Google Bard has almost become the underdog in the current AI chatbot race, and because of this (along with its very polite and friendly tone), I have quite a soft spot for it. Bard has a great UI and the potential to dominate the race if Google could just get things together, go through the ‘training montage’ phase, and actually improve the chatbot’s capabilities.
Inspired by Science Alert’s game of Wordle with ChatGPT I decided to put Bard to the test and play a game or two with it to see how it matches up. I had never actually played Wordle before today and I was hoping that after this little experiment, I could use Google Bard as a helper; a ‘player two,’ if you will, when I do eventually embark on my Wordle journey. Because if there’s one thing that should be able to crush a word game such as Wordle, it's a language-learning AI chatbot. And it shouldn't even need any Wordle hints in order to do so.
So, I asked Bard if it was familiar with the game and once it confirmed and read the rules back to me, I booted up a random Wordle site (not the actual game itself, but a website that uses past games so that people can play more than once a day). I asked Bard again if it was ready and understood the game, then asked it for its first guess.
