[codingdave]

Did they?

I ran the exact same prompts through ChatGPT and Bard, and got eerily similar responses. Bard likes bulleted lists better than ChatGPT, but formatting aside the quality of content felt equivalent.

So it seems plausible that Google is behind on productizing and marketing their AI, but I'm not so sure they are behind on the AI itself.

[speedgoose]

Google Bard has been completely destroyed by ChatGPT in every rap battle I read. And rap battles are of course a very accurate benchmarking method.

[uptownfunk]

Probably where the RLHF layer comes in.