How accurate are Google Bard responses?

How much can you trust what Google Bard responds with?

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Google Bard, the new AI chatbot is now available to the general public. It is free to use and can assist with any general query you may have, from writing code to composing poetry.

As the masses get to grips with Bard, much like with ChatGPT, people have their concerns over the software’s accuracy.

No language model can truly claim to be 100% accurate and as Google Bard is still under development, the accuracy is “not perfect“.

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So, how accurate is Google Bard?

It is tough to get an exact number on how accurate Google Bard truly is, however, it is always best practice to double-check facts from the generated responses.

Google Bard is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, giving it the ability to access and process information from the real world through Google Search.

We asked Google Bard what it had to say in regard to accuracy and it delivered something rather interesting:

“In recent months, there have been some concerns about the accuracy of Google Bard’s responses. For example, in February 2023, Google Bard was asked about new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope, and it responded with an inaccurate answer. This caused Alphabet Inc.’s stock to fall by 7.4%.”

While Google Bard is a powerful tool, caution is still required for anyone looking to use it as a research tool.

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Will Google Bard get more accurate over time?

As the chatbot service continues to be developed and trained on more recent datasets, yes, it will become more accurate.

Google is working on improving the accuracy of Bard by making the service more transparent about its sources and the reasoning behind responses.

Google Bard is most accurate in the areas where it has been trained on a large amount of data, such as translating languages. Bard sometimes falls short accuracy-wise in areas such as generating creative or original text.

Using Google Bard for research

Despite Google Bard’s tendency for inaccuracies, there are a variety of ways the software can still be employed effectively to assist you in your research.

Even though Bard has the ability to use the internet to help generate its responses that doesn’t mean that they are accurate and up to date. This is because like ChatGPT, Google Bard is largely designed to prioritize giving plausible human like responses rather than factually accurate ones and although Google are always aiming at improving the accuracy of Bard, for now you’ll have to be a little cautious about any information the chatbot gives you.

If you do want to use Bard to assist in your research a good way of doing this is by asking Bard to find sources pertaining to your topic of study for you to then read. This way even is bard gives you a false answer you’ll know it to be incorrect when you go to find and read the source.

Does Bard give accurate and safe responses?

Bard is experimental and still under development, so not all of its responses are accurate. you should always use a tool such as Google bard with caution but the tool should get better over time.