Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by emodendroket 1175 days ago
To give an example of the limitations of these things that's hopefully easy to understand, I got access to Bard this morning and asked it to write a limerick. It gave me what could charitably be called a free verse poem that happened to begin "there once was a man from Nantucket." I'm sure they can improve on it (ChatGPT was better at this kind of thing when I had access to it) but "solved problem" is clearly a long way off.
2 comments

Seems Pretty Good to me! Better than I could do anyway. Bard is a joke compared to GPT-4: "Write a limerick about a dog"

  There once was a dog from the pound
  Whose bark had a curious sound
  With a wag and a woof,
  He'd jump on the roof,
  Delighting the folks all around.
Yes, much more compelling. But if this were a “solved problem” then any of them should be able to do it easily. It’s not like I need to compare the results of sorting between different programs. It just works. That is a solved problem.
A solved problem means that someone has solved it, not that everyone has.
You can use the term to mean whatever you want but in my mind it means it's boring with no particular room for improvement. Even the biggest booster isn't going to say that about this AI. And keep in mind, "write me a limerick" is a pretty easy prompt. We're not trying to do anything too novel or crazy there.
Yeah, at least two years.