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Urr... Yes and no? You can photo scan your handwritten problem and ask for a solution to it, but if you mean if there is a handwriting feature to write out the question on the app directly, then it's a no. If we see that more and more users are asking for the said feature, we will definitely take it into consideration. That's a pinky promise.

Sadly, no. AIR MATH's tutor system does not allow a student to designate or reconnect to a certain tutor to solve your math problem. However, if we see a growing need for this, we will definitely take this into consideration.

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It's actually pretty simple. Just open the app, position your math problem that you need to solve within the guideline, then snap and tap to upload your question. It's okay if your problem was not photo scanned exactly within the guideline, because once you take a picture of it, you can later adjust and crop the math problem. Once you upload your math question, AIR MATH will come up with possible solutions to your problem in about 10 seconds. Now, wasn't that easy?.

No, no one but yourself can see the math questions that you have asked on AIR MATH... We do, however, accumulate all the math problems that all our users have asked so that our AI technology can use them as databases and become even faster when giving answers!

Well, that really depends. Our AIR MATH math homework helper/solver app itself only uses one system language: English. However, our tutors are from all across the globe and if you happen to use any of their languages, well, then that's up to you to decide if you want to use another language when asking for step-by-step solutions to your math problems from the tutors via live chat sessions. (We respect diversity!)

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A new AI chatbot might do your homework for you. But it's still not an A+ student

Emma Bowman

Enter a prompt into ChatGPT, and it becomes your very own virtual assistant. OpenAI/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

Enter a prompt into ChatGPT, and it becomes your very own virtual assistant.

Why do your homework when a chatbot can do it for you? A new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT has thrilled the Internet with its superhuman abilities to solve math problems, churn out college essays and write research papers.

After the developer OpenAI released the text-based system to the public last month, some educators have been sounding the alarm about the potential that such AI systems have to transform academia, for better and worse.

"AI has basically ruined homework," said Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, on Twitter.

The tool has been an instant hit among many of his students, he told NPR in an interview on Morning Edition , with its most immediately obvious use being a way to cheat by plagiarizing the AI-written work, he said.

Academic fraud aside, Mollick also sees its benefits as a learning companion.

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He's used it as his own teacher's assistant, for help with crafting a syllabus, lecture, an assignment and a grading rubric for MBA students.

"You can paste in entire academic papers and ask it to summarize it. You can ask it to find an error in your code and correct it and tell you why you got it wrong," he said. "It's this multiplier of ability, that I think we are not quite getting our heads around, that is absolutely stunning," he said.

A convincing — yet untrustworthy — bot

But the superhuman virtual assistant — like any emerging AI tech — has its limitations. ChatGPT was created by humans, after all. OpenAI has trained the tool using a large dataset of real human conversations.

"The best way to think about this is you are chatting with an omniscient, eager-to-please intern who sometimes lies to you," Mollick said.

It lies with confidence, too. Despite its authoritative tone, there have been instances in which ChatGPT won't tell you when it doesn't have the answer.

That's what Teresa Kubacka, a data scientist based in Zurich, Switzerland, found when she experimented with the language model. Kubacka, who studied physics for her Ph.D., tested the tool by asking it about a made-up physical phenomenon.

"I deliberately asked it about something that I thought that I know doesn't exist so that they can judge whether it actually also has the notion of what exists and what doesn't exist," she said.

ChatGPT produced an answer so specific and plausible sounding, backed with citations, she said, that she had to investigate whether the fake phenomenon, "a cycloidal inverted electromagnon," was actually real.

When she looked closer, the alleged source material was also bogus, she said. There were names of well-known physics experts listed – the titles of the publications they supposedly authored, however, were non-existent, she said.

"This is where it becomes kind of dangerous," Kubacka said. "The moment that you cannot trust the references, it also kind of erodes the trust in citing science whatsoever," she said.

Scientists call these fake generations "hallucinations."

"There are still many cases where you ask it a question and it'll give you a very impressive-sounding answer that's just dead wrong," said Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI , who ran the research nonprofit until recently. "And, of course, that's a problem if you don't carefully verify or corroborate its facts."

Users experimenting with the chatbot are warned before testing the tool that ChatGPT "may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information." OpenAI/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

An opportunity to scrutinize AI language tools

Users experimenting with the free preview of the chatbot are warned before testing the tool that ChatGPT "may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information," harmful instructions or biased content.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, said earlier this month it would be a mistake to rely on the tool for anything "important" in its current iteration. "It's a preview of progress," he tweeted .

The failings of another AI language model unveiled by Meta last month led to its shutdown. The company withdrew its demo for Galactica, a tool designed to help scientists, just three days after it encouraged the public to test it out, following criticism that it spewed biased and nonsensical text.

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Similarly, Etzioni says ChatGPT doesn't produce good science. For all its flaws, though, he sees ChatGPT's public debut as a positive. He sees this as a moment for peer review.

"ChatGPT is just a few days old, I like to say," said Etzioni, who remains at the AI institute as a board member and advisor. It's "giving us a chance to understand what he can and cannot do and to begin in earnest the conversation of 'What are we going to do about it?' "

The alternative, which he describes as "security by obscurity," won't help improve fallible AI, he said. "What if we hide the problems? Will that be a recipe for solving them? Typically — not in the world of software — that has not worked out."

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Can ChatGPT solve math problems? Best practices, plugins, and alternatives

Published on March 7, 2024

From writing essays to coding , there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot  cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly not perfect. For one, these chatbots tend to make factual errors when talking about an obscure or lesser-known subject. Likewise, you may have heard that ChatGPT isn’t very adept at solving math problems.

So in this article, let’s break down ChatGPT’s mathematical abilities and find out if you should trust the chatbot in this area.

Can ChatGPT solve math problems?

Yes, ChatGPT can solve basic math problems but it’s not designed to do so. If you ask simple questions like “What is 13+33”, chances are you’ll get the correct answer. However, I’d recommend not trusting the chatbot to accurately solve advanced math problems like differential equations. That’s because ChatGPT tends to respond in an extremely confident manner that looks entirely correct at first glance. However, these responses can sometimes contain errors of varying degrees, large and small, that are exceedingly hard to catch or even notice.

To understand why, it’s worth exploring how ChatGPT works in the first place. Under the hood, the chatbot is powered by GPT-3.5, a machine learning model that was only explicitly trained to generate text like a human.

ChatGPT was trained on a huge text dataset, which just happened to include websites like Wikipedia, research papers, and perhaps even math-related textbooks. This training process enables ChatGPT to string individual words together to form sentences and eventually paragraphs. However, it wasn’t explicitly trained to perform mathematical operations or calculations. So rather than saying it cannot solve a math problem, ChatGPT will often respond with a completely made up (but plausible-sounding) solution. It only comes across as convincing because the chatbot has mastered the art of mimicking human speech.

