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bh9578 t1_jegj3u6 wrote

There’s no 4d chess here. Bard is the best they have. That’s why Larry Page and Sergei Brin had to fly in for a “code red” emergency meeting. I don’t find it too surprising that a scrappy start up was able to outwit a Google. This has been the continual story in business. Google is a typical large company with too many committees and red tape. They got complacent and fell asleep at the wheel. Same thing that happened to IBM, GE, Blockbuster, Barnes and Noble, etc. Microsoft and Apple are incredibly rare examples of businesses that have managed to stay relevant and reinvent themselves.

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AdditionalPizza OP t1_jegl6jr wrote

Well we know the version of LaMDA that Bard uses is not based on the best model they have, for a fact, we know this. Which is why I'm asking the question, what's the point in Bard being released how it is? Pichai recently even reiterated that Bard is weak and not even close to their better models.

It just doesn't make sense. Google is definitely not further behind in general, every preview they have given has been exception except Bard. There's no way Google shows off PaLM-E then winds up like Blockbuster.

Besides Google is so fucking massive, I don't think companies that large can plummet.

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bh9578 t1_jegoqpy wrote

Probably the founders swooped in and told them they wanted to release whatever they had because they panicked. The engineers probably said it wasn’t ready, but upper management over ruled them. Of course they’re going to say they have something better but I’m doubtful. They looked really unconfident in their presentation of bard. It’s like they all knew they had a loser but we’re forced to throw a presentation together with a 72 hour notice.

I haven’t been too impressed with Google as a company in recent years. They seem really unfocused and like they’re always chasing after the latest tech fad.

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