So, the answer to your question is that there are 31 characters in the sentence “Once upon a time, there was a girl with red shoes.” However, if you are counting each word as a character, then the answer is 50.īard’s right, I am confused.

For example, the word “once” is made up of 4 characters: o, n, c, and e. In reality, a word is made up of multiple characters. This is because the search results are counting each word as a character. However, my knowledge says that there are 50 characters in the sentence. The sentence “Once upon a time, there was a girl with red shoes.” has 31 characters including spaces. To this, Bard decided to take a different approach by gaslighting me: So, I told Bard the real answer, which was 50. When told that it was wrong, it just regenerated an answer that was still wrong. The most incredible part about this was that when I clicked to look at the other drafts Bard came up for me, it was all different numbers. I was… stunned by this viscerally untrue sentence. The sentence “Once upon a time, there was a girl with red shoes.” has 28 characters including spaces. I realised that despite me asking it to include spaces, it had forgotten to do so.Īfter pointing this out, it finally was able to derive 50 as an answer. Yet, when I told it to show me the working used, it reverted the answer back to 40. When told the correct answer was 50, ChatGPT readily agreed and changed its answer. There are 40 characters including spaces in the sentence “Once upon a time, there was a girl with red shoes.” I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

When I asked whether it was unable to count, Bing replied with a classic response I’ve obtained a few other times from it: “I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m assuming it might’ve neglected to actually count the punctuation. In actuality, when you count those individual characters, it adds up to 40. If I hadn’t known better, I would think that it’s right, save for forgetting to count spaces. O n c e u p o n a t i m e, t h e r e w a s a g i r l w i t h r e d s h o e s. When asked to show its working, this is what Bing replied with: The sentence “Once upon a time, there was a girl with red shoes.” has 39 characters including spaces. Still, you’d think they would be able to do something like counting. According to others online, this is because they’re language models, not calculators. One of my favourite things to challenge chatbots with has been character counts, as it always trips them up. The real answer for the above question is 50, by the way. The prompt: How many characters including spaces are in the sentence “Once upon a time, there was a girl with red shoes.” Other than that, it functions similarly to ChatGPT and Bing. You can check on your previous questions by going into, though it won’t actually show the answer Bard gave. There’s also a “Google it” button, which will bring up a few search prompts that’ll lead you to Google.Ī con is that you can’t easily continue past chats once you’ve closed the tab. You can provide feedback such as “good response”, “bad response”, or prompt Bard to give a new response. Once you continue the conversation, you won’t be able to see the drafts from previous answers, though Something unique to Bard is that you get to see three different drafted answers the programme comes up with per prompt. It’s described as a “creative and helpful collaborator” that can “supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and help you bring your ideas to life”. The major differencesīefore jumping straight into the challenge, here’s what Bard’s all about.Īccording to Bard’s FAQ page, Bard is an experiment based on the same technology behind LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), which was a conversational AI model capable of fluid, multi-turn dialogue.īard’s purpose is to let users collaborate with generative AI. I’ve compared ChatGPT to Bing in the past, so now, we’re throwing Bard into the mix to see how it performs in a few different use cases. Finally, I’ve been given access to Bard, Google’s much awaited chatbot.

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