For the past week, I've been asking Bing Chat the exact same random queries that I've been
asking the Google Assistant on my Nest Hub Max, for example, what are the notes in the
C Major pentatonic scale?
Notice that Bing gave me suggestions on what I could do next and how to play the scale
on guitar.
Let's try another one.
Is Whatsoever a word?
This one I'd say is more of a tie.
Both gave a definition, an example of the word, and both let me know whatsoever is an
adverb which of course then prompted me to ask what is an adverb again?
Google got confused with that query.
So I had to rephrase my question to simply what is an adverb?
And then it was able to answer it.
I’d say Bing’s examples here are slightly better but both definitions are good.
All right, last random example.
How do you play the How to Train Your Dragon score on piano?
Google sent me right to a YouTube video on this topic.
Which is actually great when you ask the assistant on a Nest Display, but Bing again gave me
more thorough suggestions where I could get sheet music for the score from and give me
more videos to choose from.
Overall, Bing Chat’s answers are more thorough than the Google Assistant in my experience,
so far.
But Google still has an advantage here because the Google Assistant at this point has been
built into so many different Android devices and assistant-powered devices.
But Bing has another feature right now that Google and the Google Assistant simply can't
match.
And that's Bing's compose feature, which like Chat GPT lets you compose paragraphs of text
on a given topic.
For example, I asked Bing Chat to write a script for our YouTube channel comparing Bing
Chat and the Google Assistant, and while brie,f what a compiled is actually decent.
It let me know that Bing Chat is also available in the Skype app, as well as the Bing mobile
app.
not just in the new Edge browser.
And that Bing Chat is powered by Open AI's new language learning model: Chat GPT 4.0.
Here’s another one, let’s say I have a blog about music and want to write about why
the How To Train Your Dragon score is so good.
I can use Bing's Compose feature as a starting off point and you can see that what it spits
out is actually pretty decent.
But then I realized I actually want to talk about the idea of leitmotifs, how John Powell
uses them, and then how his use of leitmotifs compares to other famous composers, like John
Williams.
So I can now go back and expand the prompt that I give Bing with that new information.
And you'll see that the summary that it generates is actually a pretty good starting off point.
Now, the obvious downside with this feature is Bing right now doesn't cite where exactly
the info is scraped from.
It certainly pulled it from somewhere.
Now, if I didn't know anything about a particular topic and I asked Bing Chat or Chat GPT to
write up something for me, and then I didn't fact check it.
That's where you can get into serious issues with this technology today.
But back to the Bing Chat versus Google Assistant comparison.
Now, Bing Chat’s answers are more thorough and the compose feature specifically, is very
good for specific use cases, especially something like an email reply and that's where I think
the trouble really lies ahead for Google if they cannot figure out how to make the Google
Assistant match the thoroughness of Bing Chat and also come out with new products that can
match the compose features.
But Microsoft by not having a phone OS, ambient computing devices, and they shut down their
Cortana voice assistant, that significantly limits their reach.
And I found that having a Nest Hub Max on my desk, always ready to answer my queries,
that's much faster than the more antiquated experience of having to go open a browser
and use Bing or Google for a quick search.
But let me know in the comments.
What you think?
And the next video I think you should watch is our review of the second gen Nest Hub:
Google's latest assistant powered display, which is a really interesting device because
it can also track your sleep and you can display your photos from Google Photos on it.
You can get to that review by clicking on the thumbnail here.
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