The Bottom Line
Even though it sometimes makes mistakes, ChatGPT’s advanced, mature models, helpful sourcing abilities, and superb research tools make it the leader among chatbots.
Pros & Cons
- More relevant responses than competitors
- Excellent sourcing on up-to-date information
- Impressive deep research, problem-solving, and writing skills
- Best-in-class image generation and recognition
- Genuinely useful file processing
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- Expensive
- Occasionally incorrect responses
ChatGPT Specs
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Free Version | |
| AI Model | GPT-4 and GPT-o |
| Exchanges per Conversation | Unlimited |
| Cites Sources | |
| Ability to Browse Web | |
| Can Resume Prior Conversations | |
| Image Generator |
What Is ChatGPT?
Broadly speaking, ChatGPT is an AI chatbot you interact with via text or your voice. It can answer questions, do research, generate creative writing, handle math and science problems, make images, process files you upload, search the web, and much more. Features like contextual understanding and memory, among others, differentiate ChatGPT from the initial, simpler versions of Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri.
I find ChatGPT most useful for answering questions and doing research. Rather than tacking on “Reddit” at the end of a Google search and scrolling through forum post after forum post, I can usually find what I need faster with ChatGPT.
AI chatbots are imperfect technologies, though. If you look to them for information, you need to keep in mind that they can confidently get things wrong or make stuff up. I recommend checking sources outside of ChatGPT for anything mission-critical.
