How now, thou chatbot Bard?
Anyone who likes words will probably agree that the Bard has a better ring to it than ChatGPT. It’s not about literary pretensions but about the satisfying solidity of signifying words.
Chat sounds ordinary and frivolous; Bard is much grander and more ponderous. ChatGPT is Microsoft’s bot; Bard is Google’s forthcoming one.
In the battle of the bots, Google has arguably shown itself to be better attuned to the vocabulary of branding something that works with words and ideas. (That said, Bard did fluff its first online demo, peddling an inaccuracy with all too much self-assurance.)
When OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public in November, it instantly turned the AI-powered chatbot into a superstar. But Google’s chatbot, Bard ( announced by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on February 6), threatens that stardom with the promise of making Google even friendlier, more intuitive, more helpful, visual, conversational and everything that you’d expect …
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