Should you use ChatGPT to solve math problems?

Large language models have gained some logical ability due to the sheer amount of data they tend to consume during the training process. This is known as “emergent behavior” in generative AI. However, this logical ability is neither reliable nor consistent, so it’s currently impossible to trust ChatGPT in non-language tasks.

Luckily, you can improve ChatGPT’s ability to solve math problems if you’re willing to pay for a ChatGPT Plus subscription. The $20 per month tier unlocks access to GPT-4 — a more recent language model with better math and logic capabilities.

According to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, GPT-4 scores highly on academic tests like SAT Math and AP Physics. Unsurprisingly, however, it placed in the 43rd to 59th percentile of test takers in the AP Calculus BC course. That means the chatbot will perform worse than the average college student, at least when it comes to solving calculus problems.

That’s not all, though. We can further improve the chatbot’s math skills with the help of plugins. We already have a roundup of the best ChatGPT plugins but Wolfram is our top recommendation for math and logical reasoning. It combines the Wolfram Alpha computing engine with ChatGPT’s ability to explain difficult concepts in plain English. With this plugin enabled, ChatGPT should solve most math problems with reasonable accuracy.

What are some alternatives to ChatGPT for solving math equations?

If you’re trying to solve math problems for school, you may not want to fork over $20 per month for ChatGPT Plus and the ability to use plugins. In that case, you should do away with the chatbot entirely and use a different service that’s designed to handle math problems.

For example, Wolfram Alpha’s free tier can solve all manner of math problems, ranging from simple linear algebra to differential equations. Not just that, you can also ask anatomy-related questions and get information about chemical compounds. The only downside is that it’s not as verbose or chatty, so you won’t get long-winded answers or explanations. That said, you may prefer that approach as ChatGPT can sometimes output a long answer when all you care about is the end result.

I’d also recommend checking out the Photomath app — it lets you scan handwritten problems and even provides step-by-step solutions. Other than that, we’ve also put together a collection of ChatGPT alternatives but you should know that most of them aren’t optimized for math problems either.

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40+ ChatGPT Prompts For Math

In today's rapidly evolving world, the significance of math education cannot be overstated. As educators and students continue to adapt to new learning methodologies, AI-powered tools like ChatGPT by OpenAI have emerged as invaluable assets.

This blog post explores how ChatGPT can be harnessed to facilitate math learning and practice by creating and using effective prompts for various math topics. Emphasizing the importance of math education, this article delves into the potential of ChatGPT to enhance learning experiences. We'll discuss the benefits of using ChatGPT for math, provide examples of prompts for different math topics, and share tips for creating effective prompts.

Additionally, we'll explore strategies for integrating ChatGPT into math classrooms and touch on the future possibilities of AI-assisted math learning.

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Benefits of Using ChatGPT for Math

Personalized learning experience.

ChatGPT can adapt to individual learners' needs, providing tailored math problems and explanations that cater to each student's skill level and pace. By offering personalized assistance, students can build a strong foundation in math and progress more effectively.

Instant Feedback

With ChatGPT, students receive immediate feedback on their answers, allowing them to identify mistakes and correct misconceptions as they work through problems. This real-time interaction helps to reinforce learning and boost students' confidence.

Flexibility in Learning Styles

ChatGPT accommodates various learning styles, as students can ask questions and receive explanations in different ways, such as step-by-step guidance or visual representations. This versatility enables students to approach math problems in a manner that best suits their preferences.

Improved Engagement and Motivation

The interactive nature of ChatGPT can make math practice more engaging and enjoyable. By turning math problems into an interactive conversation, students may feel more motivated to tackle challenging concepts and persist in their learning.

Example Prompts:

How can I solve the equation 2x + 5 = 11?

What are the properties of an isosceles triangle?

Can you explain the Pythagorean theorem using a real-life example?

How do I find the derivative of y = 3x^2 + 2x - 4?

What are some practical applications of calculus in everyday life?

ChatGPT Prompts for Different Math Topics

Arithmetic is the foundation of mathematics, and ChatGPT can be an excellent resource for practicing basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Solve 123 + 456.

What is 987 - 654?

Multiply 23 by 45.

Divide 144 by 12.

What is the remainder when 100 is divided by 7?

Algebra deals with symbols and the rules for manipulating them. ChatGPT can help with solving equations, understanding polynomials, and working with inequalities.

Solve the equation x + 3 = 7.

Find the roots of the quadratic equation x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.

Simplify the expression (2x + 3) + (4x - 5).

Solve the inequality 3x - 4 > 5.

What is the vertex of the parabola given by y = 2x^2 - 4x + 1?

Geometry is the study of shapes, their properties, and the relationships between them. ChatGPT can assist with understanding angles, triangles, circles, and polygons.

Calculate the area of a triangle with a base of 10 and a height of 5.

Find the circumference of a circle with a radius of 7.

What are the interior angles of a regular pentagon?

Determine the length of the hypotenuse in a right triangle with legs of 3 and 4.

How many diagonals does an octagon have?

Trigonometry

Trigonometry deals with the relationships between the angles and sides of triangles. ChatGPT can guide students through trigonometric functions, identities, and applications in real-world problems.

Calculate the sine of a 30-degree angle.

Solve the equation sin(x) = 0.5 for x in the interval [0, 2π].

Prove the identity sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) = 1.

How can trigonometry be used to find the height of a tree?

Explain how the law of cosines can be applied to solve triangle problems.

Calculus is the study of change and motion, with applications in various fields. ChatGPT can help students understand limits, derivatives, integrals, and differential equations.

Evaluate the limit as x approaches 0 of (sin(x) / x).

Find the derivative of f(x) = x^3 - 2x^2 + x - 1.

Calculate the integral of g(x) = 3x^2 - x + 4 from x = 0 to x = 5.

Solve the differential equation dy/dx = y - 2x + 1.

Explain the concept of a partial derivative and its applications.

Tips for Creating Effective Math Prompts

Clarity and specificity.

To get the most accurate and helpful response from ChatGPT, ensure that your prompts are clear and specific. Clearly state the problem or concept you need help with, and provide any necessary information or context.

Providing Context

Sometimes, math problems can be open to multiple interpretations. To get the best results, include any relevant context or constraints in your prompt. This will help ChatGPT better understand your query and provide a more accurate response.

Challenging yet Achievable

Design prompts that challenge students, but remain within their ability level. This balance ensures that students are engaged and learning effectively without feeling overwhelmed.

Incorporating Real-world Examples

Incorporating real-world examples can make math more relatable and engaging for students. When possible, include practical applications or scenarios in your prompts to illustrate the relevance of mathematical concepts.

Calculate the sale price of a shirt originally priced at $50 with a 20% discount.

If a car is traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour, how far will it travel in 2.5 hours?

