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Which AI chatbot is the best? I don’t want to waste time with ones that aren’t as good
~ Karen
Hi Karen,
It’s a common question that I wish I had a better answer to.
I don’t think that there is an overall “best” chatbot. It depends heavily on what you are doing with it, how familiar you are with it, your budget, your patience level, etc.
My recommendation is to start with one of the these
If you have paid access to one of those (i.e. through a Google Workspace subscription), start with that one. If you don’t have paid access to one, start with ChatGPT.
Use that initial tool until it can’t do something that you need to do (i.e. create video) or you don’t feel that it is worth your time to keep using. The positive at this point is that you will have specific things that you want to be able to do and then suggesting a tool will be easier.
To be clear, I don’t recommend starting with ChatGPT because I think that it is “better”. I do think that it is good enough at a wide range of things for most people. I also think that it is very forgiving which is important when people are getting started with AI tools. Forgiving in this case means that you don’t have to have the exact words in the exact order for it to give you useful output.
The “best” tool ends up being the one that you are willing to use and gives you the output that you need.
Circle back and let us know which one(s) you end up liking.
Hope that helps.
~ Damien