AI chatbots are flooding mobile app stores

There was a time when searching for information on the Internet meant first choosing a search engine with which to do it. Until Google came along and almost everyone started using it. Something similar is happening with artificial intelligence. With the popularization of ChatGPT, so-called chatbots or conversational chats began to appear. Many of them are presented in the form of applications for mobile phones. Although very few people use ChatGPT on phones these days.

The truth is that chatbots can help us with practical tasks more than we think. Especially if we carry it in our pocket. For example, it can perform calculations, allow us to learn new knowledge or practice languages. For example, in the ChatGPT application we can communicate loudly 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 is because OpenAI allows software developers to use their AI. Today, artificial intelligence in chat is largely the business of two companies: OpenAI with ChatGPT and Google with Gemini, the company’s name for the artificial intelligence it just replaced its chatbot Bard with.

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, an artificial intelligence engine from Adobe (creators of Photoshop). While DALL-E is the most used and popular option today, Firefly includes increasingly powerful features.

The new Samsung Galaxy S24 has built-in artificial intelligence and can perform simultaneous translation.

Google just announced this week that Bard is now simply called Gemini, available online in 40 languages ​​and with the new Gemini app for Android, and on iOS it will be available through the Google app for the iPhone operating system. Some elements of Google’s artificial intelligence have been spotted in the new Samsung Galaxy S24 with built-in artificial intelligence. Among their functions, for example, is the translation of conversations between interlocutors into 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 Gemini, the most advanced version is Ultra, which will be called Gemini Advanced and has personal tutor features that adapt to the user’s learning style. To access this top-notch modality, you must subscribe to the Google One AI Premium plan, the first two months of which are free, and then at a rate of 21.99 euros per month.

Therefore, the most commonly used chatbots are free ones. And if we have to settle on one of them, there is little doubt which option is the best: Copilot from Microsoft. Let us remind you that the American company financially supports OpenAI to make ChatGPT a reality. Copilot, available in web and app form, can help us with many tasks. But it doesn’t offer all the features of ChatGPT. One key limitation: our questions to the co-pilot cannot be longer than 4,000 characters. What doesn’t happen with ChatGPT. This does not allow Copilot, for example, to process long texts.

It is also worth exploring the possibility of using ChatGPT based chatbots from the WhatsApp application. For those who primarily use this messaging app, it can be very useful to use chatbots such as Carina IA, which is capable of transcribing audio messages and answering questions, or the popular LuzIA, which is even capable of generating images.

One option is to use chat services (Carina IA, LuzIA) from the WhatsApp application.

The recent introduction of the so-called GPT Store on ChatGPT is turning the already complex world of artificial intelligence on its head. In these types of stores we can find online services and chatbots. To access it we must be subscribed to ChatGPT. This now makes more sense as GPTs multiply the practical capabilities of artificial intelligence.

Among the most popular GPTs that we can use currently is Consensus. This service is a database of academic information from which we can request articles using a chatbot. Something very practical. Not only for academic professionals, but for anyone who wants to gain knowledge on a specific topic.

Veed’s Video GPT chatbot is also quite amazing. This tool allows you to create videos simply by describing them. Even in Spanish. Although, unless we choose the paid version, the watermark that appears on the final footage cannot be removed.

The best thing about Video GPT is that the video template we’ve 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 in some cases it can be useful when we learn to know its strengths and weaknesses.

While there are several payment options, Microsoft Copilot stands out among the free ones.

Also quite popular is the “Write for Me” service, which promises to improve our writing. Its main advantage is that this system can improve the structure of the text if we want to create sections, chapters, indexes or anything else that is related to the structure of the text. By the way, the best way to find out what a chatbot does is to first ask it what it can do.

Although artificial intelligence has raised many surprises and concerns, it is still in its early stages of development. But it is mature enough that we can start using it on mobile, computer and any device that allows us to access a chatbot. The offer is wide.

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