[Random_Person]

I've been rather unimpressed with Bard when asking it "common sense" type of information. It's limited memory is also a problem when trying to have a meaningful conversation with depth.

I spent a few hours last night trying to work on a story outline with Bard's help and while individual responses were sometimes okay, Bard regularly forgot about plot points and character traits we decided on earlier in the conversation and that was frustrating. ChatGPT is much better at conversational memory, but provided much less interesting results to individual queries.

Unlike other commenters, I think these artificial limitations aren't about spending or competency, but rather out of fear. Google is afraid of their bot turning racist, or saying things that could embarrass them.

[enlyth]

It already did a pretty good job of embarrassing them, social media is full of Bard failure screenshots. It couldn't even write a Javascript function to add two numbers.

[Random_Person]

Yeah, some of them have been hilarious.