If you try Bard or Claude or character.ai they are not far behind GPT4. They might even be on par in terms of raw LLM capabilities. ChatGPT has better marketing and in some cases better UX. A lot of this is self-fulfilling. We think it's far ahead, so it appears to be far ahead.
> If you try Bard or Claude or character.ai they are not far behind GPT4
Bard is way behind ChatGPT with GPT-3.5, much less GPT-4. Haven’t tried the others, though.
OTOH, that’s way behind qualitatively, not in terms of time-of-progress. So I don’t think it is at all an insurmountable lead, as much as it is a big utility gap.
Claude and Character AI are great at holding a conversation but they lack the ability to do anything specialized that really makes these LLM’s useful in my day to day life. I ask GPT-4 and ChatGPT questions I would ask in stackoverflow, I can’t do that with Claude or Character AI. Bard actually seems behind even conversationally to the rest
