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by knaik94 1130 days ago
I asked if it's true that it's now using PaLM 3, as announced in Google I/O today, and it enthusiastically agreed. The previous question was asking the same question but with PaLM 2 and it agreed to that as well. I followed up asking about this discrepancy, and it said:

"I apologize for the confusion. I am still on PaLM 2. PaLM 3 is not yet available to the public. I am excited for the release of PaLM 3, and I hope that it will be a valuable tool for people all over the world."

My initial results are very disappointing. It's very strongly parroting information I give it, basically rephrasing my question and adding maybe a sentence worth of additional details. Sometimes, it does well, but I have no way to reproduce that kind of quality on demand. I feel it was conversationally better before any recent changes.

I understand that this is still beta, but for some questions, I already produce similar or better results locally. I also might be talking to PaLM 1 or even LaMDA, no way to confirm.