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What is the Difference Between ChatGPT and Google Bard?

Discover the difference between ChatGPT and Google Bard, two advanced language models that can transform natural language processing as we know it.

Google recently announced Bard, its AI Chat service that will compete directly with Open AI’s ChatGPT. Bard is currently in the testing and will be available to the public in the coming weeks. This blog will examine the distinctions between Google Bard and ChatGPT.

Since their debut, Google Bard and Bing ChatGPT have taken the world by storm. While Bing ChatGPT takes the current lead by embedding a conversational AI Chatbot in the search bar, Google Bard is not far behind.

This will change how search engines work, as users will receive a summary of answers rather than just links. Search engines will become more interactive and engage in conversations with users.

Let’s answer these questions by comparing both AIs to see which one you should use.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with the chatbot. The language model can answer questions and assist you with tasks, such as composing emails, essays, and code.

Usage is currently open to the public free of charge because ChatGPT is in its research and feedback-collection phase. A paid subscription version called ChatGPT Plus launched at the beginning of February.

ChatGPT vs. Google Bard at a Glance

At a base level, both chatbots use natural language processing, which means users key in a prompt or query, and the chatbots generate a human-like response.

There’s a key difference, though, that boils down to the data sources and models they’ve been trained on.

Google Bard uses Google’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) and can offer responses based on real-time, current research pulled from the internet.
ChatGPT, on the other hand, uses its Generative Pre-training Transformer 3 model (or GPT-4, depending on what version you’re using), which is trained on data prior to late 2021.

How does Google Bard compare to ChatGPT?

ChatGPT’s advanced capabilities blow Google Bards out of the water. Even though Google Bard has access to the internet and ChatGPT does not, it fails to produce answers much more often than ChatGPT.

For example, Google Bard fails to answer, “Who are all of the US Presidents?” and responds with, “I’m just a language model, so I can’t help you with that.” It also fails to answer some coding questions and math questions.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai even called Bard ‘a souped-up Civic’ soon after its rollout compared to other chatbots on the market, such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat.

ChatGPT Answers or Google Bard Answers

Bing ChatGPT provides accurate answers while also providing links to the source of the summary. On the other hand, Google Bard had an embarrassing moment during its launch when the AI chatbot gave the wrong answer, causing Google stocks to crash.

Google Bard gave the wrong answer: “What new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?”. Bard’s response consisted of three bullet points, one of which stated that the telescope “took the very first photos of a planet outside the solar system.” According to NASA’s website, the first photograph of an exoplanet was taken in 2004.

Bard offers a better user experience

Bard is lightyears ahead in terms of its user-friendly interface. Not only does it just look nicer—with formatted text that’s way easier to scan than ChatGPT’s chunky text—but you can also edit your questions after you ask them and view multiple responses that it prepares.

More cost-effective option

Both ChatGPT and Google Bard have free versions. ChatGPT is currently available for free on OpenAI’s site as a research preview. But there is now a subscription model called ChatGPT Plus, in which users can pay $20 for priority access and faster speeds. ChatGPT Plus is only available to those who OpenAI has approved.

Bard, on the other hand, currently only has a free model, but you must be a “trusted tester” to gain access to the AI chatbot. Google has announced some AI-based features that have been added to products such as Maps and Lens, but Bard remains a secret. According to Google, public access to Bard will be announced in the “coming weeks.”

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Bard will be a streamlined version of Google Search, whereas ChatGPT will belong to Bing

Bard’s ability to synthesize information into an easy-to-understand format, no matter how complex a topic, means that it could eventually enhance the way people search for information.

Google has already hinted that Bard will be integrated into Google Search. That means the AI will simplify complex topics and return information into easy-to-digest formats, so you can get insights into perspectives that differ.

Google Bard or ChatGPT

For the first time in search history, Bing ChatGPT had taken the lead by incorporating conversational-style answers before Google Bard was even released. To compete with Microsoft, Google had to issue a Code Red alert. ChatGPT has reportedly received 100 million visits to date. While Google Bard is still in beta, Bing ChatGPT has already invited the public to join its waitlist and is gradually rolling out.