How to Use Generative AI (Like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Google Bard) with Success

Nick Sokol, PhD
6 min readJun 16, 2023

Can you write a blog article about the differences between Bing Chat, Google Bard, and ChatGPT? Can you provide me with some factual information about their differences and how to best use each one?

That was what I asked Google Bard in a prompt and it returned a pretty decent answer.

Of course, I was curious and decided to ask the other AI’s for their thoughts as well and a similar answer was returned from each.

Generative AI (of which large language models are a type of sub-model) are great at answering questions and can be a powerful tool for individuals who need to quickly ascertain understanding around a specific topic. However, as noted in the image above, generative AI is a model trained on available data from the internet and other database sources that can be used to train an AI. If you aren’t sure what “train an AI” means, just think of how you read a book, then comprehend and store the information that you read. That process is very similar to how generative AI models work.

As such, generative AI are not able to develop new, original, and creative pieces of work. Anything you ask them will be…

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Nick Sokol, PhD

I write about Sustainability, ClimateTech, Entrepreneurialism, Technology, and Software Engineering.