Bard vs ChatGPT: Side By Side Comparisons
This week, Google released an update to Bard — their AI chatbot. They also removed the waitlist and gave access to 180+ countries and territories, so a lot more people can use Bard.
Google said they moved Bard to a new LLM, PaLM 2. This enabled many of the recent improvements — including advanced math and reasoning skills and coding capabilities.
Before writing this, I never tried Bard. The only things I’d heard about it were it’s a worse ChatGPT.
Since Google said you can use Bard for things like this:
- Brainstorm ideas, develop a plan, or find different ways to get things done
- Get a quick, easy to understand summary of more complex topics
- Create first drafts of outlines, emails, blog posts, poems, and much more
I figured now is a good time to test it out. Those are things I’m using ChatGPT for, and I’m curious to see if Bard can do them any better.
Bard is free, and I’m paying for ChatGPT-4. To keep this comparison as even as possible, I’ll use GPT-3.5 and the same prompts for both. I’m also using a new chat, and resetting Bard before each new prompt.
