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Re:Try Google's Bard by Waterluvian on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:18AM (#35246485)
I'm always fascinated to understand the "why" when something is allowed in the U.S. but not Canada. Especially so when it's also allowed in the U.K. We're basically a perfect (I'm sarcastically winking here) mix of those two countries!

I'm guessing it's purely regulatory?

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Re:Try Google's Bard by feyman_r on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:40AM (#35246869)
I’d think regulation would apply to Microsoft as well - don’t think that’s the reason for such a limited release.
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Re:Try Google's Bard by AlanYx on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:26AM (#35246621)
It's likely Part 3 of bill C-27 (the "Act respecting artificial intelligence systems and data used in artificial intelligence systems"). Google isn't going to launch Bard in Canada if they'll have to pull Bard once C-27 passes.
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Re:Try Google's Bard by rnosov on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:26AM (#35246624)
There is a big AI division of Google located in the UK (DeepMind). Could be related to that.
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Re:Try Google's Bard by rcarmo on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:20AM (#35246517)
Well, you do have all those French-speaking people going out and about. And all those moose. The UK would have none of that, it would be untidy :)
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Re:Try Google's Bard by Waterluvian on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:37AM (#35246825)
Actually joking aside, being unable to offer it in French makes some sense as to why they omit a region. Now I want to wander off and find a list of countries where English is the only official language.
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Re:Try Google's Bard by rcarmo on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:41AM (#35246880)
Well, Nigeria should qualify - it has hundreds of local dialects, but English is the only official language AFAIK.
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Re:Try Google's Bard by sebzim4500 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:49AM (#35246989)
Australia springs to mind, and to the surprise of no-one Bard is not available in Australia.

I really get the feeling that Google is terrified of success. They haven't launched a new sucessful product in God knows how long.

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