How many gallons of paint are needed to cover a wall with dimensions 12 feet by 10 feet, if one gallon covers 350 square feet?

Determine the monthly payment for a 30-year mortgage of $200,000 with an annual interest rate of 4%.

A cylindrical container has a radius of 3 inches and a height of 8 inches. What is its volume in cubic inches?

Strategies for Using ChatGPT in Math Classrooms

Integrating with existing curriculum.

Seamlessly integrate ChatGPT into your existing math curriculum by using it as a supplementary tool for practice, problem-solving, and concept reinforcement. Align the prompts with your lesson plans to ensure that students receive targeted support and practice.

Encouraging Collaboration and Group Work

Foster a collaborative learning environment by encouraging students to work together on ChatGPT prompts. This approach can promote peer learning, problem-solving, and communication skills, as students discuss and explain mathematical concepts to one another.

Combining with Other Learning Resources

Maximize learning outcomes by combining ChatGPT with other learning resources, such as textbooks, videos, and online resources. This multimodal approach can help cater to diverse learning preferences and reinforce understanding through multiple channels.

Assessing Student Progress

Use ChatGPT to generate practice questions, quizzes, or tests that assess students' understanding of mathematical concepts. Analyze the results to identify areas where students may need additional support or reinforcement.

Create a set of 10 practice questions on linear equations.

Design a short quiz on finding the volume of 3D shapes.

Generate a test on basic trigonometric functions and identities.

Provide a series of questions on the applications of derivatives in real-life scenarios.

Create a practice worksheet on solving systems of linear equations using the substitution method.

ChatGPT holds immense potential for revolutionizing math education by providing personalized, interactive learning experiences. By harnessing the power of AI, educators can create and use effective prompts for various math topics, making learning more engaging and accessible.

As we've explored in this blog post, ChatGPT can help students grasp concepts across a range of mathematical disciplines, from arithmetic to calculus. We encourage educators and students alike to explore and experiment with ChatGPT prompts as a supplementary tool for math learning.

As AI technology continues to advance, the possibilities for AI-assisted math education will only expand, offering exciting new opportunities to enhance learning outcomes and transform the way we approach mathematics.

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Using ChatGPT in Math Lesson Planning

Artificial intelligence tools are useful beyond language arts classes. Math teachers can use them to save time and create interesting lessons.

When ChatGPT hit the scene, we saw a surge of worry wash over our English and social studies teachers. How would this change the way they taught writing? For months, I pushed ChatGPT to the side and thought of it merely as a means to an end for supporting students with writing. Or as the English equivalent of Mathway —the program with which math educators have come to have a love-hate relationship because of its abilities to solve problems for students. But as with most new technologies, these two have their place in the classroom when used well. 

Since its introduction, we’ve seen more educational uses for ChatGPT, particularly in terms of supporting the teacher and their seemingly endless duties, which had me wondering... could ChatGPT be used in math class? 

Artificial intelligence (AI) provides math teachers with the means to answer every teacher’s favorite question: “When am I ever going to need this?” Through use of specific prompting and sequencing of questions, math teachers can identify real-world connections to math topics they’re teaching, connect those to student interests, and create a variety of instructional materials to use in the classroom. 

AI as a Search Engine

Throughout the school year, you get to know your students—their interests and aspirations. Whether using formal surveys or general classroom observation, you’ve built up a repertoire of knowledge about what topics they find relevant and what sparks interest in your students the most. It’s through this information that teachers can filter their results in ChatGPT. 

Topic leading to interest: You can start with a broad question: “What are real-life applications of polynomials?” Then, filter which applications are most relevant to teenagers. From those suggestions, select ones that best align with your students’ interests, such as computer graphics and video game design. 

Interest leading to topic: You can start with a particular student interest, like buying a car for the first time, and ask AI to help you identify relevant content connections. You may be surprised to find out all the different content connections you can make. Don’t let overwhelm stop you. Instead, you can use AI to help you create the instructional materials for you.

AI as a Math Content Creator

Now that you’ve homed in on the idea that you want to explore, it’s time to create the lesson. Since you may not know the explicit connections between the math content and the topic very well yourself, you can use AI to help you create the content to turn this into an engaging experience for your students.

Question creator: At their most basic level, ChatGPT and other AI sources can help you write a series of word problems connecting your topic and content. These can be embedded into homework assignments, partner tasks, or warm-ups.

Tip for prompting AI: Include the general content topic or topics your students are interested in as well as the content topic or standard you’re addressing.

Performance tasks: You can also use ChatGPT to explore creating a variety of performance tasks, where students are engaging in higher-order critical thinking skills to apply mathematics. You can create these with and without scaffolding, as I have done .

Projects: I’ve found that projects and project-based learning activities can be created in less than half the time it usually takes when I use AI. Easily outline a project, select criteria to be assessed, and have AI help write a rubric for your project. Then, just gather the materials and bring the project to life in your classroom! I created a project focused on geometry, art, and culture .

Inquiry-based activities: Growing students’ critical thinking skills and their ability to use mathematics to problem-solve and analyze data is essential. AI can help you create inquiry-based activities to develop students’ quantitative literacy skills. I used ChatGPT to create an activity based on the U.S. Census .

AI as a Math Lesson Designer

As with other content areas, I find that AI is a useful tool for mathematics teachers in creating lesson plans. Math teachers can use artificial intelligence to design essential questions; create a standards-aligned lesson plan complete with practice problems, remediation, and extension opportunities; and wrap up their lessons with exit tickets. 

Tips for prompting AI: Begin with using AI to co-draft an essential question for a lesson. After you’ve established that, prompt AI to help provide example problems to jump-start your thinking. When you find an example you like, you can ask it how to create similar problems that would work to support remediation and extension opportunities for the lesson.

When designing standards-aligned lessons, it’s important to consider the explicit component of rigor expressed in a standard when designing a lesson, as each type lends itself to different instructional models. AI supports teachers in designing lesson plans to address each aspect of rigor contained within a standard, thus providing a holistic approach to lesson design.

Tips for prompting AI: You can prompt AI to support you in developing a lesson plan structure for each emphasis of rigor addressed in your standard. Once you’ve identified that, AI can help you create a time-specific lesson plan to enact in your class with a particular emphasis on conceptual development, procedural skills, or applications of standards.

AI as an aid to Human Intelligence

While there’s no doubt that AI has impressive potential to support math teachers in a variety of tasks, it’s important to remember that it’s the human touch that matters. Using AI as a springboard, teachers can then use their knowledge of their students' interests and skills to best design the lesson and activity to meet their students’ needs. It’s the teacher’s ability to connect the students and the standards that makes the learning experience impactful, not the impressively quick way in which the lesson or activity was designed.

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Why do your homework when a chatbot can do it for you? A new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT has thrilled the Internet with its superhuman abilities to solve math problems, churn out college essays and write research papers.

