My daughter works on a Bard development team. Yeah, in some ways, the biggest difference between it and a regular Google search is that the output is in language. However, another difference that may or may not be helpful, is that it can offer drafts (alternate responses). So, draft 2 may contradict draft 1, and there may be several more drafts. Teams have to work with engineers, who have their own idea of what the responses "should" be.
Anyway, natural intelligence is still superior to the artificial kind when it comes to choosing which solution to choose. It's like the "viral" math problems where two calculators will get different results for the same problem -like 6÷2(1+2) = ? (Is it 1 or 9?) Some AI will give both as alternative answers, and then one will go on to explain the wrong reason for the solution. That's the problem. The AI -when used for searching- is as good as the one who programed the search.
Otoh, it's possible to use AI to create information, art, or music, and just as an extension of one's (the human) imagination. Unfortunately, imagination is also what makes AI so scary. It's like Victor's monster. We can make it; but we can't control it. Smart people say so, but maybe AI will be smarter -and it's our degeneracy that makes us fearful. It's like fire.