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I actually find Bing superficial and impatient compared to ChatGPT-4-Turbo, and way more inclined to give partial or incomplete answers, and jump to unsubstanti
by skygazer 3y ago
I actually find Bing superficial and impatient compared to ChatGPT-4-Turbo, and way more inclined to give partial or incomplete answers, and jump to unsubstantiated conclusions and give more “hot takes” where chatGPT is way more circumspect. Bing is oddly more likely to hallucinate, and even give hallucinated links, which fortunately the UI strips out.
Bing really feels like a different GPT 4 — tuned for brevity and to reduce resource utilization. (Except for images. Bing wants to generate images for no reason, while chatGPT sometimes double checks to make sure you really want one, and has scaled back the number of simultaneous variants it generated from 4 to 1, although no limit that I’ve reached yet.)
Bing has a max turns per chat limit I think around 20 or 25 at the moment, at least with the purple (formerly “Creative”) GPT 4 model. ChatGPT doesn’t have conversation limits, although older text falls out of context. Bing created that limit to prevent the model from going unhinged after too many turns, which happened frequently with Bing but almost never with ChatGPT for some reason.
I’ve also hit a daily limit on Bing while not on chatGPT+ — chatGPT4 currently has a 30 turn limit within 3 hours, although I’ve rarely hit that outside of long voice chats. I do try to cram multiple questions into one go, to conserve turns though. Or I give certain tasks like summaries to chatgpt3.5 as it’s faster with no quota.
Plugins were briefly interesting. Maybe the new custom GPTs will become a must, but not yet. Oh, and the python runtime environment is epic. It can literally build its own tools to answer questions.
If I couldn’t afford $20 a month, I could maybe make do with Bing, but if I could afford it, I think chatGPT is very worth it.
You mentioned the API, which is a whole different thing than the $20/mo chatGPT subscription. It’s usage based, and designed to allow you to integrate GPT into other software and services. It has different models and different pricing tiers. I use both chatGPT and the API, though the API I use only lightly for personal use and it hasn’t consumed my first $5 deposit yet. There are also chatGPT like third party clients that take an API key and act like chatGPT and depending on your usage may cost less or more than the normal chatGPT subscription.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoIt is believed that the characteristics you mention in the first few paragraphs are because Bing is based on an old pre-release version of GPT-4, which didn't have all the guardrails that the final versions have (note that Bing Chat was released before access to GPT-4 was available directly from OpenAI).