After the developer OpenAI released the text-based system to the public last month, some educators have been sounding the alarm about the potential that such AI systems have to transform academia, for better and worse.

"AI has basically ruined homework," said Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, on Twitter.

The tool has been an instant hit among many of his students, he told NPR in an interview on Morning Edition , with its most immediately obvious use being a way to cheat by plagiarizing the AI-written work, he said.

Academic fraud aside, Mollick also sees its benefits as a learning companion.

He's used it as his own teacher's assistant, for help with crafting a syllabus, lecture, an assignment and a grading rubric for MBA students.

"You can paste in entire academic papers and ask it to summarize it. You can ask it to find an error in your code and correct it and tell you why you got it wrong," he said. "It's this multiplier of ability, that I think we are not quite getting our heads around, that is absolutely stunning," he said.

A convincing — yet untrustworthy — bot

But the superhuman virtual assistant — like any emerging AI tech — has its limitations. ChatGPT was created by humans, after all. OpenAI has trained the tool using a large dataset of real human conversations.

"The best way to think about this is you are chatting with an omniscient, eager-to-please intern who sometimes lies to you," Mollick said.

It lies with confidence, too. Despite its authoritative tone, there have been instances in which ChatGPT won't tell you when it doesn't have the answer.

That's what Teresa Kubacka, a data scientist based in Zurich, Switzerland, found when she experimented with the language model. Kubacka, who studied physics for her Ph.D., tested the tool by asking it about a made-up physical phenomenon.

"I deliberately asked it about something that I thought that I know doesn't exist so that they can judge whether it actually also has the notion of what exists and what doesn't exist," she said.

ChatGPT produced an answer so specific and plausible sounding, backed with citations, she said, that she had to investigate whether the fake phenomenon, "a cycloidal inverted electromagnon," was actually real.

When she looked closer, the alleged source material was also bogus, she said. There were names of well-known physics experts listed – the titles of the publications they supposedly authored, however, were non-existent, she said.

"This is where it becomes kind of dangerous," Kubacka said. "The moment that you cannot trust the references, it also kind of erodes the trust in citing science whatsoever," she said.

Scientists call these fake generations "hallucinations."

"There are still many cases where you ask it a question and it'll give you a very impressive-sounding answer that's just dead wrong," said Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI , who ran the research nonprofit until recently. "And, of course, that's a problem if you don't carefully verify or corroborate its facts."

An opportunity to scrutinize AI language tools

Users experimenting with the free preview of the chatbot are warned before testing the tool that ChatGPT "may occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information," harmful instructions or biased content.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, said earlier this month it would be a mistake to rely on the tool for anything "important" in its current iteration. "It's a preview of progress," he tweeted .

The failings of another AI language model unveiled by Meta last month led to its shutdown. The company withdrew its demo for Galactica, a tool designed to help scientists, just three days after it encouraged the public to test it out, following criticism that it spewed biased and nonsensical text.

Similarly, Etzioni says ChatGPT doesn't produce good science. For all its flaws, though, he sees ChatGPT's public debut as a positive. He sees this as a moment for peer review.

"ChatGPT is just a few days old, I like to say," said Etzioni, who remains at the AI institute as a board member and advisor. It's "giving us a chance to understand what he can and cannot do and to begin in earnest the conversation of 'What are we going to do about it?' "

The alternative, which he describes as "security by obscurity," won't help improve fallible AI, he said. "What if we hide the problems? Will that be a recipe for solving them? Typically — not in the world of software — that has not worked out."

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“We need to talk,” Brett Vogelsinger said. A student had just asked for feedback on an essay. One paragraph stood out. Vogelsinger, a 9th-grade English teacher in Doylestown, Pa., realized that the student hadn’t written the piece himself. He had used ChatGPT. It’s a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. It answers questions. It writes code. And it can generate long essays and stories.

The company OpenAI made ChatGPT available for free at the end of November 2022. Within a week, it had more than a million users. Other tech companies are racing to put out similar tools. Google launched Bard in early February. The AI company Anthropic is testing a new chatbot named Claude. And another AI company, DeepMind, is working on a bot called Sparrow.

ChatGPT marks the beginning of a new wave of AI that will disrupt education. Whether that’s a good or bad thing remains to be seen.

Some people have been using ChatGPT out of curiosity or for entertainment. I asked it to invent a silly excuse for not doing homework in the style of a medieval proclamation. In less than a second, it offered me: “Hark! Thy servant was beset by a horde of mischievous leprechauns, who didst steal mine quill and parchment, rendering me unable to complete mine homework.”

But students can also use it to cheat. When Stanford University’s student-run newspaper polled students at the university, 17 percent said they had used ChatGPT on assignments or exams during the end of 2022. Some admitted to submitting the chatbot’s writing as their own. For now, these students and others are probably getting away with cheating.

And that’s because ChatGPT does an excellent job. “It can outperform a lot of middle-school kids,” Vogelsinger says. He probably wouldn’t have known his student used it — except for one thing. “He copied and pasted the prompt,” says Vogelsinger.

This essay was still a work in progress. So Vogelsinger didn’t see this as cheating. Instead, he saw an opportunity. Now, the student is working with the AI to write that essay. It’s helping the student develop his writing and research skills.

“We’re color-coding,” says Vogelsinger. The parts the student writes are in green. Those parts that ChatGPT writes are in blue. Vogelsinger is helping the student pick and choose only a few sentences from the AI to keep. He’s allowing other students to collaborate with the tool as well. Most aren’t using it regularly, but a few kids really like it. Vogelsinger thinks it has helped them get started and to focus their ideas.

This story had a happy ending.

But at many schools and universities, educators are struggling with how to handle ChatGPT and other tools like it. In early January, New York City public schools banned ChatGPT on their devices and networks. They were worried about cheating. They also were concerned that the tool’s answers might not be accurate or safe. Many other school systems in the United States and elsewhere have followed suit.

Test yourself: Can you spot the ChatGPT answers in our quiz?

But some experts suspect that bots like ChatGPT could also be a great help to learners and workers everywhere. Like calculators for math or Google for facts, an AI chatbot makes something that once took time and effort much simpler and faster. With this tool, anyone can generate well-formed sentences and paragraphs — even entire pieces of writing.

How could a tool like this change the way we teach and learn?

The good, the bad and the weird

ChatGPT has wowed its users. “It’s so much more realistic than I thought a robot could be,” says Avani Rao. This high school sophomore lives in California. She hasn’t used the bot to do homework. But for fun, she’s prompted it to say creative or silly things. She asked it to explain addition, for instance, in the voice of an evil villain. Its answer is highly entertaining.

