ChatGPT vs. Bing: What's Should You Use ?

ChatGPT is seeing competition from Microsoft's Bing  Here's a breakdown

Not all AI chatbots are built equal. In the tests below, we compared the response from the paid version of ChatGPT using GPT-4 (versus 3.5 for the free version) with the response from the ChatGPT version integrated with the search engine Bing.

Main difference

Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT all aim to provide human-like answers to your questions, but they all work differently. Bing starts with the same GPT 4 technology as ChatGPT, but can go beyond text to generate images. Both ChatGPT and Bing use the same technology, but entering the same query in both will not return the same results. This is due to the nature of generative AI. Unlike traditional search, which aims to rank the most relevant links, AI chatbots create text from scratch by gathering from datasets and creating new responses. For example, if you ask a chatbot to write a poem about Pikachu's love for ketchup twice in a row, you'll get a different answer each time. Another reason why posting the same question on ChatGPT and Bing gives different results is because Bing adds its own layer on top of his GPT-4.

The fun part about using AI chatbots is giving them silly prompts and seeing what they spew out. Watching the chatbot create rhythms and meters in real time is a fascinating exercise.

Breaking down complex topics

is one thing for AI chatbots to provide information on complex topics. Even more impressive is its ability to extract that information for different audiences. In this quiz, we asked Bing, Bard and ChatGPT to explain quantum physics to her fourth graders.
Of the three, ChatGPT did its best to introduce young minds to the intricacies of quantum physics. I used the simple example of a tethered toy to illustrate quantum entanglement, where two particles are connected even though they are far apart. Bard wrote most of the text for this query, but the language was more complex and probably not fully understood by a 4th grader. The bard also fell into the same trap, using difficult words such as "subatomic" and "proportional", which may be too difficult for elementary school children.

No chatbot stood out in this test, but ChatGPT provided the most informative answers.

This is just the beginning

As it stands, ChatGPT (paid version) is the best chatbot right now, with more human and detailed answers than Bing. But these are products that are constantly evolving. We should see improvements as Microsoft and OpenAI feed more data into AI and continue optimizing. Until then, use ChatGPT