Nope. Even if you pass the criteria, it's still a waitlist. <You’ll receive another email when it’s your turn to test Bard.> I'll update if they actually grant access today.
Alright, I've tried it and with some identical prompting between Bard and ChatGPT, Bard seems notably inferior. It is faster in generation, but the overall quality of response and contextual understanding isn't quite as good. Also, it straight-up refuses to even attempt writing code, returning this message: "I'm designed solely to process and generate text, so I'm unable to assist you with that."