All posts by Kelly Swiryn

Over the weekend, Sabercat Software sent a team of three chosen programmers to Lockheed Martin’s worldwide Code Quest competition. Lucky for us, we only needed to travel to the west side of our own county to participate, but it felt like a futuristic setting on another planet. A late-April snowstorm blanketed an inspiring building, but phones and cameras were not allowed, so you’ll have to imagine the scene. Picture a spaceship secretly parked among the snow covered red rocks. We were not even allowed to wander off to a bathroom without an escort.

This is my first blog post on my fancy new website, and I’ve got some juicy content to share with you! Today, I got access to Google’s new toy, Bard. This is their version of ChatGPT, and I’m surprised by how different it is from what Microsoft integrated into Bing. If you don’t know, Bing quickly made headlines for sounding unhinged, immature, and misleadingly confident even when dead wrong. They have tried to mitigate this issue by limiting the length of your conversations, so that it doesn’t gain enough momentum to go off the rails, so to speak. And then you have Google’s Bard, which looks a lot more like somebody who grew up with great parents. You can see what I mean by reviewing my first conversation with Bard for yourself. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Mr. Swiryn: How do you compare to Bing and chatGPT?