Bing Chat vs. ChatGPT: An interesting sibling rivalry

I got access to Bing Chat last week after waiting a month. Bing Chat uses the similar but more advanced AI technology of ChatGPT. After the release of ChatGPT, Microsoft has already invested more than $3 billion in it and plans to invest about $10 billion, which makes Bing Chat and ChatGPT siblings. Irrespective of that, one can’t help but compare technologies.

A few key points on how Bing Chat and ChatGPT differ:

• As Bing Chat is part of the search engine, it gives up-to-date information by accessing the web and gives reference to the source of the content. ChatGPT can’t provide up-to-date answers to questions about current events. It uses a pre-defined pool of data.

• Bing Chat is free to use, but there are restrictions on the number of conversations per session and day. Currently, it is ten chats per session and a total of 120 chats per day. ChatGPT is free, but optional paid version users have priority.

• “ChatGPT may be more flexible and creative in generating the content, but it may also generate some inappropriate or harmful content sometimes.” [Source - Bing Chat]

Overall, from a user experience point of view, I found ChatGPT better for its simplicity and more humane response than Bing Chat.