In the 20 minutes of experimentation, I'm really impressed with the quality of Bard Advanced (Gemini Ultra). The results are as good as GPT-4, and in some cases is better. So far:
pros:
- better at translation (tried Chinese and Japanese idioms to English)
- better at incorporating search results in its answer vs gpt-4 bing
cons:
- slightly worse at coding
- censorship is more annoying (have to ask multiple times about medical topics)
- Worse at logic (e.g. it contradicts itself in a single sentence, and is unable to figure it out)
- Hallucinates a lot when asked to describe an image
pros:
- better at translation (tried Chinese and Japanese idioms to English)
- better at incorporating search results in its answer vs gpt-4 bing
cons:
- slightly worse at coding
- censorship is more annoying (have to ask multiple times about medical topics)
- Worse at logic (e.g. it contradicts itself in a single sentence, and is unable to figure it out)
- Hallucinates a lot when asked to describe an image