Google has finally launched ‘Bard’ their version of OpenAI popular ChatGPT, and how does it compare? Read to find out.
Right now, Google Bard is only available to a small amount of the public for a full day, we’ve been lucky enough with the opportunity to use Google’s AI chatbot, and well… we’re getting inconsistencies with the AI.
Highlights
How to get early access to Bard
Google confirmed Bard is currently only available in the UK & US. If you’re over the age of 18 in either of these countries, then you can sign up for early access to Google’s chatbot using a personal Gmail account. Once you have done this, Google will contact you once they approve your account and Bard has been made available to you.
Although there are alternative ways to gain access, Google-related schemes such as Woman Techmakers will contact you for early access.
Bard currently is only in the English language, but we guess that Google plans to expand their chatbot to multiple counties and languages in the near future.
What can you use Google Bard for?
Bard can be used to boost your productivity and ideas and fuel your knowledge base about a topic or subject that you have no knowledge about. You might ask Bard for specific recipes, give you tips on how to write more concise blogs and even build a brand structure.
So, how does Digital Marketing Community feel about Bard?
There has been widespread, noticeable inconsistency with Bard, which rarely cites sources it finds the information from, leaving many SEOs concerned that using Bard will negatively impact their websites.
Not using citations has drawn SEOs to currently stay clear of using Bard due to the quality and authenticity of its answers, but Google doesn’t hide the fact that their AI chatbot is going to make mistakes and is likely to respond with potentially offensive language.
Google Bard vs Open AI ChatGPT
Bard is really similar to ChatGPT as it’s trained on billions of parameters and huge data sets to produce an answer for you and is currently not connected to the internet, but really…what are the key differences?
Speed & Accuracy
One key difference is the speed of the response; this could be due to the millions if not billions, of users on ChatGPT as opposed to the small number of users on Bard.
Another key difference is if you ask Bard to write a 500-word article, it will produce a piece of content in a range of 10% shorter word count than what you asked for. Meanwhile, ChatGPT produces a piece of content over the estimated word count amount by 10%, but this can vary from query to query.
Language
As Bard is limited to the English language only due to being in the beta phase of testing, ChatGPT outpowers it by knowing multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin, Italian, Japanese and Korean, though its proficiency in responses varies by language and its primary language is English, but, we all know Google can translate languages pretty well, so we think it will be a short amount of time before they implement this.
Coding
ChatGPT is known for producing great code, especially GPT-4. There was a recent case study completed at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and University College London that compared the chatbot’s performance against standard automated program repair techniques and two prevalent deep learning approaches. Their findings, published in arXiv, revealed that ChatGPT was on par with the deep learning methods and even yielded notably superior results compared to the standard program repair techniques. Despite this, Google has disclosed that its language model, Bard, is still acquiring coding knowledge; hence, this feature is currently unavailable.
When will Google Bard be released?
Google Bard is currently only limited to a small number of people at one time, which is likely the learning phase or, as most people refer to it, beta testing, so it’s currently hard to predict when it will be widely available for everyone.
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai claimed that we would see Google Bard leveraged to enhance Google Search, which could be seen in the next few months.
We would estimate that Google Bard will be available for public release next year, and we could see another Google Algorithm update to accompany the Bard release.
How to sign up for Google Bard
To use the beta version of Google Bard, you have to sign up with your personal email at Google Bard’s official website at https://bard.google.com/.
Click on the blue “Join waitlist” button to join the waitlist.
