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ChatGPT vs Bing vs Bard: You can pick the best in this chatbot arena

It's like a blind taste test for generative AI. Try it yourself.
By Cecily Mauran  on 
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Which LLM is winning the top spot? Credit: Getty Images

Want to know how ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard stack up against each other? Welcome to the Chatbot Arena(opens in a new tab).

A UC Berkeley research group(opens in a new tab) in partnership with UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University has devised an experiment where users can chat with two anonymous models at the same time and vote for the best one. Chatbot Arena includes LLMs from Open AI (GPT-4), Google (PaLM), Meta (LLaMA), and Anthropic's Claude, as well as other models built using these companies' APIs.

When you enter a prompt in the Chatbot Arena, two anonymous models give their responses. Once you cast your vote, the experiment tells you which model you voted for. You can also experiment with side-by-side comparisons of different models and check the leaderboard for the top voted model.

Chatbot Arena showing two responses from anonymous chatbots based on the same prompt
Which chatbot was the better Karen? I voted for A. Credit: LMSYS Org

The research group, called Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS) created the crowdsourced experiment as a way to effectively benchmark the many LLMs that have proliferated recently. "Benchmarking LLM assistants is extremely challenging because the problems can be open-ended, and it is very difficult to write a program to automatically evaluate the response quality," said the LMSYS blog post announcing Chatbot Arena. So far, more than 40,000 votes have been cast.

So which LLM is the best? So far, that honor goes to GPT-4. In second place is Anthropic's Claude-v1, followed by Claude Instant, which is Anthropic's lighter, faster version of Claude. Check out the leaderboard(opens in a new tab) for the full results, and try out the Chatbot Arena(opens in a new tab) for yourself on the LMSYS website.

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Cecily Mauran

Cecily is a tech reporter at Mashable who covers AI, Apple, and emerging tech trends. Before getting her master's degree at Columbia Journalism School, she spent several years working with startups and social impact businesses for Unreasonable Group and B Lab. Before that, she co-founded a startup consulting business for emerging entrepreneurial hubs in South America, Europe, and Asia. You can find her on Twitter at @cecily_mauran(opens in a new tab).


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