[dba-Tech] Bing vs. Bard

[Rocky Smolin]

Here's an interesting comparison - somewhat long but I skipped down to the
conclusion:

Bing vs. Bard: We Compared Both Chatbots to See Which Is Better (msn.com)
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/scienceandtechnology/bing-vs-bard-we-compared-both-chatbots-to-see-which-is-better/ar-AA198h78#:~:text=Microsoft%20was%20early%20out%20the%20gate%20with%20its,making%20its%20Bard%20chatbot%20available%20to%20the%20public.>

where the author noted:

I made new connections between ideas trying to provoke Bard to respond and
then poking holes in its responses in the same way I might, trying to
explain something to a stranger who doesn’t understand the subject matter.
These chatbots will continue to improve and change; they already have since
launch. Directed integrations of generative AIs in apps may even end up
being more valuable than an open-ended conversation. But for now, if any
use is found in Bing and Bard today, it’s in the act of actually talking to
them, not necessarily the response that comes from them being used.

But I’d go a step further. The value of the chat interface for finding and
recomposing text isn’t the time it saves you or the work it automates. It’s
the thinking you must do to get it to give you your desired response.

I made new connections between ideas trying to provoke Bard to respond and
then poking holes in its responses in the same way I might, trying to
explain something to a stranger who doesn’t understand the subject matter.
These chatbots will continue to improve and change; they already have since
launch. Directed integrations of generative AIs in apps may even end up
being more valuable than an open-ended conversation. But for now, if any
use is found in Bing and Bard today, it’s in the act of actually talking to
them, not necessarily the response that comes from them being used.

r
P.S. Getting an AI to generate usable code is still, IMO, the Holy Grail of
AI. Probably one of the last areas to be mastered by AI.