fwiw i noticed the demo failing before today's release. i use all 4 major chat apps every single day for every query (https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar) and started detecting a major major regression in bard about a week or so ago. so suspected something was going on, went back to pop in this question and lo and behold

I thought the bug report was fine. No, they clearly were making an argument that you shouldn't use the product at all (strictly that you shouldn't "trust" the product) because of one bug report. And that's ridiculous, and cheapens the discourse (because it leads us down this road instead of into a discussion about how to implement "reasoning" features in a pattern-matching LLM).

> they clearly were making an argument that you shouldn't use the product at all

i did not write this, nor did i intend to imply it :) i have probably used bard more than 90% of people here. i actually know people on the bard team. i want a world with multiple SOTA AIs. this is my prod to keep them on their toes/i know google breaking things kind of a current theme anyway so i figured its of general interest. i think we all rooting for them to do better.

TBF, after reading this chain, your first comment did come across as implying that.