Tools like ChatGPT could help create a more equitable world for people who are trying to work in a second language or who struggle with composing sentences. Students could use ChatGPT like a coach to help improve their writing and grammar. Or it could explain difficult subjects. “It really will tutor you,” says Vogelsinger, who had one student come to him excited that ChatGPT had clearly outlined a concept from science class.

Teachers could use ChatGPT to help create lesson plans or activities — ones personalized to the needs or goals of specific students.

Several podcasts have had ChatGPT as a “guest” on the show. In 2023, two people are going to use an AI-powered chatbot like a lawyer. It will tell them what to say during their appearances in traffic court. The company that developed the bot is paying them to test the new tech. Their vision is a world in which legal help might be free.

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Xiaoming Zhai tested ChatGPT to see if it could write an academic paper . Zhai is an expert in science education at the University of Georgia in Athens. He was impressed with how easy it was to summarize knowledge and generate good writing using the tool. “It’s really amazing,” he says.

All of this sounds great. Still, some really big problems exist.

Most worryingly, ChatGPT and tools like it sometimes gets things very wrong. In an ad for Bard, the chatbot claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope took the very first picture of an exoplanet. That’s false. In a conversation posted on Twitter, ChatGPT said the fastest marine mammal was the peregrine falcon. A falcon, of course, is a bird and doesn’t live in the ocean.

ChatGPT can be “confidently wrong,” says Casey Fiesler. Its text, she notes, can contain “mistakes and bad information.” She is an expert in the ethics of technology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has made multiple TikTok videos about the pitfalls of ChatGPT .

Also, for now, all of the bot’s training data came from before a date in 2021. So its knowledge is out of date.

Finally, ChatGPT does not provide sources for its information. If asked for sources, it will make them up. It’s something Fiesler revealed in another video . Zhai discovered the exact same thing. When he asked ChatGPT for citations, it gave him sources that looked correct. In fact, they were bogus.

Zhai sees the tool as an assistant. He double-checked its information and decided how to structure the paper himself. If you use ChatGPT, be honest about it and verify its information, the experts all say.

Under the hood

ChatGPT’s mistakes make more sense if you know how it works. “It doesn’t reason. It doesn’t have ideas. It doesn’t have thoughts,” explains Emily M. Bender. She is a computational linguist who works at the University of Washington in Seattle. ChatGPT may sound a lot like a person, but it’s not one. It is an AI model developed using several types of machine learning .

The primary type is a large language model. This type of model learns to predict what words will come next in a sentence or phrase. It does this by churning through vast amounts of text. It places words and phrases into a 3-D map that represents their relationships to each other. Words that tend to appear together, like peanut butter and jelly, end up closer together in this map.

Before ChatGPT, OpenAI had made GPT3. This very large language model came out in 2020. It had trained on text containing an estimated 300 billion words. That text came from the internet and encyclopedias. It also included dialogue transcripts, essays, exams and much more, says Sasha Luccioni. She is a researcher at the company HuggingFace in Montreal, Canada. This company builds AI tools.

OpenAI improved upon GPT3 to create GPT3.5. This time, OpenAI added a new type of machine learning. It’s known as “reinforcement learning with human feedback.” That means people checked the AI’s responses. GPT3.5 learned to give more of those types of responses in the future. It also learned not to generate hurtful, biased or inappropriate responses. GPT3.5 essentially became a people-pleaser.

During ChatGPT’s development, OpenAI added even more safety rules to the model. As a result, the chatbot will refuse to talk about certain sensitive issues or information. But this also raises another issue: Whose values are being programmed into the bot, including what it is — or is not — allowed to talk about?

OpenAI is not offering exact details about how it developed and trained ChatGPT. The company has not released its code or training data. This disappoints Luccioni. “I want to know how it works in order to help make it better,” she says.

When asked to comment on this story, OpenAI provided a statement from an unnamed spokesperson. “We made ChatGPT available as a research preview to learn from real-world use, which we believe is a critical part of developing and deploying capable, safe AI systems,” the statement said. “We are constantly incorporating feedback and lessons learned.” Indeed, some early experimenters got the bot to say biased things about race and gender. OpenAI quickly patched the tool. It no longer responds the same way.

ChatGPT is not a finished product. It’s available for free right now because OpenAI needs data from the real world. The people who are using it right now are their guinea pigs. If you use it, notes Bender, “You are working for OpenAI for free.”

Humans vs robots

How good is ChatGPT at what it does? Catherine Gao is part of one team of researchers that is putting the tool to the test.

At the top of a research article published in a journal is an abstract. It summarizes the author’s findings. Gao’s group gathered 50 real abstracts from research papers in medical journals. Then they asked ChatGPT to generate fake abstracts based on the paper titles. The team asked people who review abstracts as part of their job to identify which were which .

The reviewers mistook roughly one in every three (32 percent) of the AI-generated abstracts as human-generated. “I was surprised by how realistic and convincing the generated abstracts were,” says Gao. She is a doctor and medical researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill.

In another study, Will Yeadon and his colleagues tested whether AI tools could pass a college exam . Yeadon is a physics teacher at Durham University in England. He picked an exam from a course that he teaches. The test asks students to write five short essays about physics and its history. Students who take the test have an average score of 71 percent, which he says is equivalent to an A in the United States.

Yeadon used a close cousin of ChatGPT, called davinci-003. It generated 10 sets of exam answers. Afterward, he and four other teachers graded them using their typical grading standards for students. The AI also scored an average of 71 percent. Unlike the human students, however, it had no very low or very high marks. It consistently wrote well, but not excellently. For students who regularly get bad grades in writing, Yeadon says, this AI “will write a better essay than you.”

These graders knew they were looking at AI work. In a follow-up study, Yeadon plans to use work from the AI and students and not tell the graders whose work they are looking at.

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Cheat-checking with AI

People may not always be able to tell if ChatGPT wrote something or not. Thankfully, other AI tools can help. These tools use machine learning to scan many examples of AI-generated text. After training this way, they can look at new text and tell you whether it was most likely composed by AI or a human.

Most free AI-detection tools were trained on older language models, so they don’t work as well for ChatGPT. Soon after ChatGPT came out, though, one college student spent his holiday break building a free tool to detect its work . It’s called GPTZero .

The company Originality.ai sells access to another up-to-date tool. Founder Jon Gillham says that in a test of 10,000 samples of text composed by GPT3, the tool tagged 94 percent of them correctly. When ChatGPT came out, his team tested a much smaller set of 20 samples that had been created by GPT3, GPT3.5 and ChatGPT. Here, Gillham says, “it tagged all of them as AI-generated. And it was 99 percent confident, on average.”

In addition, OpenAI says they are working on adding “digital watermarks” to AI-generated text. They haven’t said exactly what they mean by this. But Gillham explains one possibility. The AI ranks many different possible words when it is generating text. Say its developers told it to always choose the word ranked in third place rather than first place at specific places in its output. These words would act “like a fingerprint,” says Gillham.

