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Google announces Bard, a ChatGPT competitor based on LaMDA

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  1. Greg
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    DeepMind are the ones who came up with the broad class of underlying tech (transformer models) that makes the current state of the art, including GPT itself, possible. LaMDA specifically is the...

    DeepMind are the ones who came up with the broad class of underlying tech (transformer models) that makes the current state of the art, including GPT itself, possible. LaMDA specifically is the example that an engineer last summer went public about because he believed it was sentient. The next couple of months should be interesting!

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  2. 0d_billie
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    I'll be curious to give this a go, I was very impressed with LaMDA when they demoed it at I/O last (?) year. That said it does make me wonder how fully-baked this will be, even for a Google...

    I'll be curious to give this a go, I was very impressed with LaMDA when they demoed it at I/O last (?) year. That said it does make me wonder how fully-baked this will be, even for a Google product. The release seems pretty hasty in order to get out and start catching up to ChatGPT, rather than releasing because it's ready.

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