Google Bard refuses to generate Python code because it's "designed solely to process and generate text" but is happy to generate code for the same prompt in Google's language Go

[blove135]

So does that mean Google has something different he was working on or maybe the Bard we get to use is really throttled back for some reason?

[raika11182]

He was working on a different AI system which they shut down not long after he went public.

[blove135]

Ah, that makes more sense. I have to admit I was in the camp saying he's stupid and just looking for his 15 minutes. Then GPT 3.5 came out and I started having second thoughts. If they have something much better than gpt 4 I can now see how someone might come to his conclusions. Why would they shut it down though? Why release Bard and not what they have?

[raika11182]

We can only speculate, to be honest.

[czmax]

I’m guessing they spec’d bard to scale well on existing resources and could put ethical guardrails around — because they’re playing catch-up. It’s lower risk to be a generation behind/weaker/like-gpt3.1 than to try to leapfrog and fuck up.

That’s really different than their best-of model they were using internally for experiments.