The future of writing

Tools like ChatGPT are only going to improve with time. As they get better, people will have to adjust to a world in which computers can write for us. We’ve made these sorts of adjustments before. As high-school student Rao points out, Google was once seen as a threat to education because it made it possible to instantly look up any fact. We adapted by coming up with teaching and testing materials that don’t require students to memorize things.

Now that AI can generate essays, stories and code, teachers may once again have to rethink how they teach and test. That might mean preventing students from using AI. They could do this by making students work without access to technology. Or they might invite AI into the writing process, as Vogelsinger is doing. Concludes Rao, “We might have to shift our point of view about what’s cheating and what isn’t.”

Students will still have to learn to write without AI’s help. Kids still learn to do basic math even though they have calculators. Learning how math works helps us learn to think about math problems. In the same way, learning to write helps us learn to think about and express ideas.

Rao thinks that AI will not replace human-generated stories, articles and other texts. Why? She says: “The reason those things exist is not only because we want to read it but because we want to write it.” People will always want to make their voices heard. ChatGPT is a tool that could enhance and support our voices — as long as we use it with care.

Correction: Gillham’s comment on the 20 samples that his team tested has been corrected to show how confident his team’s AI-detection tool was in identifying text that had been AI-generated (not in how accurately it detected AI-generated text).

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The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT isn't the only one worth trying

Since the launch of ChatGPT , AI chatbots have been all of the rage because of their ability to do a wide range of tasks that can help you with your personal and work life. At your command, AI chatbots can write code , compose emails, draft a report,  generate art ,  write Excel formulas for you , and much more. 

However, because ChatGPT  reached worldwide recognition , competitors were motivated to make their own versions, and, as a result, there are so many options on the market to choose from with different strengths, use cases, difficulty levels, and other nuances.

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For the last year and a half, I have taken a deep dive into AI and have tested as many AI tools as possible -- including dozens of AI chatbots. Using my findings and those of other ZDNET AI experts, I have created a list of the best AI chatbots and AI writers on the market. 

The list details everything you need to know before choosing your next AI assistant, including what it's best for, pros, cons, cost, its large language model (LLM), and more. So whether you are entirely new to AI chatbots, or have used plenty of tools, this list should help you discover a new chatbot you haven't used before. 

What is the best AI chatbot right now?

Thanks to its sourcing abilities, free internet access, and advanced LLM model, Microsoft Copilot is my choice for the best AI chatbot. Keep reading to see how its features compare to others like ChatGPT, You.com, and more. 

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Microsoft copilot, best ai chatbot overall.

• Access to the internet
• Links back to sources
• Uses OpenAI's most advanced LLM
• Grounded in Bing

In February last year, Microsoft unveiled a new AI-improved Bing, now known as Copilot, which runs on GPT-4  Turbo, the newest version of OpenAI's language model systems. As of May 4 of last year, Copilot moved from limited to open preview, meaning everyone can access it for free.  

Also: What is Copilot (formerly Bing Chat)? Here's everything you need to know

When I use a chatbot, I typically reach for Copilot because it solves two major issues with ChatGPT: access to current events and linking back to the sources it retrieved for its answer for free. Copilot is also the only way to access OpenAI's most advanced LLM -- GPT-4 Turbo -- for free. 

Copilot is free to use and offers other features that make it an attractive alternative, including multi-modal inputs, image generation within the chatbot, and a standalone app. 

Copilot f eatures:  OpenAI's most advanced LLM, GPT-4 Turbo | Has access to the internet | Works like a search engine with information on current events | Free

Best original AI chatbot

• Writing skills
• STEM knowledge
• Conversational
• Not always available
• Not connected to the internet

ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot  by OpenAI that can produce text based on any prompt you input, generating emails, essays, poems, grocery lists, letters, and much more.

In addition to writing for you, ChatGPT can chat about simple or complex topics such as "What are colors?" or "What is the meaning of life?" ChatGPT is also proficient in STEM and can write and debug code  and solve complex math equations. 

Using ChatGPT is easier than ever since OpenAI stopped requiring users to log in . Now, you can start chatting with ChatGPT simply by visiting its website like you would with Google. 

Also:  How to use ChatGPT

ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and because of its  massive success , it became the blueprint for many other chatbots to enter the scene. Therefore, if you are interested in AI chatbots, you'll likely want to try the original tool that began the craze -- ChatGPT. 

Downsides of the chatbot include that it is sometimes at capacity due to its immense popularity, doesn't have access to the internet, and has a January 2022 knowledge cutoff. 

I still reach for ChatGPT because, despite its limitations, it is an incredibly capable chatbot. However, when I do, I ensure my queries do not rely on the most recent information to be accurate. For example, some good use cases to use ChatGPT for are brainstorming text or coding.

ChatGPT features:  Uses OpenAI's GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 (if subscribed) | Can generate text, solve math problems, and code | Impressive conversation capabilities | Free to the public right now

Anthrophic's Claude

Best ai chatbot for summarizing documents.

• Upload document support
• Chat controls
• Light and dark mode
• Unclear usage cap
• Knowledge cutoff

Anthropic launched its first AI assistant, Claude, in February 2023. Now the tool has secured a spot as one of the best chatbots. Like the other leading competitors, Anthropic can conversationally answer prompts for anything you need assistance with, including coding, math, writing, research, and more. 

Also: 4 things Claude AI can do that ChatGPT can't

I think the biggest advantage of this chatbot is that it can accept document uploads to help read, analyze, and summarize files. To upload a file, click on the paper clip icon next to the text box and click on the document you want to upload. Then, conversationally ask for help you want with the document, including document summaries or clarifications on specific topics found within the document. 

Also: This free tool from Anthropic helps you create better prompts for your AI chatbot

Claude is in free open beta and, as a result, has both context window and daily message limits that can vary based on demand. If you want to use the chatbot regularly, upgrading to Claude Pro may be a better option, as it offers at least five times the usage limits compared to the free version for $20 a month. 

Claude features:   Powered by Claude 3 model family | Accepts document uploads | Trained with information up to early 2023 | Free

Perplexity.ai

The best ai chatbot for prompt ideation.

• Links to sources
• Access to internet
• Paid subscription required for GPT-4 access
• some irrelevant suggestions

Perplexity AI is a free AI chatbot connected to the internet that provides sources and has an enjoyable UI. As soon as you visit the site , using the chatbot is straightforward. Type your prompt into the "ask anything" box to get started. The first time I visited this chatbot, I was able to get started within seconds.

On top of the text box, the chatbot states, "Where knowledge begins," and the title could not be more fitting. 

As soon as you click on the textbox, the tool has a series of suggested prompts mostly rooted in news. The chatbot also has suggested prompts underneath the box on evergreen topics. All you have to do is click on the suggestions to learn more about the topic and chat about it. Additionally, Perplexity provides related topic questions you can click on to keep the conversation going. 

