ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was the first AI robot. This movie blew everyone away when it came out in late 2022. In 2023, AI will be back in the news. To start a discussion, just write your question at the bottom of the screen. As the output comes back, a new item is added to the menu on the left. This way, you can keep each thread separate and come back to them later. You can share a link to any of these that you think other people would find interesting and let them pick up where you left off.
ChatGPT is still the leader in its field, even though it sometimes publishes false information while acting completely confident, which is what experts call fantasies. It keeps track of what you’ve said in each chat and uses that information to give you more accurate results in the future. It can take text commands, which let you format and change the results. It’s also very adaptable and can do jobs in any field with a good level of accuracy—just make sure you check the facts. You can even share your conversations with other people and give the bot your own directions to make it even more unique.
Even though GPT-3.5 is great, GPT-4 is even better. It was trained on a much bigger set of data, which makes it even more adaptable and accurate in what it writes. It can even guess what will happen next when given a still picture.
A lot has happened in the year since ChatGPT came out. With DALL·E 3, you can now do text-to-image prompts and changes right in ChatGPT. With GPTs, you can even make your own bot with its own data and directions. It’s possible for these bots to do simple jobs, make things easier, or just do weird things for fun.
Pros:
- A useful partner for writing
- Trying it out is easy with the free version.
- Best writing tool for AI
Cons:
- Comes up with false answers and half-truths
- No warnings
- The paid plan isn’t worth $20 a month for most people.
Pricing:
Free: There is no charge to use the free plan.
ChatGPT Plus: It costs $20 a month.
Microsoft BING AI:
Microsoft put more money into OpenAI at the beginning of 2023 and began adding AI features to its products. One of them was Bing, which now has AI chat tools that can help you search the web. Once you give it a hint, it will search the internet for you, process the results, and then send you back a message with the links it used as starters.
These days, it can show image results in the chat window. However, it doesn’t really understand what an image search is for because it sends out a list of image links instead of an image gallery. There are also links on the right side of the screen that you can click on to read old talks again.
Now that we’re done with search, Bing AI is now linked to OpenAI’s DALL·E 3, which means I can get my daily fix of golden dog pictures made by AI. You can ask to regenerate with new directions once it’s out, but I’ve found that it doesn’t always work well.
It works perfectly with Microsoft Edge, the built-in browser for Windows. There are some cool tools there. The best one lets you make text in the sidebar and then paste it into any web page input form with just one click. For example, you can use this to write letters and then paste them into the compose window.
Even though Bing AI is still acting strangely and cutting off talks without warning, it’s not nearly as bad as when it showed it could gaslight people. Don’t take it personally if it tells you it doesn’t want to talk anymore. Press “New Thread” to keep going.
Pros:
- The best sources of any chatbot we looked at
Gets the most recent information from the web - Using OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to power it
Cons:
- Short answers that don’t go into detail
- Ads show up in some search results
- limited to responding 30 times per chat.
Pricing:
Customers who have a Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, Business Premium, or A3 or A5 for teacher licence can use Bing AI chat for free. You can buy Bing AI as a separate tool for $5 a month if you don’t have those licences.
Gemini (Google Bard):
Google has been in the AI game for a long time, and many of its products already have AI features built in. Bard gave up on the LaMDA model after a huge problem during the first product show and now uses PaLM 2 to do what you tell it to do. A lot of people didn’t like it, but I’m really starting to like it.
One of the best things about Bard is that it can connect to the internet to find sources. It even has a button that lets you Google it yourself, which is very useful. You can even display images from the search results directly in the chat window. It also gives you up to three drafts of each output, so you can choose the best one. You can change your challenge after you’ve sent it. It can remember the conversations you’ve had and let other people hear them.
What I really like about it, though, is how well it works with your Google account and other Google goods, like Homes, Flights, and YouTube. Want to search through all of your Gmail files with just one click? Do it. Put together a list of things in your Google Drive? Please say yes. See how much flights and hotels cost right now while the AI plans your trip? Plan that time off; it even tells you what to pack.
Pros:
- Very nice graphics and layout
- Image tests didn’t show any characters that were protected by copyright.
- You can try Gemini Advanced for free for 60 days.
Cons:
- It is hit or miss to make images.
- A search for local events turned up general results
pricing:
Gemini Google Bard is free to use.
Grok:
Elon Musk is already in the race to build the best AI, so why not join the race as well? When compared to the best models, Grok can show promise after being developed in just four months, which is lightning fast. But the details are what really draw you in, not the technical stuff.
First, let me say that I haven’t had a chance to test it yet. That’s because I haven’t used Twitter or X in a long time, so I can’t sign up for an X Premium+ plan. Here is a collection of news and opinion pieces I’ve been reading online. I really think you should join in too; it’s really interesting.
