I asked Google Bard to help me with a game of Wordle and I’m disappointed.
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, went through the ‘training montage’ phase, and actually improved 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 and 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 like Wordle, its a language-learning AI chatbot.
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 older rounds to allow people to play more than one game a day on their computer).
