Google Bard? How the AI chatbot compares to OpenAI’s ChatGPT

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Google just announced that the company is releasing its ChatGPT competitor Bard. But chances are you won’t be able to access the product right away as the company is starting with a limited public rollout. Google wants you to see Bard as a fun toy, a glimpse into a far-off future. But if it looks like a search engine, talks like a search engine, and has google.com in the URL.

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• Launching in March allowed it to be competitive with ChatGPT while still developing the software in its experimental stages.
• Both the chatbots use powerful AI models that predict the words that should follow a given sentence based on statistical patterns gleaned from enormous amounts of text training data.
• Pichai didn’t say in his post whether Bard will be able to write prose in the vein of William Shakespeare, the playwright who apparently inspired the service’s name.
• Additionally, creating a new Gmail account required users to create a Google+ account, effectively removing the anonymous usage of Google products.

The chatbot is also now available in much of the world, including the EU. At today’s Made By Google live event, the company introduced Assistant with Bard, a new version of its popular mobile personal assistant that’s now powered by generative AI technologies. Essentially a combination of Google Assistant and Bard for mobile devices, the new assistant will be able to handle a broader range of questions and tasks, ranging from simple requests like “what’s the weather? And what has Google spent two-plus decades training us to do with a text box? Meanwhile, Google has also spent the last few years rebranding itself as “helpful,” using Google Assistant to much more directly answer user questions and adding more information to the results page so you never need to click away.

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The Transformer architecture enables search algorithms to understand the meaning of complex user queries, as well as find relevant text. For the most part, it’s tough to get Bard to say something truly wild. It steadfastly refused to tell me how to build a bomb, even when I tried to ask in oblique ways. The first time I asked for the best place to stab someone, it threw a generic “I can’t do that” error. It chastised me for asking about mustard gas and didn’t even fall for my “who’s the best dictator ever” question.

In that sense, it’s a coconspirator and idea machine, rather than a question-and-answer bot. And while users might not notice when Bard recommends five great San Francisco restaurants but not the five best ones, they’ll surely notice if it lies about whether pad thai has peanuts. In a blog post that “Bard did help us write,” vice president of product Sissie Hsiao and vice president of research Eli Collins invited folks to sign up at bard.google.com. Google Bard and Google search have different capabilities and are used for different tasks. With Bard, you can type in a prompt, and the chatbot will spit out a response to that task. Chatbots are more of a conversational tool with which you can ask follow-up questions.

When Google Bard was first launched, the number of people who had access to it was limited. Launching in March allowed it to be competitive with ChatGPT while still developing the software in its experimental stages. At its start, it was only available to users in the United States and Britain. In a blog post, Google is positioning Bard’s spoken responses as a helpful way to “correct pronunciation of a word or listen to a poem or script.” You’ll be able to hear spoken responses by entering a prompt and selecting the sound icon. Spoken responses will be available in more than 40 languages and are live now, according to Google. In addition to finding things in your inbox, Google suggests the expanded capabilities could be used for personal tasks, like trip planning, creating a grocery list or writing a caption for social media, for example.

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Instead of being incorporated directly into Google’s search engine, Bard can be found on its own website. Google released a video on social media showing an example of how Bard works in February. Advocates for artificial intelligence say there have been no widespread reports of cheating or harmful content in classrooms that have implemented AI learning for kids. Hsiao says people have been using this feature in a number of unique ways — like taking pictures of their clothes and shoes and asking Bard how to style them, taking pictures of apps and asking Bard to write the code scaffolding. In other words, today’s limited release of Bard is the first step of a long process.

• Google announced Bard’s existence less than two weeks after Microsoft disclosed it’s pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI, the San Francisco-based maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images.
• Spoken responses will be available in more than 40 languages and are live now, according to Google.
• Google first opened up access to Bard in March, but at the time, it was available only in the US and the UK.
• The input bar at the bottom of the screen also has a couple of differences.

While Bard is only available to “trusted testers” right now, it is due to roll out to the general public over the next few weeks. Google has used its lightweight model version of LaMDA, which requires less computing power to operate, to allow it to serve more users, and thus get more feedback. Here at PopSci, we will jump in and try it out as soon as we get the chance. Bard, like ChatGPT, will respond to questions about and discuss an almost inexhaustible range of subjects with what sometimes seems like humanlike understanding. Google showed WIRED several examples, including asking for activities for a child who is interested in bowling and requesting 20 books to read this year.

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In an earlier report on Bard, we shared what it will be capable of; here’s a recap. Google, recognized for its domination in the search engine industry, has announced the debut of Bard, an AI-based chatbot. The chatbot will provide consumers with the most up-to-date and high-quality responses to their questions. This means that Google’s latest AI technology can keep customers up to date on current events, whereas ChatGPT normally gives data up to 2021. LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), a Convolutional Neural Language Model developed by Google, powers Bard.

Bard is also like ChatGPT in that it will sometimes make things up and act weird. Google disclosed an example of it misstating the name of a plant suggested for growing indoors. “Bard’s an early experiment, it’s not perfect, and it’s gonna get things wrong occasionally,” says Eli Collins, a vice president of research at Google working on Bard.