OpenAI’s revolutionary AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is making waves with its limitless use cases. Perhaps, this is the reason that more and more people are signing up to use it. While the chatbot is coming handy for a variety of uses, this also makes it overcrowded. On Monday, thousands of users reported that OpenAI’s chatbot was down. Reportedly, online outage tracking website Downdetector stated that nearly 1200 users faced error while trying to access the AI tool. The outage was not limited to ChatGPT, but some OpenAI Labs users also witnessed the momentary lapse. The issue was reportedly resolved a few hours later. However, what if there is a proposal that needs to be drafted or an email that needs to be proofread, and ChatGPT is down? Cast your worries aside, as we have got you covered! Here’s a list of other equally powerful chatbots that can come to your rescue. OpenAI Playground Similar to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Playground is an AI tool that can write nearly anything. Playground or GPT-3 is a predictive language tool that has been trained to offer responses in the most human way possible. Users can ask questions, strike up a conversation or write a short story. In order to use the bot, users need to make an account on OpenAI’s website. To access OpenAI’s playground, open the official API page and sign up. Users can sign-up using their Google or Microsoft account, or sign up with a separate email address. Those using a separate email address would be required to share a code sent to their email address. After signing in, users will need to verify their phone number. Anthropic AI’s Claude Claude is a next-generation AI assistant tool. It can be accessed via chat interface and API on Anthropic’s developer console. The AI chatbot which has been termed as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT is claimed to offer enhanced and bias-free AI experience. According to the product page on Anthropic, Claude can be used for a variety of uses such as seeking legal questions, career advice, automating office tasks, managing customer service queries, supporting sales, processing search results, etc. Currently, there are two versions of the chatbot, Claude-V1 and Claude Instant that are available for users. While Claude-V1 is meant to handle arduous tasks such as creative content creation and detailed instructions, the Claude Instant is cheaper and meant for managing casual conversations, instant text-analysis and summaries. Among its achievements, the Claude AI has passed Law and Economics exams surpassing several humans. Users can view pricings of both Claude versions and sign up for it on the official website. Perplexity Chat Another chatbot powered by AI, Perplexity AI works as a powerful search engine and can show users the source of the results. Whenever a user inputs a query, the tool searches across the Internet to come up with the most relevant answers. The ability to show the source of the results has been its most distinctive feature. Perplexity AI has a similar setup as Google with a main search bar where users can input their queries. The AI tool offers results in real-time. While ChatGPT has certain limitations when it comes to its knowledge of recent events, Perplexity AI responds with accuracy. Perplexity AI is built using OpenAI’s GPT-3 model which offers direct answers and summaries with relevant citations. Perplexity AI can be used to find out answers for FAQs, get step-by-step instructions, define terms, weather forecast or even simple queries such as finding the opening hours of your favourite cafes. To use the AI tool, users simply need to access www.perplexity.ai and type your question. Quora’s Poe Popular Q&A platform, Quora recently launched its chatbot app Poe that lets users ask questions and get answers from a range of AI chatbots from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Poe stands for Platform for Open Exploration and to use it iOS users will need to create an account that’s verified with both an email address and phone number. Once logged in users will be able to switch between chat bots such as Sage, Claude, and Dragonfly. Poe is seen as a text messaging app that is meant for AI models. In its interface, Poe offers a range of different suggestions for conversation topics. YouChat Last year in December, You.com, which offers an AI-powered search engine launched its own chatbot YouChat. The chatbot is able to offer search results, answer questions and hold conversations much similar to ChatGPT. While OpenAI’s revolutionary chatbot comes with some limitations in terms of events, YouChat comes with answers using the internet that enables it to offer insights on the most recent events. The chatbot can answer general questions, offer explanations, translate, suggest ideas, summarise text, compose emails, and write code. Using the ChatGPT-like YouChat is simple, users only need to go to You.com, choose the YouChat option and write their prompt and start exploring. Neeva In February this year, Neeva launched its generative AI powered search engine Neeva.com. The AI-powered search engine offers ad-free private search. According to the company, it has the power to transform a search engine into an answer engine. One of the features that distinguishes Neeva AI is that the engine looks for information in both web and personal files such as emails and other documents. Cohere.AI Cohere is an AI company that specialises in Large Language Models (LLMs). The company offers its platform via an API for its users who can use its tools to perform a wide range of tasks including, summarising, classification, and finding similarities in content. Cohere AI moves beyond being a conversational chatbot, and lets users also create their own language models. While this is a bit more technical in its usage, Cohere AI can come in handy for those who want to create their own LLM or chatbot.