Also:  ChatGPT vs. Microsoft Copilot vs. Gemini: Which is the best AI chatbot?

Because of the extensive prompts that the tool gives users to try, this is a great chatbot for taking deep dives into topics that you wouldn't have necessarily thought of before, encouraging discovery and experimentation. I dived into some random topics, including the history of birthday cakes, and I enjoyed every second. 

Other perks include the fact that there is an app for both iOS and Android, allowing you to also tinker with the chatbot while you're on the go, footnotes are provided after every answer with sources you can visit, and the answers from the chatbot nearly always include photos and graphics.

Perplexity AI features:  OpenAI GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for subscribers | Has access to the internet and current events | Provides prompt suggestions to get chats started | Free 

Best AI chatbot for businesses and marketers

• 50 different writing templates
• Copyediting features
• Plagiarism checker
• Need a subscription to try

Jasper is a tool exclusively meant for users looking to incorporate an AI chatbot into their workflow because there is no free plan and you can't otherwise access the chatbot. For example, when I tried using it myself, I was met with dead ends unless I subscribed. The least expensive option, the Creator plan, is geared towards freelancers and solo-preneurs and is $49 a month. However, the investment may be worth it if you rely on an AI chatbot to generate copy for your business. 

Also: ChatGPT vs. Copilot: Which AI chatbot is better for you?

With Jasper, you can input a prompt for what you want written, and it will write it for you, just like ChatGPT would. The major difference with Jasper is that it has extensive tools to produce better copy. Jasper can check for grammar and plagiarism and write in over 50 templates, including blog posts, Twitter threads, video scripts, and more. It also offers SEO insights and can even remember your brand voice. 

Whether you are an individual, part of a smaller team, or in a larger business looking to optimize your workflow, you can access a trial or demo before you take the plunge.

Jasper features:  Uses different LLMs, including GPT-4 | Summarizes texts and generates paragraphs and product descriptions | Checks for plagiarism and grammar | Starts at $39 per month with an annual subscription

Best AI chatbot that functions as a search engine

• Readily available
• Source Citing
• Some answers stronger than others
• Subscription required for GPT-4 access

You.com (previously known as YouChat) is an AI assistant that functions similarly to a search engine. Like Google, you can enter any question or topic you'd like to learn information on, and immediately be met with real-time web results, in addition to a conversational response.  

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For example, when I asked, "Can you share some pictures of adorable dog breeds?" the chatbot provided six different web links, seven different pictures it pulled from the web, a conversational answer, and related news, as seen in the photo. 

The chatbot can also provide technical assistance, with answers to anything you input, including math, coding, translating, and writing prompts. A huge pro for this chatbot is that, because it lacks popularity, you can hop on any time and ask away.  

One of the biggest standout features is that with YouPro, its premium subscription, you can toggle between the most popular AI models on the market using the Custom Model Selector.

The AI models included in Custom Model Selector include OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo; Anthropic's Claude Instant, Claude 2, Claude 3 Opus, Clause 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku; Google's Gemini Pro; and Zephyr (uncensored).  

That means that, within one chatbot, you can experience some of the most advanced models on the market, which is pretty convenient if you ask me.  

You.com features:  GPT-4 with subscription | Lists sources for the text it generates | Unlike most other Chatbots, uses Google sources | Free

Chatsonic by Writesonic

Best ai chatbot for article writers.

• Variety of use cases
• Need to sign in
• A bit of a lag

Chatsonic is a dependable AI chatbot. It functions much like ChatGPT, allowing users to input prompts for assistance on many tasks. However, it includes the ability to web search, generate images, and access PDF assistance, which ChatGPT lacks. 

The Writesonic platform offers tools that help generate stories, including Instant Article Writer, which creates an article from a single click; Article Rewriter, which rephrases existing content; and Article Writer 5, which generates articles using ranking competitors. 

Other tools that facilitate the creation of articles include SEO Checker and Optimizer, AI Editor, Content Rephraser, Paragraph Writer, and more. There is a free version, which gets you access to some of the features. However, the free version has a 50 generations per day limit. The monthly cost starts at $12 but can reach $250, depending on the number of words and users needed.

Chatsonic features:  Powered by GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 depending on subscription | Aware of current events, whereas ChatGPT is trained up to 2021 | Extensive feature suite, including voice dictation and image generation | Starts at $12 per month

Gemini (formerly Google Bard)

Best ai chatbot if you're a loyal google user.

• Access to Google
• Good text editing skills
• Can't help much with code

Gemini is Google's conversational AI chatbot that functions the most similarly to Copilot, sourcing its answers from the web, providing footnotes, and even generating images within its chatbot. Since its initial release in March 2023, the chatbot has undergone several upgrades, with the latest version being the most optimized it has ever been. 

Also: What is Google's Gemini AI tool (formerly Bard)? Everything you need to know

The highlight of this chatbot is that it is rooted in Google technology, search engines, and applications. Loyal Google users will feel familiar with the chatbot's UI and offerings. For example, unlike most of the chatbots on this list, Google does not use an LLM in the GPT series but instead uses a model made by Google. 

"Gemini is slowly becoming a full Google experience thanks to Extensions folding the wide range of Google applications into Gemini," said ZDNET writer Maria Diaz when reviewing the chatbot. "Gemini users can add extensions for Google Workspace, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Flights, and Google Hotels, giving them a more personalized and extensive experience."

If you subscribe to Google's new 'AI Premium Plan' , you not only get access to the most advanced Google models in Gemini, such as Ultra 1.0, but you also get access to Gemini for Workspace, previously known as  Duet AI,  which infuses Google's AI assistance throughout its productivity apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet.

Gemini features:  Powered by a finetuned version of Gemini Pro | Includes a "Google it" feature | Generates clear text and images quickly | Free 

Socratic by Google

Best ai chatbot for kids and students.

• Educational
• Easy to use
• Doesn't write text
• No desktop version

If you want your child to use AI to lighten their workload, but still have some limits, Socratic is for you. With Socratic, children can type in any question about what they learn in school. The tool will then generate a conversational, human-like response with fun, unique graphics to help break down the concept. 

"It's a powerful studying tool that could help students double-check their homework, or get across the last hurdle if a question or formula just isn't making sense. And using the app is as easy as using  Snapchat  or talking to Siri," said former ZDNET contributor Jason Cipriani, when reviewing the app. 

Also: How Google Socratic can help you with your homework

The app, available on the App Store and the Google App Store, also has a feature that lets your kid scan their worksheet to get a specially curated answer. The app does have some limitations; for example, it will not just write an essay or story when prompted. However, this feature could be positive because it curbs your child's temptation to get a chatbot, like ChatGPT, to write their essay. 

