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Google's New Bard: Better Than ChatGPT? 🥊
Do Bard's new updates make it better than ChatGPT? Inside Everyday AI: A new AI design assistant, Google's MatCha and AI Brain Chips 🧠
Everyday AI
July 17, 2023
Outsmart The Future
Today in Everyday AI
5 minute read
🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Wondering what the brand new Google Bard is all about? We’re breaking down its new updates to see if it’s better than ChatGPT. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: An AI assistant to manage your design assets, How AI companionship is a national security risk (awkward!), and AI can now creepily/cutely show you what your future kids will look like. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Google’s new AI for breaking down data, UN warns of AI brain chips and how AI is boosting productivity by 66%. (We think it’s more, but OK!) For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: Which AI chat can read the internet the best? Spoiler alert: You’re probably doing this wrong. In AI in 5, we show you which is the winner.
🏆 Digital Drops Giveaway: If only you could get ChatGPT Plus for free. And a professional to show you how to use it. Oh wait…you can! More below
🧠 Leveraging AI 101: So you listed to the podcast and see Bard is actually pretty darn good with the latest updates. How can you get the most out of it? Here’s our 3-step guide! Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Missed out on Friday? Here ya go. We broke down the 101 on ChatGPT, talked about OpenAI’s new partnerships and how Homer Simpson is now an AI singer.
Check it here!
Google Bard Breakdown:
Is it better than ChatGPT? 🤷
New bot, who dis?
Google just announced some massive updates to its Bard bot last week. We already looked at the basics, but now we wanted to dive in a bit deeper.
Wondering just how good it is?
We're breaking down the basics of Bard and diving into its latest updates to see how it stacks up against the powerhouse ChatGPT.
(Spoiler alert: You can talk to Bard, it can talk back to you, it can read images and create websites for you based on your doodles.)
Join the conversation and ask Jordan any question you have about Google Bard here!
Also on the pod today:
• New Google Bard Updates ☝️
• Bard vs. ChatGPT and others 🧑💻️
• Building a website with Bard 🔨
It’ll be worth your 26 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
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Social Media News – Some people are fearing that because of AI, 2024 could be the year of misinformation on social media. Yeah, we agree.
Fun and Weird - This new app called Remini Baby AI Generator can show you what your future kids will look like, along with a bunch of other cool/creepy?/fun features.
The Business of AI – What’s ironic about the US worrying about China passing us in AI advancements is that powerhouses like Apple and Microsoft are the ones fueling China.
Read This – Well it looks like we’re getting to the point where some people are using AI as romantic companions. Little weird, but, yeah, it’s a thing. But what’s interesting about this is the national security risks this poses.
1. Google's MatCha: Making Sense of Charts Like a Pro 📊
Google's new AI, MatCha, is here to make your life easier by understanding charts and doing mathematical reasoning. MatCha reveals the underlying data and solving question-based problems on textual mathematical datasets. It's all about reverse engineering charts to reveal the underlying data and solving question-based problems on textual mathematical datasets. Want to know more? Dive into the details here
2. AI Is Boosting Productivity By 66% 🚀
Does AI make us more productive? Apparently so, according to some new studies published by the Nielsen Norman Group. AI tools like ChatGPT are boosting productivity by a whopping 66% on average across three different studies. From customer service agents to programmers, AI is not just helping the pros, but it's also giving the biggest boost to the greener workers. Check out the full scoop here
3. UN Warns of AI Brain Chips 🧠
The United Nations is sounding the alarm on "potentially harmful" advances in neurotechnology. Brain implants and scans could allow AI to infringe on your private thoughts. While the tech can be life-altering, it may come at a cost, as one woman with epilepsy found out when a neurotech device made her condition worse. Read all about it here, but try not to think about it if you don’t want the chip to read your mind.
