Is Google Bard that Good? Here’s What You Need to Know

Want to know the latest development in Google BARD, then you are at right place. The article will cover all the major announcement about BARD in Google I/O 2023.

When OpenAI launched its powerful AI chatbot (ChatGPT 3) in November 2022 (capable of creating complex codes, remembering previous conversations, and producing results in multiple languages), people eagerly awaited Google’s response. In February 2023, Google launched BARD, considered an answer to ChatGPT. But it didn’t meet the people’s expectations as it was not good in coding, could not remember the previous conversations, could produce the result only in English, and was initially available only in the USA and UK.

But it’s not like it was worst in every scenario; BARD was able to draw responses from the internet, which makes it up-to-date, while ChatGPT can produce the result based only on the trained data, whose cutoff date ends on September 2021.

Now, Google has announced some major updates in BARD in its Annual Developer Conference (Google I/O – 2023). So in this article, we will give you a walkthrough of all the latest updates in BARD, a head-to-head comparison with ChatGPT, suggest prompts to both ChatGPT and BARD and compare the results.

Now, let’s start with what Google Bard is.

What is Google Bard?

Bard is a conversational AI chatbot that uses PaLM-2 (or Pathways Language Model, a Large Language Model trained on a massive dataset of text and code) to interact with users. With PaLM-2, Bard’s math, logic, and reasoning skills made a huge leap forward, underpinning the ability to help developers with programming.

Like ChatGPT, it allows us to perform various tasks, such as generating texts and codes, translating languages, and answering queries in an informative way. But dissimilar to ChatGPT, it can generate responses to date.

let’s check it out.

Example: Let’s check whether Google Bard knows about our migration from Naukri Learning to Shiksha Online.

Yes, that’s the correct answer.

As a creative and helpful collaborator, it can supercharge your imagination, boost productivity, and help you bring ideas to life. 

It can perform tasks such as:

• Coding: It can generate, debug, and explain codes.
• Content Creation: It can generate creative content like blog posts, articles, and tutorials.
• Translation: It can translate the text from one language to another.
• Customer Service: It can provide customer services, such as answering questions and resolving issues.

Major Updates and Announcements on Google Bard in Google I/O – 2023

At Google I/O 2023, Google announces many new features for Google Bard, including:

• Dark Mode: Now, Bard has a dark mode, which can be enabled by clicking on the option in the lower left corner.
• Integration with Third-Party Plugins and Google Products: It can be integrated with various third-party plugins and Google products, such as Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Spotify, Wolfram Mathematica, Indeed etc.
• Image Promoting and Image Generation: Google has collaborated with Adobe to generate high-quality images using Adobe Firefly (it is a generative AI model that can create images from text descriptions). Creating custom illustrations, diagrams, and other visual content will be helpful.
• New Languages: Bard is now available in English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. And in the upcoming few weeks, it will be available in 40+ more languages across the globe.

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Difference Between Google Bard and ChatGPT

Parameter	Google BARD	ChatGPT
Language Model	PaLM-2 (previously using LaMDA)	GPT
Model Type	Bi-directional Autoregressive	Unidirectional Autoregressive
Training Model	Reinforcement Learning	Supervised Learning
Data Source	Human-Generated Conversation	Diverse Internet Text and Human Generated
Prompt Design	Agent Observe full Conversation	Single-turn prompt-based Conversation
Accuracy	More accurate than GPT for factual questions.	It is better for creating text formats.
Pricing	Free	Free (but paid for using ChatGPT – 4.)
Language Support	English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish	50+
Use Cases	Building dialogue agents.	Open-ended conversation and text generation

Must Check: Difference Between Google Bard and ChatGPT

Now, as mentioned above, it’s time for some prompts to compare the results of Google Bard and ChatGPT

Pompt-1: Who is President of India?

Since BARD is trained on real-time data, it generates the correct result, but the detail was slightly incorrect since Mrs Murmu was the Vice-President of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), not Beeju Janta Dal (BJD). While ChatGPT is trained for the data before September 2021, it generates the incorrect result.

Prompt-2: Check Plagiarism and Mention Score

In Google, you can’t check the plagiarism and source of the content, while in ChatGPT, you will get the reference or source.

Note: 

1. When you search for something on BARD, it always shares the reference or source.
2. You can’t rely on the result of ChatGPT, as the above write-up is 18% plagiarized (source from Grammarly).

Prompt-3 I want to learn about Cloud Computing. Identify and share the most important 20% of learning from this topic that will help me understand 80% of it.

If you have a close look at the result of both Bard and ChatGPT. Both generate almost the same result. But Bard has something more:

1. It mentions the source.
2. It also suggests some related topics.

With only these three examples, we can’t decide which is better. Both ChatGPT and BARD have some advantages and limitations too.

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