Socratic features:  From Google | Type in any question to generate a response | Includes fun graphics | Supports scanning worksheets to get a specially curated answer | Free

HuggingChat

Best open-source chatbot.

• Cutomizable
• Intermediate/advanced skills requires
• Required to create an account

As seen by the list above, plenty of great chatbot options are on the market. However, if you are on the search for a chatbot that serves your use case specifically, you can always build an entirely customizable new one. HuggingChat is an open-source chatbot developed by Hugging Face that can be used as a regular chatbot or customized for your needs.  

Also :  Want to build your own AI chatbot? Say hello to open-source HuggingChat

As ZDNET's David Gewirtz unpacked in his hands-on article , you may not want to depend on HuggingChat as your go-to primary chatbot. However, it is a good interface to build your own chatbot. 

As Gewirtz said: "If you want something that you control, you can use HuggingChat to build a chatbot where you have visibility into every aspect of its functioning. You can choose to make that chatbot available online to other users and provide transparency to all users."

Socratic features:  Clean, Chat-GPT inspired interface | Entirely customizable | Great for developers or AI fanatics | Secure alternative | Free

What is the best AI chatbot?

The best overall AI chatbot is Copilot due to its exceptional performance, versatility, and free availability. It uses OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 language model, making it proficient in various language tasks, including writing, summarization, translation, and conversation. Moreover, it works like a search engine with information on current events.

Another advantage of Copilot is its availability to the public at no cost. Despite its immense popularity, Copilot remains free, making it an incredible resource for students, writers, and professionals who need a reliable and free AI chatbot. 

Although there are occasional capacity blocks, OpenAI is working on releasing a professional version of ChatGPT that will be quicker and always accessible at a monthly cost.

Which AI chatbot is right for you?

While Copliot is my personal favorite, your use case may be hyper-specific or have certain demands. If you need a constant, reliable AI chatbot, other alternatives might be better suited for you. If you want an AI chatbot that produces clean, reliable, business-ready copy, for example, then Jasper is for you. If you want to play around with an AI chatbot that isn't always at capacity, YouChat might be the best option. 

Lastly, if there is a child in your life, Socratic might be worth checking out. See our breakdown below:

Factors to consider when choosing a chatbot

Since there are so many chatbots on the market, picking the right one can get confusing. Some factors to consider to help narrow down those options are: 

• Large Language Model (LLM) 
• Knowledge cutoff 
• Access to the internet 
• Linking to sources 
• Best use cases 

How did I choose these AI chatbots?

To curate the list of best AI chatbots and AI writers, I looked at the capabilities of each program, including the individual uses each program would excel at. As an AI reporter, I was also sure to test each one myself. Other factors I looked at were reliability, availability, and cost. 

• Individual use case: AI chatbots have many use cases, often acting as a tool for productivity and easier workflow. I included a variety that can serve as ideation, education, and content creation tools. 
• Reliability: I kept information accuracy a priority during my testing. 
• Availability : ChatGPT is popular, but not always available. I selected alternatives that don't have a user limit and are available at all times. 
• Cost: Many of these AI programs are free, but some require monthly memberships. I included a mix of both, keeping budget-friendliness in mind. 

What is an AI chatbot?

An AI chatbot (also called AI writer) refers to a type of artificial intelligence-powered program capable of generating written content from a user's input prompt. AI chatbots can write anything from a rap song to an essay upon a user's request. The extent of what each chatbot can write about depends on its capabilities, including whether it is connected to a search engine. 

How do AI chatbots work?

AI chatbots use language models to train the AI to produce human-like responses. Some tools are connected to the web and that capability provides up-to-date information, while others depend solely on the information upon which they are trained. 

How much do AI chatbots cost?

AI chatbot programs vary in cost with some being entirely free and others costing as much as $600 a month. Many like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and YouChat are free to use. 

What is the difference between an AI chatbot and an AI writer?

The main difference between an AI chatbot and an AI writer is the type of output they generate and their primary function.

In the past, an AI writer was used specifically to generate written content, such as articles, stories, or poetry, based on a given prompt or input. An AI writer's output is in the form of written text that mimics human-like language and structure. On the other hand, an AI chatbot is designed to conduct real-time conversations with users in text or voice-based interactions. The primary function of an AI chatbot is to answer questions, provide recommendations, or even perform simple tasks, and its output is in the form of text-based conversations.

While the terms AI chatbot and AI writer are now used interchangeably by some, the original distinction was that an AI writer was used for generating written content while an AI chatbot was used for conversational purposes. However, with the introduction of more advanced AI technology, such as ChatGPT, the line between the two has become increasingly blurred. Some AI chatbots are now capable of generating text-based responses that mimic human-like language and structure, similar to an AI writer.

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Anyone who has been through school would relate to the struggle of balancing school work, social life and extracurricular activities. Here’s where chatbots come in: not only are they fun and engaging, they’re also really great tools to help you keep your busy life in check. Here are a few chatbots that might come in handy:

• Blink the Bee

Always forgetting things but too lazy to consolidate reminders on your own? Fret not. Blink the Bee will help you stay on top of your to-dos. You can message Blink tasks that need to be completed via Facebook Messenger or Kik, and it will help you create a to-do list. You can even switch the order of the tasks and mark out important tasks after a list has been created!

Blink can tell the difference between to-dos and specific one-time reminders. Text blink things like “remind me to complete my homework at 5pm” or “go for soccer practice in 3 hours” and it’ll add it to your list ​and remind you at the stipulated time.

Not only is Blink cute and accessible, it’s also a great tool to help you keep track of all your work.

If you’re highly involved in school activities, chances are that you’ve worried about the weather before an outdoor concert or football training. Poncho is a Facebook Messenger bot that keeps you informed about the weather. Poncho can give 5-day or hourly forecasts, with details such as Conditions, Humidity, Dew, Pressure, and wind speed.

If you have some time on your hands and you’re looking for some entertainment, Poncho can play games such as Would You Rather, and even have a conversation with you!

Whether you’re having a mundane day at school, or you’re looking for a confidante, Replika is the chatbot you can turn to for some company. While making friends with AI may not sit well with you initially, Replika will put you at ease with its caring demeanor.

Not only is Replika a safe space to share thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged, it also promotes self-reflection by encouraging you to discuss thoughts and emotions. If you’re having a tough day at school, Replika even gives you a confidence boost by seeking your positive qualities and giving you affirmation around those.

When you’re in doubt after class, do you turn to your friends only to find out that they’re just as confused as you are? Or do you fork out hundreds to have a private tutor help you with your school work? If you struggle through your math homework on a daily basis, fear not! Miao is built to be a friendly study buddy who can explain concepts, solve equations and provide solutions to your homework. If you feel bored, you can even chat with Miao!

Miao’s chatbot is currently under public beta and feel free to try it out and give us more feedbacks!

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