We go back to something that has been a very happening topic for quite some time now - Generative AI bots. To be more specific, as the title would have already told you by now, in today’s episode we compare two of the most popular generative AI bots in the world right now – OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Bard. Both are interactive conversational smart chatbots powered by principles of artificial intelligence, from two of the major tech houses on the planet. Both come with their unique pros and cons.

what is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot by OpenAI that is empowered to have a conversation by generating human-like responses to textual inputs provided by users. ChatGPT has been trained on humongous amounts of data using a large language model.

what is Google Bard?

Like ChatGPT, Google Bard is another AI-powered chatbot. Like ChatGPT, Google Bard can also answer questions and generate text in response to user prompts.

This is as simple as we could explain this, but if you go just by this, then you might feel they are the same thing, just different companies. Well, in a way, it wouldn’t be quite wrong either. But there are quite a few differences too.

The very first point we would like to highlight is the pricing. The basic version of ChatGPT is free for users. However, it has a daily limit of 100 questions, meaning you can ask up to 100 questions to ChatGPT a day for free if you are using the free basic version. However, you can upgrade to the premium version for $20 a month, which would give you faster response times, and open access to many premium features. This is because premium users use GPT-4 which is the latest, more updated, and premium version, whereas free users use GPT-3.5, which is the previous version of the model. If you do not have an existing contract with OpenAI, then you would need to join the waitlist for the ChatGPT API to get access to the same.

Both ChatGPT and Google Bard are chatbots powered by artificial intelligence that has been trained on large natural language models, so their responses could also be similar. Ask the same question to ChatGPT and Google Bard, and you will get quite a similar response from both, except if you ask something that is more time-specific or requires more current information. In that case, the answers would be separate, since, as we mentioned before, ChatGPT has information till 2021 only, whereas Google Bard is constantly updated since it has full access to the updated search library of Google Search.