[swyx]

as a fun ancedote, the Google Bard's implicit code execution update from *last month*, advertised by Sundar... no longer works https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1678495067663925248

i'd love to know whats going on in that team.

[H8crilA]

Probably safety-driven terror. They really really want to get their bots going, but in every single meeting some PM or other concerned engineer talks about safety and f**s up the entire meeting.

They even made the bot not respond to arithmetics questions because the bot is bad at this, lol. Someone who knows how to modify the bot had actually spent their time on something as unimportant as that.

[astrange]

Bard being bad at anything else doesn't seem to stop it. It hallucinates at the drop of the hat. Asking it almost any question implying X nonexistent thing exists causes it to make that thing up.

[donkeyd]

> i'd love to know whats going on in that team.

Seems like a good time to rewatch Silicon Valley and watch Hooli scramble to keep up.

[tudorw]

quite, some aspects of emergent behaviour are exciting, others must be a painful learning experience.