There was a time when searching for information on the Internet meant first choosing the search engine with which we would do it. Until one called Google arrived and almost everyone started using it. Something similar is happening with artificial intelligence. With the popularization of ChatGPT, so-called chatbots or conversational chats have begun to emerge. Many of them are in the form of mobile phone applications. Although very few people seem to use ChatGPT on phones at the moment.
The truth is that chatbots can help us in practical tasks more than we think. Especially if we carry one in our pocket. For example, it can do calculations, they allow us to learn new knowledge or they allow us to practice languages. In the ChatGPT app, for example, we can chat out loud with the famous chatbot. Something very useful to expand our knowledge base on a topic anywhere. Of course, OpenAI should improve the quality of its voices in languages other than English for these oral consultations.
The vast majority of current chatbots are based on ChatGPT. This happens because OpenAI allows software developers to use its AI. Artificial intelligence in chats today is mainly a matter of two companies: OpenAI with ChatGPT and Google with Gemini, the name of its artificial intelligence with which it has just replaced its Bard chatbot.
If we enter the field of image generators from text, the creators of ChatGPT have DALL-E. But there are other interesting options. Like Firefly, the AI engine from Adobe (creators of Photoshop). Although DALL-E is today the most used and popular option, Firefly incorporates increasingly powerful functions.
Google just announced this week that Bard is now simply called Gemini, available in 40 languages on the web and with a new Gemini app for Android, while on iOS it will be accessible through the Google app for the iPhone operating system. Some of Google's AI has been seen in the new Samsung Galaxy S24, with integrated artificial intelligence. Among their functions, for example, they translate conversations between interlocutors with different languages and in real time.
The main problem for the use of artificial intelligence to become popular is that few people are willing to pay the 20 euros per month that a subscription to ChatGPT costs. In the case of Google's Gemini, the most advanced version is the Ultra, which will be called Gemini Advanced and which has personal tutor features that adapt to the user's learning style. To access this first-rate modality, you must subscribe to the Google One AI Premium plan, which has the first two months free and then a rate of 21.99 euros per month.
Therefore, the most used chatbots are free ones. And if we have to stay with one, there is almost no doubt which is the best option: Copilot from Microsoft. Let us remember that the American company financially supports OpenAI to make ChatGPT a reality. Copilot, available in web version and in application form, can help us with many tasks. But it does not offer all the features of ChatGPT. One key limitation: our questions to Copilot cannot be longer than 4,000 characters. Something that does not happen with ChatGPT. This prevents, for example, Copilot from processing long texts.
It is also worth exploring the use of ChatGPT-based chatbots from the WhatsApp app. For those who mainly use this messaging application, it can be very useful to use chatbots such as Carina IA, capable of transcribing audio messages and answering questions, or the popular LuzIA, which is even capable of generating images.
Something that turns the already complex world of artificial intelligence upside down is the recent appearance of the so-called GPT Store on ChatGPT. In this type of store we can find online services and chatbots. To access it we must be subscribed to ChatGPT. Something that now makes more sense, since GPTs multiply the practical possibilities of artificial intelligence.
Among the most popular GPTs that we can currently use is Consensus. This service is a database of academic information from which we can request articles using a chatbot. Something that is very practical. Not only for academic professionals, but for anyone who wants to educate themselves on a topic.
The Video GPT chatbot, from the company Veed, is also quite surprising. This tool allows you to create videos simply by describing them. Even in Spanish. Although if we do not opt for the paid version, the watermark that appears on the final footage cannot be removed.
The best thing about Video GPT is that a template of the video that we have described is generated through the Veed online service, and this allows us to replace the videos that Video GPT automatically inserts with others. It must be taken into account that like other AI-based services, it does not work miracles. But it can be useful for some things when we learn to know its weaknesses and strengths.
Also quite popular is the Write For Me service, which offers the promise of improving our writing. Its main virtue is that this system is capable of improving the structure of the text if we seek to create sections, chapters, indexes or anything else that has to do with the structure of a writing. By the way, the best way to know what a chatbot does is to first ask it what it can do.
Although artificial intelligence is causing many surprises and many fears, it is still in an early stage of development. But it is mature enough for us to start taking advantage of it on the mobile phone, on the computer and on any device that allows access to a chatbot. The offer is wide.
