ChatGPT vs. Google Bard vs. Bing: Which AI Chatbot Gives the Best Answers?

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With this week's public release of Google Bard, there are now three AI chatbots competing for your attention: Bard, Microsoft Bing, and ChatGPT.

These systems are at varying stages of development. ChatGPT was released in November 2022 as an experiment from OpenAI, and it quickly became one of the fastest-growing apps of all time. You can try it out for free via chat.openai.com(Opens in a new window), and there are no limits unless the site is overloaded with users, at which point you may be temporarily locked out. (For $20 per month, ChatGPT Plus lifts those restrictions.)

Microsoft followed with the February launch of an AI-powered version of its Bing search engine, which uses an upgraded version of ChatGPT's technology. You'll have to request access, and there are a few things you can do to move up the Bing waitlist. Once inside, queries are currently capped to 150 per day, with 15 back-and-forth exchanges each time, though Microsoft has been adjusting those limits pretty frequently.

Meanwhile, Google Bard—revealed just one day before AI Bing in a move likely intended to steal Redmond's thunder—is still in an experimental phase. Any public use will help train it for its eventual formal release as part of Google Search, the company says, though we don't know when that will be. For now, you can request access to the beta via bard.google.com(Opens in a new window).

You may already have your preferred chatbot, but it's worth giving them all a spin to see what they can do. We put them to the test with the same six questions, and they produced some very different responses.

Since AI is defined by the data it uses, we began by asking each system where it gets its information. While none would fess up about the size of their