ChatGPT and Google Bard are AI chatbots designed to generate input prompts. When used appropriately, ChatGPT and Google Bard can be used to support business processes such as content production and development. Take a look at the features, pros, and cons of each tool to see which one is best for your business.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that generates human-like responses based on text input. It is trained on the basis of a large language model that has trained a large amount of internet text.

What is Google Bard?

Google Bard is another AI chatbot. Like ChatGPT, Google Bard can answer questions and generate text from prompts.

Pricing for ChatGPT and Google Bard

ChatGPT

The basic version of ChatGPT is free and limited to 100 questions per day. Subscriptions to ChatGPT Plus cost $20 per month, and subscribers get faster response times, access to new features, and access to GPT-4 (the free version currently uses GPT-3.5). Organizations that do not have a contract with OpenAI can join a waitlist to gain access to the ChatGPT API.

Google Bard

Google Bard is free and offers unlimited questions. Since the company's main profit comes from advertising, Google's products generally remain free.

Feature comparison: ChatGPT vs. Google Bard

Text generation

ChatGPT and Google Bard are useful tools for generating text – from summarizing information to composing poems to writing articles. ChatGPT is trained on internet text, while Google Bard is trained on a specific set of conversational data. This has led some to believe that ChatGPT is better at generating paragraphs, summaries, and other text-based processing tasks, while Google Bard is better at conversation.

However, because ChatGPT is based on mostly data collected before 2021 and does not have access to all the material on the internet like Google Bard, it may produce outdated responses. For example, if your business wants to learn Google Bard using ChatGPT, ChatGPT can't answer.

Conversation response

Both ChatGPT and Google Bard are trained on datasets containing tens of billions of parameters, which results in their responses being very similar to humans. In addition, GPT-4 has more than 100 trillion parameters.

However, because Google Bard is trained on data with instant access to the internet and a more real-time library, it can provide a more current response than ChatGPT's response. For example, if you ask, "What happened yesterday in Budapest?" Google Bard can give the main points of several news events that ChatGPT cannot.

Use context

ChatGPT can gather information from previous conversations and users' previous interactions, which means context can be used when making a chat. Bard can also use context in conversations and can continue the user's conversation.

For example, if you ask, "What do you think of the description of the new hire I mentioned the other day?" Bard can answer using previous clues.

Advantages and disadvantages of ChatGPT

Advantages of ChatGPT

Fast response time: ChatGPT is faster than previous AI chatbots, making businesses more efficient. ChatGPT Plus is faster than Google Bard.
Ability to generate human-like responses: ChatGPT can generate more natural text than previous AI chatbots, largely due to the large amount of data it has been trained on.
User-friendly: ChatGPT can perform a variety of tasks, from translating to compressing passages to generating lyrics, and it can do this for a wide audience. Its simple interface and simple response make it a simple tool for those with no technical expertise.
Support for multiple programming languages: ChatGPT supports Python, JavaScript, Java, and more than a dozen other programming languages.
Support for more than 20 languages: ChatGPT "can understand and generate" text in more than 20 languages.

Disadvantages of ChatGPT

Limited accuracy and reliability: Chat GPT's answer may contain errors because it is using training data. It's also not up to date; The last update was in September 2021.
Hidden bias: ChatGPT may produce biased responses because the dataset it is trained on may be biased. The source material itself may contain biases, which may affect the responses provided by ChatGPT. For example, ChatGPT is not good at answering non-English questions and often produces errors.
No real-world understanding: ChatGPT is limited to the dataset it is trained on, and while it can produce impressive answers, it is based on what is available online, not on what has been learned through real human experience.

Pros and cons of Google Bard

Pros of Google Bard

High-quality text generation: Google Bard can generate human-like text that can be used for a range of tasks, from answering queries to summarizing material to translating text.
Large datasets: Google Bard pre-trains large sets of text and code, enabling it to produce more comprehensive and informative responses, not just small models.
Creative text output: Google Bard can help create all kinds of text, from job descriptions to job letters to writing reports, making it a versatile tool for businesses.
Write code in many programming languages: Google claims that Bard can generate code in multiple programming languages for simple and complex tasks, and can even generate code based on prompts for writing in natural language.
Language support: Bard supports U.S. English, Japanese, and Korean, and can translate into other languages.

Disadvantages of Google Bard

Compute resources: Large transformer models use a lot of compute resources.

Precautions when using AI chatbots

ChatGPT and Google Bard are still in development and may contain bugs or biases. Therefore, users should critically evaluate the information provided by ChatGPT and Google Bard to ensure its accuracy.

In addition, there are privacy concerns with the use of ChatGPT or Google Bard, which collect personal information in the same way as search engines. Your IP address, text and even information linked to you (such as phone calls, emails, and social media) may be collected.

Should your organization use ChatGPT or Google Bard?

ChatGPT and Google Bard are free, unless you opt for the paid ChatGPT Plus, both AI chatbots are trained on large natural language models, meaning they tend to respond similarly.

Google Bard has several features that help it stand out. First, you can get a "draft" version of the response, providing various responses. In addition, Google Bard is completely up-to-date and has access to online information.

ChatGPT, on the other hand, is based on data as of September 2021.

It's important to remember that both AI chatbots can have errors and biases, and collecting your personal data – not just the information you enter – can be a tool for abuse by bad actors. Learn more about how generative AI works and its pros and cons.

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We evaluated these products based on the default free versions of ChatGPT and Google Bard. We tested how two AI chatbots answered the same questions and asked ChatGPT and Google Bard about more current news content to test their limitations.

ChatGPT vs Google Bard