Ars Technica ran a series of questions past ChatGPT and the PaLM2-powered Google Bard. Bard didn’t do that well. Now that Gemini Pro powers Bard, they had another bite at the apple:

This time around, we decided to compare the new Gemini-powered Bard to both ChatGPT-3.5—for an apples-to-apples comparison of both companies’ current “free” AI assistant products—and ChatGPT-4 Turbo—for a look at OpenAI’s current “top of the line” waitlisted paid subscription product (Google’s top-level “Gemini Ultra” model won’t be publicly available until next year). We also looked at the April results generated by the pre-Gemini Bard model to gauge how much progress Google’s efforts have made in recent months.

Given they test the ability of an AI chatbot to write ‘Dad jokes’, it’s well worth a read.