An example of a Google Bard informational response that misses a key point
I just asked Bard:
"who is called the bard?"
The logical first answer -- and in fact the bulk of replies if you do
an actual Google Search on this, will of course be William Shakespeare.
And he's also the "featured response" from Google Search.
But Bard ironically has a different set of priorities, apparently
paraphrasing from Wikipedia (the noted source) but never mentioning
poor William (even though Wikipedia does so):
Q: who is called the bard
A: The word "bard" has several meanings.
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller,
verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed
by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or
more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own
activities.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bard the Bowman is a Man of Laketown
and a descendant of the ancient Lords of Dale. He manages to kill
Smaug, the dragon, after which he becomes king of Dale.
In Google AI's Bard language model, the name is chosen to evoke the
ancient Celtic tradition of bards as storytellers and preservers of
knowledge.
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