It would appear that Bard has a lot of trouble with:
- determining what today's (insert date) headlines are
- getting headlines from it's own news source, Google News
- relevant content when filters are requested (e.g., no politics, no war, no gun violence, no Trump, and no Congress)
Bard at least complied with the filters and did not give me any news stories that had vague interpretation matches to those topics.
The problem, IMHO, lies in that Bard does not cite its sources nor provide links to where it got its answers from; unlike Chat-GPT and Bing AI.
For top news stories, Bard is not replacing Alexa any time soon. Bing AI is capable of performing this feat with link and source citations, its responses lead you to links that are chock full of ads.
I'm not impressed by any chatbot capability and what Bard has isn't artificial intelligence. Today, this is no more than a fancy rebranding of machine learning. How can a machine learn on its own if it has to be told to learn on its own and told what sources to use from the Internet. Every response seems to have been coded into a specific framework, like how math problems are solved. There are univerally accepted formulas for how mathematics works.
