Google Bard
Google Bard is here, and we've managed to get early access to the search giant's AI-powered chatbot. While Microsoft was getting everyone finally excited about its Bing search engine by adding ChatGPT, Google has been working on its own.
Despite a less than impressive debut, where it returned an incorrect answer to a question, there's a lot of excitement about how Google has approached its own chatbot. Could this be a revolution in how we search? Read on for our hands-on impression.
Design
Off the bat, the user interface (UI) of Google Bard surpasses ChatGPT’s dark and dreary layout. The UI is bright and carries the familiar Google motif we’ve grown accustomed to and everything feels familiar despite the fact you’re interacting with a completely new product.
The layout is clean and you are met with a bunch of new features, like the option to speak to Google Bard and the ability to see all the different drafts Bard had before coming up with the first response you get.
You can edit the text of questions already asked and restart the conversation from any point, and depending on your prompts or questions a little button shows up underneath Bard’s response that lets you Google the response and see if there are any related searches.
Overall we’re looking at a slick and sophisticated user interface that screams polished, poised and ready to go.
Performance
In terms of performance, it’s hard not to be blown away by Bard.
As soon as you enter the chat you’re greeted with a helpful and rather endearing self-introduction from Bard (an incredibly sweet name Google). Bard admits it won’t get everything right and welcomes feedback before giving you a revolving list of potential questions.
Bard’s tone of voice and temperament is strikingly human and incredibly easy to talk to, you feel like you are chatting with a friendly face. It’s unassuming and charming, incredibly helpful and always ready to apologize and admit its failings without hesitation. The chatbot seems just as excited to talk to you as you are to talk to it!
In comparison to other chatbot models like Bing AI and ChatGPT, the response time between putting in a prompt and having the bot respond is astoundingly fast. Bard was quick to respond no matter the nature of the prompt, whether we were asking it how it was trained and the different ways we can interact with it - did someone say Alexa integration? - or asking it to write a review of a product that doesn’t exist.
Whereas other chatbots let you sit and watch the bot ‘think’ of a response, Bard spits out sizeable responses in a blink. We’re very excited to chat with Bard more and see what else it can do, but so far we’re very impressed.
This is a flash hands on, giving you our instant reaction to the product. We'll continue to update this hands-on review as we spend more time with Google Bard.
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