Grok is meant to tell the truth in the clearest way possible. No matter what your thoughts are on this, it means that the AI is not limited by the same safety steps that GPT or Claude are. No matter what question you have, it will gladly answer it. It’s hard to say what to think about this because it works both ways.
It will tell this truth in a way that sounds like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This book is like an interactive encyclopaedia: if you ask about something in Douglas Adams’s world, it gives you the information you need. I wonder if it uses the same way of writing. If it does, the humour will be great.
The X platform’s real-time data may one day be connected to Grok so that it can use it for more than just finding answers. This is the same as having a chatbot that is based on real-time behaviour on a social media site. This is really cool; imagine being able to ask about talks, trends, or even how users feel about things. I want to know how Grok sees the general mood of X people on a given day.
Finally, the word “grok” comes from the verb “to understand something intuitively or by empathy.” A clever name for an AI system that might not have either. I promise to keep the door open for what could happen.
Pros:
- A new way to look at AI
- Expertise in Multiple Domains
- Global Influence and Dimensions
Cons:
- Concerns about ethics and privacy
- Dependence on Musk’s Ideas
Pricing:
Everyone who pays $8 a month to be a paid member of the social media site can use Grok.
Perplexity:
Perplexity is a different take on AI robots that can connect to the internet and handle more information and longer, less organised searches. That’s because when you get the result, you’ll see a list of all the sources below it. Then you can add a new search prompt or choose one of the linked search terms that are shown. You can scroll up or down to read everything because the results will be stacked at the bottom.
If you click on “Copilot” in the search bar, you can get help with things like finding the best healthy recipes, getting trip tips, or other things. After you type in your prompt, Perplexity will ask you a series of questions to help it understand what you mean. The output that comes out of this summarises all the important data and is a good place to begin a deep look.
Sharing your chats with other people lets them carry on the talk you started without any limits. People who are part of a shared chat can see your views, likes, and follow-up questions. This makes the experience more interactive.
Discover is a new tool that puts together short articles about popular searches. For example, “the most streamed artist in 2023” includes sources that show Taylor Swift had 26.1 billion streams, as well as a short summary made by AI that breaks down the important details of the subject.
With Wolfram Alpha, Perplexity is getting better at advanced jobs like solving equations and processing real-time data. It is positioning itself more and more as a strong and easy-to-use search tool.
Pros:
- Source links
- Easy access to internet
Cons:
- You have to pay for a subscription to view GPT-4.
- some ideas that don’t belong
Pricing:
There are some tools that are available for free.
Pro: It costs $20 a month or $200 a year.
Meta Llama:
Meta joined the AI game in a special way. It chose not to make a commercial chatbot like all the other companies, but instead to release its own AI model with a strong open licencing structure. This means you can use it for free and change it until you reach a certain amount of revenue. This revenue cap is very high so big tech companies can’t use this LLM ever.
It almost looks like an open source model because of how easy it is to licence, but you can’t really see how Llama 2 was made, so it can’t really be called that.
Deploying a Llama 2 model is something that only developers can do, but you can try it out on the Llama2.ai website to see how it works. The output seems more direct and less fine-tuned than that of other robots. It’s a basic model that can be customised and changed to fit different needs. This app implementation lets you chat and gives you a few settings, like the system prompt, the temperature, and the context window. That’s all you need to start exploring what’s possible and what’s not.
The open licencing rules of Llama are key to its bright future. It’s not as fun to use as some of the other choices here, but this is definitely one to keep an eye on. You might deal with more than one version of it in different apps in the future.
Pros:
- Better understanding of natural language
- Connectivity with Several Platforms
Cons:
- Limited Availability
- Concerns about safety and privacy
Pricing:
Best value The Llama2 chatbot option only costs $4 a month.
Claude:
Anthropic’s robot wants to be honest, helpful, and safe. The conversation flows naturally, and people answer the questions directly. There aren’t any long introductions or endings, which is something that ChatGPT sometimes likes to do.
The lengthy context box is what makes it stand out. This is a fancy word for the conversational memory that robots have. It helps them remember what you’re talking about, what questions you’ve asked before, and how you answered them. This function makes it possible to answer questions like “Can you sum up everything we’ve talked about into one main point?”
When you talk to someone, ChatGPT can only remember up to 12,000 words. Claude can remember up to 75,000 words. This AI model can summarise and ask questions based on long documents because it lets you add files. Just make sure that the total number of words in the questions and answers is less than the limit.
Pros:
- Help with uploading documents
- Light mode and dark mode
Cons:
- Loss of knowledge
- No clear limit on usage
Pricing:
Claude Pro costs $20 or £18 a month.
