAA wants to add generative AI startups who create audio added to a watchlist

💬 Chatbots talking to other chatbots is helping companies brainstorm and discover new opportunities

⏰ TikTok is saturated with AI audio and fake versions of well-known people like former President Barack Obama

🛡️ An AI startup, Lakera, wants to protect LLMs from malicious prompts

• Bonfire - build enterprise-grade chatbots (link)

• Mentor - 24/7 AI-powered mentorship platform (link)

• Linguix - grammar checking & rewriting for Figma (link)

• Photoshift - swap your product into a midjourney scene (link)

• BlazeSQL - ChatGPT for your SQL database (link)

• Firefly 2 - adds features to Illustrator & Photoshop (link)

• DrLambda - create high-quality presentation experiences (link)

• Roundtable - predict customer survey responses (link)

Spooky Train

If my city did this for Halloween, I’d complain about the transit system way less. Just saying. AI has some good ideas.

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