bard vs chatgpt

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Chat GPT-3: A new era begins

On 30th of November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT-3 (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer). The AI-driven bot uses 175 billion parameters that help in providing unique answers. It has been structured for conversational language that gene human-like responses to text input. It can also be employed for various natural language processing tasks such as language translation, question answering, and text summarization. In the first five days of its launch, more than 10 lakh users registered on the platform. By the end of January, 2023 ChatGPT was averaging about 13 million visitors per day. And it remains the most searched technology even today in all search engines. 

Tech enthusiasts were overwhelmed by Chat GPT-3 because they found it better than Google in the search function. Instead of the various links that Google provided as a result of the query, chat GPT-3 came up with the most viable answer. As its popularity grew briskly, Google was under duress to announce its solution before the entire world caught the bug. The fact that Chat GPT-3 was backed by Microsoft(Google's biggest rival) just added to the urgency.

On 07th of February 2023, Google announced a new conversational AI technology that will open up to public testing called Bard. As the touted leader of AI technology, Google had to strike a crucial balance between testing their AI tool for accuracy and timing the release before the Chat GPT-3 became a mammoth that would be hard to dislodge. 

What is Bard?

Bard is an experimental conversation AI service powered by LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), a large language model developed and released by Google in 2021. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would initially release Bard on a lightweight version of LaMDA, enabling its search engine to distill complex information and multiple perspectives into simple formats. 

ChatGPT Vs. Bard

• The Google Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) will draw inferences from the web results that are more current, while ChatGPT can only access information from up until 2021. 
• ChatGPT is a free to use tool by the audience, with an additional Chat GPT Plus service that will be a paid version. However, Bard is presently open only to trusted testers and will be released to the general public at a later point in time.
• Bard AI application will be integrated with Google search, while Chat GPT-3 will soon be integrated with Microsoft run Bing search engine.

As AI technology evolves and provides unique and human-like responses to questions posed, a large segment of the public are apprehensive about the accuracy, customization, lack of emotion, repetitive patterns, contextual inconsistencies, and factual errors. However, these drawbacks are likely to get mitigated as more people work on the platform and provide consistent information.

Chat GPT-3 Vs. Bard battle has just started, and it indeed will be interesting times in the future as the AI-driven tools will continue to outdo each other in terms of performance, unique solutions, human-like responses, depth, and range of subjects that they can address. But before the public makes any decision, it is good to remind ourselves of the below.

“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” – Eliezer Yudkowsky        

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