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You’ve probably heard a lot about bothBing Chatand ChatGPT in recent weeks.
And you’re probably thinking about using one or both.
Green and blue robots representing ChatGPT and Bing, created in Bing Image Creator
Bing Chat is in some ways quite likeChatGPT.
So, there are definite similarities in the way the two operate.
However, Bing Chat has advantages that, right now, ChatGPT simply doesn’t.
Bing search is a crucial part of Bing Chat.
Bing Chat has the Bing search engine
Eventually, ChatGPT will have browsing capabilities.
Some early testers can even try it out right now.
But the most up to date publicly available version does not have access to the live internet.
Bing Chat uses its additional search engine powers to get the right information.(Image credit: Windows Central)
In fact, the default GPT-3.5 version has limited knowledge of the world after 2021.
This leads to some serious limitations when compared to Bing Chat.
Microsoft’s chatbot has the Bing search engine hooked up to it.
ChatGPT isn’t connected to the web and so doesn’t have the right response.(Image credit: Windows Central)
The images below show a simple example of where Bing Chat succeeds with up-to-date information and ChatGPT does not.
But it explains why it can’t give me the rest of the information I seek.
For beginners, all this means a much easier to live with experience and less likelihood of frustration.
Bing Image Creator on the web.
Built-in Bing Image Creator
ChatGPT is entirely a text-based experience.
Bing Image Creatoris based on DALL-E, another OpenAI tool, and one which is separate to GPT.
You might expect that DALL-E creations could be asked for in ChatGPT, but you’d be wrong.
ChatGPT can’t tap into OpenAI’s DALL-E so all you get are words.(Image credit: Windows Central)
It feels like something only nerds would be interested in using.
By contrast, Bing Chat is almost friendly.
But it goes far beyond this.
By contrast, Bing Image Creator is built into Bing Chat.(Image credit: Windows Central)
Bing Chat has built in voice search on mobile, whereas ChatGPT does not support it officially anywhere.
and break them down into more digestible chunks for you.
While you could do the same with ChatGPT, it’s not as convenient.
Bing Chat will offer further suggestions after every response, something ChatGPT doesn’t do.
Bing Chat allows you to do this in real time.
I also find that Bing Chat does a better job, as illustrated in the images below.
Using this prompt:
Summarize this page and generate a bullet point list of key takeaways.
Bing Chat is a key part of the Sidebar feature in Microsoft Edge.
Bing Chat in the sidebar can summarize the web page you’re currently browsing.(Image credit: Windows Central)
ChatGPT can summarize the same webpage, but with less information than Bing Chat.(Image credit: Windows Central)
Bing Chat is more accessible for beginners.
