Siri is a voice-activated personal assistant AI developed by Apple, designed primarily to perform tasks and answer questions within the context of Apple’s ecosystem. While Siri is capable of answering some basic questions and performing specific tasks such as setting reminders or sending text messages, it has limited knowledge and does not possess the same depth of understanding or natural language processing capabilities as ChatGPT and Google Bard.
While ChatGPT has been making waves in recent months, Google responded with a large language model of its own following Microsoft’s integration of ChatGPT with Bing. This is known as Google Bard and offers a similar experience to what you’ll find with ChatGPT, but it’s also possible to use Google Bard on iPhone and iPad, without needing to rely on API keys or jumping through a bunch of hoops.
In essence, while Siri is a valuable tool for performing basic tasks and answering simple questions, ChatGPT is a more versatile and powerful AI that can understand and respond to complex queries and engage in meaningful conversations with users.
What is Google Bard?
Google Bard is a large language model chatbot developed by Google AI. It is a conversational AI service that can be used to have conversations with humans, generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer questions in an informative way. It is still under development, but it has the potential to be a powerful tool for communication and creativity.
Bard is powered by LaMDA, Google’s large language model. LaMDA is a machine learning model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text and code. This allows Bard to generate text that is similar to human-written text, and to translate languages accurately. Bard can also write different kinds of creative content, such as poems, code, scripts, and musical pieces.
Bard is still under development, but it has the potential to be a powerful tool for communication and creativity. It can be used to have conversations with humans, generate creative content, and answer questions in an informative way.
How to Use Google Bard on iPhone and iPad
Unlike ChatGPT, if you want to use Google Bard on iPhone and iPad, you’ll first need to join the “waitlist.” This was implemented as a way to make Bard available in “waves” as opposed to overloading the servers by simply opening it up to everyone and anyone with a Google account. Here’s how you can join the waitlist:
Open the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad.
Navigate to bard.google.com.
Click the Join waitlist button that appears.
When prompted, sign into your Google account.
After you’ve been provided access to this new large language model, you’ll be able to use Google Bard on iPhone and iPad. What makes this interesting is that it doesn’t matter
Open the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad.
Navigate to bard.google.com.
Read through the Terms & Conditions for using Google Bard.
Click the I agree button.
Make sure you are signed into your Google account.
From the Bard is an experiment window, click the Got it button.
From here, you’ll be presented with an interface that looks similar to other chat apps, such as Google Messages. At the top of the page, Bard provides a few different examples for you to try out if you can’t think of prompts yourself. Google Bard will then generate a response. You can also use Google Bard to translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.
Interacting With Google Bard on iPhone and iPad
You can respond with a question related to the prompt provided, or enter a different prompt entirely at the bottom of the screen. However, within each provided response, there are a few different options. You can also provide more detailed feedback by clicking on the three dots next to the thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons. This will open a menu where you can write a comment about the response. The provided feedback will help Google Bard improve its responses over time.
Adjacent to that, you’ll find a “New Response” button that functions as a way to “reset” Bard. Additionally, there is a “Google it” button available if you’d like to seek further information. By selecting this button, Bard will offer a list of “search related topics,” and upon clicking one of them, a new Google search window will open.
There’s even an option to View other drafts which will show you up to a total of three drafts that were generated with Google Bard. In most instances, each draft is different from the others, giving you different results to view and in some cases, you’ll see different formats.
As we’ve mentioned, Google Bard is even newer than ChatGPT, at least in its public-facing form. We expect the versatility and usefulness of Bard to continue to grow in the coming months and perhaps it will eventually be integrated into Google Assistant.
Andrew is a freelance writer based on the East Coast of the US.
He has written for a variety of sites over the years, including iMore, Android Central, Phandroid, and a few others. Now, he spends his days working for an HVAC company, while moonlighting as a freelance writer at night.
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