While it's still not as good as Chat GPT 4, Bard has gotten significantly better recently. I tried at launch and was seriously underwhelmed, but tried a few queries this week and came away pretty impressed.

I don't understand why they launched with such a hamstrung and small model. Everyone's first impression was basically "Google's AI sucks" and that is going to be tough to shake.

I mention this because the linked thread is almost a month old.