OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini are the hottest generative AI applications in Canada today. You can use the basic versions for free, but you have to pay to access the more powerful versions. Therefore, it is important to make the right choice.
How much does it cost ?
Google is “selling” Gemini Advanced – which, to better mix its users, offers access to a language model called Gemini Ultra 1.0 – for $27 a month, after the first two months are free. The subscription includes 2 terabytes of cloud storage and a few other services. It will soon allow Gemini to be used in the Workspace suite, which includes a word processor, spreadsheet and Gmail messaging.
ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI's most advanced version of AI, also costs $27 per month. At this price, generative AI can surf the web, create images with its companion tool Dall-E, and use a variety of other plug-ins.
Copilot was developed by Microsoft based on GPT, OpenAI's extended language model that supports ChatGPT. