ChatGPT Vs. Google's Bard - first impressions

I have been a big fan of ChatGPT for the last month. I have been blown away by how helpful this can be for marketing professionals. It can break down the text and create social media posts (including hashtag suggestions and emojis), punch up plain text, and create data for demonstration purposes. Data includes names, dates, and such. This is helpful when you want to show a skill or explain something without sharing confidential data.

Bard is Google's large language modelreleased to the general public this past week. Bard is very similar to ChatGPT. ZDnet said best: "Bard is Google's experimental, conversational, AI chat service. It is meant to function similarly to?ChatGPT, with the biggest difference being that Google's service will pull its information from the web.?" (Source https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-google-bard-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/)

Comparing the two services, ChatGPT has the edge over Bard. ChatGPT has returned better results than what I was after over Bard. Here are some issues I have had:

• I several paragraphs of text and asked it to rewrite into two sections, at most six sentences each. Bard did rewrite it, but not into two paragraphs. It added an extra paragraph more than the original text. I went from 4 to 5 sections, asked it to redo the response and it gave me an almost identical reaction.
• Another thing that Bard did was put in random percentages. It would expand on writing or rewriting a paragraph and put in sentences like "35% of people prefer) and I had no clue where it got the data. I didn't see any annotations. Using this for a presentation or work can cause issues if you need to know where the data came from.

AI services could be better, but there are still some issues to work out.

• One problem I had with both services is finding the correct prompts to get precisely what I wanted; what I think should bring the response only sometimes leads to what I am after. I had to break out the thesaurus to find similar words.
• The next problem is exporting results is a problem. It's okay to copy the response in ChatGPT; there is a copy button. However, there's no way to export the entire string you created. Bard doesn't let you click a button to copy. You can either copy and paste manually or export to Gmail/Docs.

I will continue to use both of these services, but I have found for my purposes that ChatGPT is better than Bard. I know that as both of these grow, they will improve significantly. I'll have to check back in a year and see how they compare, but I'm excited about the future of AI.