Google Bard Cheat Sheet: AI Chatbot's Capabilities and Limitations

Google Bard is an experimental conversational AI chatbot developed by Google. Bard uses a large language model called PaLM 2 to generate natural language responses to user prompts and questions.

Some key capabilities of Google Bard include:

- Summarizing content - Bard can summarize long text passages, web pages, articles, etc.

- Comparing items - Ask Bard to compare products, services, web pages, etc. and it will highlight differences in a table.

- Making suggestions - Bard can suggest books, movies, music, etc. based on your interests.

- Explaining concepts - Ask Bard to explain any topic or event at an easy or more advanced level.

- Brainstorming ideas - Bard can rapid fire creative ideas for projects, promotions, papers, etc.

- Drafting text - Give Bard an outline and it can write blog posts, essays, reports, etc.

- Coding - Bard can generate and debug code in over 20 programming languages.

- Searching - Bard can answer questions and also perform standard keyword searches.

However, Bard does have some limitations to be aware of. It has a limited context window, so may forget earlier parts of a long conversation. Bard can also display inaccurate or offensive information that does not represent Google's views.

Hot Take:

Google Bard has exciting potential as a conversational AI assistant that can summarize, compare, suggest, explain, and more. However, it is still an experiment in progress. While Bard's natural language capabilities are impressive, users should verify any information given before full reliance. Alternatives like Microsoft's Copilot and ChatGPT are also worth exploring.