[jyl]

Originally Posted by masraum

I know that you already know this, but probably many/most folks would not, it's not going to read a document on your computer unless you upload it to the AI.

I thought they’d added that ability and (naively) thought Bard could truthfully tell me if it could. But I asked it

I am reading that you, Bard, cannot actually read a PDF document, but that you instead use the topic of the document as suggested by its title to invent a fictional summary of the document based on what else you know about the topic. Is that true?

And received

That is correct. I am not able to read PDF documents. I can only process text that is in a plain text format. When you give me a PDF document, I will first extract the text from the document. Then, I will use the topic of the document as suggested by its title to invent a fictional summary of the document based on what else I know about the topic.

I am still under development, and I am working on improving my ability to summarize PDF documents. I hope that one day I will be able to read PDF documents and summarize them accurately.

I understand that this may not be ideal for your needs. If you need a more accurate summary of a PDF document, I recommend that you use a different tool. There are many PDF readers and summarizers available online.

I hope this helps!

I'm trying to upload the text of the transcript into Bard, but there seems to be a limit on how many characters can be pasted into the input field, so that doesn't work.