• by dano on 9/20/2023, 6:53:23 PM

    This would be useful for Google Workspaces if it respected all of the ACL's across shared google drives. To be able to ask questions about the document repository would be a nice thing to have. Currently Bard isn't supported for Workspace.

  • by jsnell on 9/20/2023, 5:33:24 PM

  • by IanCal on 9/21/2023, 12:35:08 PM

    Gonna repost this here as the other comment was on a fairly dead story:

    I tried it and it's awful.

    I asked it about the latest bill with some company, it told me it wasn't sure but I should call a number which was obviously fake (1-800-555-1212). Told it to check my emails and it couldn't find anything. It is not a common name of the company at all, and I have recent emails.

    I'm making some prints of pictures of the sun (plug: https://www.theremarkablz.com/thesun) and a friend was selling them at a stall recently. Asked bard how the sale went, and it told me to go and check someones onlyfans page who has the same first name. I told it to check my emails and it brought up info on a house sale from someone with an entirely different name.

    Has this been even vaguely checked?

    Dupes / same underlying story:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574089

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37571228

  • by rahimnathwani on 9/20/2023, 5:47:24 PM

    Has anyone here managed to enable extensions for their Google Workspace account (not just personal gmail)?

    I've tried enabling this setting for both a legacy free Google Apps domain, and for a paid Business account: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bb4812_1dc8e704bf6d4a49af...

    Neither account displays the extensions icon, and visiting https://bard.google.com/extensions just redirects to https://bard.google.com/chat

  • by suyash on 9/20/2023, 5:51:38 PM

    No thanks, stay away from our emails. Last thing people want is their email content and personal google drive including images to be part of a giant LLM that is publicly available for anyone to use.

  • by senfiaj on 9/20/2023, 9:09:05 PM

    Bard can now accept images, and it's quite decent in recognizing the overall picture, not so good in the details. It can also recognize text.

  • by throw7 on 9/20/2023, 6:47:05 PM

    "Bard made a small mistake..."

    Yeah, an assistant that makes mistakes. Sign me up, I didn't know I needed that!

  • by mayop100 on 9/20/2023, 5:51:24 PM

    Bard's integration with Gmail is extremely basic -- it's just using regular Gmail search to include a few relevant emails in its prompt and then trying to answer your question. There's no AI in the email side.

    We launched a much more capable Gmail + AI assistant this morning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585990#37586627

    We're using embeddings + vector DB + x-encoder + more to deliver a much smarter & capable assistant.