4. AI Is Watching Your Driving Habits 🚔
If you thought highways were the last place for Artificial Intelligence, think again. AI is now riding shotgun with American cops, scanning billions of license plate records to spot "suspicious" patterns of movement. An AI system identified a car's journey as typical of a drug trafficker, leading to a successful arrest. Find out more
5. AI: The Biggest Bubble of All Time? 💸
Stability AI's CEO, Emad Mostaque, is predicting a wild ride for AI, calling it the "biggest bubble of all time". He believes AI is still in its early stages and not ready for mass-scale adoption in industries like banking. But don't be fooled, Mostaque sees AI as a $1 trillion investment opportunity, more important than 5G as infrastructure for knowledge. Curious about this AI rollercoaster? Hop on the ride here!
Which AI Chatbot can read the internet best? 🌐
Who among Bard, ChatGPT, Claude 2, and Bing Chat can truly read the internet? 🤔
It's time for an AI showdown!
(Final battle…. fight!)
These AI powerhouses are transforming the way we interact with the internet. But how do they compare when it comes to reading and understanding web content?
Find out in today’s AI in 5!
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🤷♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:
The words ‘ChatGPT’ have become about as commonplace as sports arguments at a backyard BBQ.
(Seriously, though, my Chicago Bears are still gonna suck, y’all. Sorry not sorry.)
ChatGPT has become a prime-time topic, yet Google’s AI chat hasn’t gotten much shine.
Why?
Well, we’re not sure.
So we decided to give it a quick discount double-check.
Google updated Bard with some shiny new features that we talked about last week. So, we dedicated an episode to Bard to see if these new updates were more than bells and whistles.
Our take?
Some really good stuff 👇
Bard can read images
You can talk to Bard and it can talk back
One-click options to change tone, length and share
Bard created a working website out of an ugly sketch LIVE on the show
Let’s check it
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Ok, so Bard’s actually pretty legit with these new updates
If you joined us for our Bard breakdown, you know that these new Google updates have now put Bard (back) on the Chat Map.
Here’s our biggest takeaways: Bard is now our go-to for people to learn AI chats.
Not saying it’s the best. (It’s not)
However, some of the new features Google baked into Bard make it SO beginner friendly, that it’s setting itself up to compete with the Microsoft-backed Open AI.
What do we like most?
Let’s take a look, with our 3-step guide for getting the most out of the new Bard.
1 – Your chats = finally saved 💾
In the past, when people asked if they should use Bard, it was a resounding NO.
Why?
Mainly because you literally couldn’t save your work.
Imagine jumping into Google Docs and not being able to save your work. Or, revisit the doc after restarting your computer or browser. Now you can.
Try this:
Now that Bard can save Chats, start going side-by-side with ChatGPT and Bard.
It’s something we teach all the time — if you’re spending time in ChatGPT, you might as well be copying-and-pasting in Bard (or Bing, or Claude 2) and doubling your output. Sometimes, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with better results.
2 – Better interface = easier to use 😌
Alright, you may not be UI/UX geeks like us.
But the user interface and the user experience really matters.
Being able to share your Bard chats with one click is slick. One-click options for changing the tone are not only extremely powerful, but a joy to use compared to the clunkiness of ChatGPT.
Try this:
This is weird to type: but all beginners should learn AI chatting in Google Bard. These new interface updates make Bard much easier to learn than ChatGPT’s clunkier interface.
Don’t get us wrong — ChatGPT Plus with Plugins is MUCH more powerful than Bard. But for beginners, Bard’s clean interface should be your training wheels into large language models. 🚲
3 – More accessible to all 🗣️
Let’s not overlook accessibility.
Two low-key updates: the ability to speak to Bard and have Bard speak back to you. And that’s all baked-in to the default interface.
Sure, you can Macgyver that setup in ChatGPT, but in Bard… It.Just.Works. For people with certain accessibility challenges, being able to talk and listen to an AI chat is truly amazing.
Try this:
Talk to Bard, and listen back. Even if you’re gucci pounding at the keyboard all day like that one keyboard cat meme, there’s something refreshing about being able to talk to an AI chat and listen to its responses back. Like, we’re finally in the future.
Annnnnnd, for those of us with fat, fumbling fingers, this changes the game while using Bard on mobile.
Now This …
Sure we wanna root against the big guy — but should we all give the new Google Bard a chance?
We think so.
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