Comparing Bing Chat , Open AI chat GPt and Google bard: Chatting with BOB
First half of 2023 has
been exciting month in terms of further developments in the AI ecosystem,
while Meta launched new Llama version. MS integrated Open AIs chat GPT
capabilities into its Azure stack of services as well as power apps, flows
and AI generator. Microsoft also launched Bing Chat public and Enterprise
version rapidly scaling GPT 4 based chat searches to an enterprise grade tool
with many additional capabilities.
Google Bard which works on
PaLM - 2 is also improving gradually ,
I decided to compare Bing , Open AI chat GPT and Bard (BOB) form an end user
perspective with publicly available versions (Not Enterprise versions). For
the purpose of this comparison I have ignored any open AI chat GPT plug ins which
may extend its functionalities and allow it to perform some more tasks.
GUI:-
While Open AI GPT has
still been running on same GUI from last 6 months or so its other
counterparts have not only done some improvements but also used their
ecosystems to integrate their search Bots with it
Open AI CHAT GPT has
prompt input, output area as well as historical view. Whereas if we look at
Bing Chat it has added image and voice inputs with text for prompt input . It
provides latest web indexed up to date information post searching from
internet and citations as well as follow up prompt suggestions related to topic.
One of the key drawback of Bing chat is that its currently locked in with MS
edge and doesn’t work with any other browser.
Bard is also
well integrated with google search. Its prompt input supports both text and
voice (No image yet) but you can provide an image of video for it to analyse
via URL for example you can directly give it a you tube video link and ask
Bard to explain same .Once the output is provided there is option to convert
response text to voice as well as share or google and provide feedback. The
output of each prompt is provided in 3 draft variants and any one of those
can be further explored.
Up to date
information:
Both Bing chat
and Google Bard use indexed internet UpToDate information to provide prompt
response whereas open AI has still been restricted to 2021 data making Bing
and Bard immediate first choice for users to get their answers based on live
information.
Citations:
One of the key
struggle for organizations and users developing AI use cases is to get the
clarity and source of information behind the output provided and Bing and
Bard has now taken next step by providing link to citations of their source
information whereas in Open AI chat users are still left wondering form which
exact source the information has been provided.
Custom doc
training:
Bing and Bard
have provided easy way to provide response on custom user docs , Bing can
access links to a web page or a document which Is opened in MS edge and provide summarization , answers on those
document which is also possible for Bard but same is not an off the shelf
functionality with Open AI chat GPT.
Image and
Speech handling:
While Open AI
GPT is still a text-based interface even after having a sibling Dall E
available for image generation its synergies have not been used. Microsoft
Bing has combined both images and text and not only it can recognize images
but also use Dall-E to generate images for various prompts. Bing is also able
to understand speech prompts.
Google bard has
also extended its functionalities to speech where it is able to understand
speech prompt and also read out the outcome to users. These functionalities
represent true inclusiveness for AI which will enable Bing and Bard to reach
larger section of users.
speed
& Temperature control:
All 3 chats
support temperature control helping response to be either more factual or
more creative.
Since Bing and
Bard are actually using internet search as well they seem a bit slower then
Open AI GPT which starts generating response as soon as prompt is submitted.
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Summary: Overall
Microsoft has leaped ahead in using its mighty ecosystem and integrating GPT4
based bing chat with its various platforms thus creating a perfect package for
organizations which can be adopted rapidly without much work for their custom
data training. Its key to highlight while GPT 4 has been found to be better
then GPT 3.5 , recent study by UC Berkley and Stanford which compared two lates
versions of GPT 4 released between March and June have raised concern about GPT
4s performance and accuracy for mathematical calculations . Google
Bard has also been catching up rapidly and available for enterprise use by
Google workspace. Open AI GPT has been released for commercial use with various
plans and is open for enterprise use either directly or via API integration.
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