First, what can be done with Bard and ChatGPT?
Artificial intelligence-enhanced chat applications try to simulate human performance in responding to conversations to answer user inquiries, just like the well-known digital assistants Alexa and Siri, but using advanced models of deep learning, after being provided with a huge amount of information.Artificial intelligence chat applications can answer various types of questions, generate complex answers to multi-faceted queries, solve mathematical problems, write code, translate texts, and can generate texts and elements that did not exist before such as writing articles, emails, and website posts. Social media, summarizing laws, meetings and podcasts, and can also format data and describe products.
Similarities and differences between Google Bard and ChatGPT
The first version of Bard was similar in its work with ChatGPT in that both of them used an artificial intelligence-supported chat bot. The idea of its work is mainly based on the deep learning model "Transformer" developed by Google in 2017, although the ChatGPT bot uses the large language model "LLM". While Google Bard was using an improved version of the Large Language Model known as the Language Model for Dialogue Applications ( LaMDA ), before Google developed Bard and replaced the LaMDA language model on which the bot relied, with a new language model, PaLM 2 , or Path Language Model , which is stronger than previous linguistic models in its ability to logical inference and the use of logic and mathematics.
Bard is superior to ChatGPT bots
1 Real-time update of the knowledge base
The main advantage that the Bard bot has over ChatGPT is that the former is always online and draws its information from the web directly, so the knowledge base will be constantly updated with the Google search engine index, which keeps the information that can be obtained using the bot always up-to-date. Permanent, while the free version of ChatGPT bases its answers on only the pre-trained set of information that was available until 2021, and therefore cannot access any information more recent than that year.
So Google Cool is a more accurate way to get information. Although the paid version ( ChatGPT Plus ) allows the ability to install external add-ons that allow the bot to access and search the Internet to give better results, the use of these add-ons makes the bot's performance very slow, and it depends on collecting information on a limited number of sources.
2 Include tables and pictures in the answers
Both Bard and ChatGPT depend on advanced models of language learning, which makes both applications able to generate and formulate text answers with almost the same efficiency, but when it is required to enhance the answers with visual factors such as adding images, or by adding factors that make the information more coordinated and clear such as tables, Google Bard excels in this aspect, as it includes images related to the topic of the search in the responses, and the user can, after obtaining the text answers from Bard, ask the bot to reformat this information in the form of a table.
The creation of spreadsheets can be a function in itself among the functions performed by the Bard application, where the user can enter any set of data for the application, and then ask him to create a table and format this data in the form of rows and columns. Rather, these rows and columns can be customized and the elements required Put them in, while ChatGPT answers don't allow access to any images, and the application doesn't generate tables.
3 Export, share and edit the results
When you use Bard to find an answer to any question, it becomes easy to share and save the results and edit the answers obtained from the app after exporting them to Google Docs or Gmail Drafts, which is the third feature of the app that has no equivalent in ChatGPT.
All you have to do is write your question in Google Cool and wait for the answer to appear, then press the arrow mark directly below the answer next to the "Google it" button and select the "Export to Docs" option when you want to export the answer to Google Docs, or choose "Draft". in Gmail" when you want to save the answer as a draft on Gmail. Bard also allows the tables it generates to be exported to Google Sheets by clicking on "Export to Sheets" that appears directly below the table, and the user can then open the table and edit or save it.
4 Ask questions and inquiries aloud
Google Bard has a special feature that is not available in ChatGPT, which is its ability to convert voice input into written text, so the user can ask his questions to the bot using only voice instead of writing it in text. This feature saves the user's time and effort if the question he wants to ask the bot is very long, writing it takes a lot of time, while he needs to get an answer and access the required information quickly. All you have to do is press the microphone button next to the text field, start asking the question aloud, check the written text that appears on the screen after the application generated it from the spoken words, before pressing the submit button, and then wait for the bot to answer.
5 Obtaining information according to the geographical location
Often, the topic of the search or the question posed to the bot depends mainly on the geographical location, for example, when you travel to a new city, you may need to know the best restaurants, cafes, or shopping places near you. The user can allow the Bard application to access his geographical location to obtain accurate answers that take into account the geographical location, and it is expected that Google will also link Google Bard with Google Maps, which will enable the application to help the user to determine directions, and give him more accurate results. ChatGPT does not include any means to give the user answers based on their precise geolocation other than the information they have been trained on in advance.
6 Free with unlimited benefits
Although ChatGPT provides a free version unlike the paid version of ChatGPT Plus, which requires a monthly subscription of about $20, the free version of ChatGPT, which is based on GPT 3.5 of the bot, comes with limited features and capabilities. The user needed to upgrade to the latest version of the bot, which is GPT-4, which has greater ability to think logically, find mathematical and programmatic solutions, and has the powers to connect to the Internet to reach more accurate answers, so he will have to upgrade to the paid version of the ChatGPT application, which is known as ChatGPT Plus. Even this paid version of the application does not allow the user to send more than 50 messages to the bot every 4 hours as a maximum.
In contrast, Bard is completely free and allows access to all the advantages, starting from obtaining answers that include information derived directly from the web, or include images or tables, or depend on geographical location, and even exporting these answers, in addition to the ability to ask any number of questions to Bot at any time without a maximum number of messages. All of this is available on Bard completely free of charge in 180 countries around the world and in three different languages.
The accuracy of the information provided by the bot in its answers remains a questionable issue for both applications, as both provide false information based on unreliable sources at times. The Bard bot attempted to remedy this problem by adding a Google it button below each answer given by the bot, allowing the user to navigate to the Google search engine, and browse articles and topics related to the subject of the search on the web, and in this way the user can evaluate for himself the validity of the information based on the degree of The reliability of its source is just as if it were doing a very normal search using the normal Google search engine.
The Google Bard bot tries to take advantage of other Google services, and to employ them together in an integrated manner to provide the best possible performance for the user, and it is expected that Google will link more of its services to the application, such as Google Maps, to improve its performance.