Bard is in full-scale production to all U.S. users for free. GPT-4 costs $20/month. Rather a big difference in the economics of the situation. Also it's pretty clear that even the $20 is highly subsidized. Microsoft is willing to incinerate almost any amount of money to harm Google.
Yes I think it has less utility than the free version of ChatGPT, but it also has some nice points, is faster, and has fewer outages.
For my use case none of them is worth using. All three of the ones we've mentioned in this thread will just make up language features that would be useful but don't exist, and all three of them will hallucinate imaginary sections of the C++ standard to explain them. Bard loves `std::uint128_t`. GPT-4 will make up GIS coordinate reference systems that don't exist. For me they are all more trouble than they are worth, on the daily.
> Also it's pretty clear that even the $20 is highly subsidized.
This isn't the case. There's a podcast (somewhere? I thought it was a Lex one but I can't find it) where someone from open AI went into some depth about the economics.
GPT-4 is also free to all users, not just from the US, with 200 turns per day and 20 per conversation. It's just called "Bing Chat mode" instead of GPT-4. Of course Microsoft is losing money with it. But Microsoft can afford to lose money.
