{"id":1209825,"date":"2023-12-08T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209825"},"modified":"2023-12-08T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:00:14","slug":"round-2-we-test-the-new-gemini-powered-bard-against-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209825","title":{"rendered":"Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chatgpt-vs-bard-round2-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chatgpt-vs-bard-round2.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1440\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Aurich Lawson)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/04\/clash-of-the-ai-titans-chatgpt-vs-bard-in-a-showdown-of-wits-and-wisdom\/\">Back in April<\/a>, we ran a series of useful and\/or somewhat goofy prompts through Google&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/03\/google-says-its-bard-generative-chat-ai-is-out-launches-waitlist\/\">then-new<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.research.google\/2022\/04\/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html\">PaLM-powered<\/a> Bard chatbot and OpenAI&#8217;s (slightly older) ChatGPT-4 to see which AI chatbot reigned supreme. At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/04\/clash-of-the-ai-titans-chatgpt-vs-bard-in-a-showdown-of-wits-and-wisdom\/\">we gave the edge to ChatGPT<\/a> on five of seven trials, while noting that &#8220;it&#8217;s still early days in the generative AI business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the AI days are a bit less \u201cearly,&#8221; and this week&#8217;s launch of a new version of Bard <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/12\/google-launches-gemini-a-powerful-ai-model-it-says-can-surpass-gpt-4\/\">powered by Google&#8217;s new Gemini language model<\/a> seemed like a good excuse to revisit that chatbot battle with the same set of carefully designed prompts. That&#8217;s especially true since <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/12\/google-launches-gemini-a-powerful-ai-model-it-says-can-surpass-gpt-4\/\">Google&#8217;s promotional materials<\/a> emphasize that Gemini Ultra beats GPT-4 in &#8220;30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks&#8221; (though the more limited \u201cGemini Pro&#8221; currently powering Bard <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/civis\/threads\/google-launches-gemini%E2%80%94a-powerful-ai-model-it-says-can-surpass-gpt-4.1497547\/#post-42413300\">fares significantly worse<\/a> in those <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilymbender\/status\/1732763085440774565?s=20\">not-completely-foolproof<\/a> benchmark tests).<\/p>\n<p>This time around, we decided to compare the new Gemini-powered Bard to both ChatGPT-3.5\u2014for an apples-to-apples comparison of both companies\u2019 current \u201cfree&#8221; AI assistant products\u2014and ChatGPT-4 Turbo\u2014for a look at OpenAI\u2019s current \u201ctop of the line&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPT\/comments\/185oi6e\/how_long_is_the_waitlist_for_chatgpt_plus_right\/\">waitlisted<\/a> paid subscription product (Google\u2019s top-level \u201cGemini Ultra&#8221; model won\u2019t be publicly available until next year). We also looked at the April results generated by the pre-Gemini Bard model to gauge how much progress Google\u2019s efforts have made in recent months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989639#p3\">Read 36 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989639&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Back in April, we ran a series of useful and\/or somewhat goofy prompts through Google&#8217;s (then-new) PaLM-powered Bard chatbot and OpenAI&#8217;s (slightly older) ChatGPT-4 to see which AI chatbot reigned supreme. 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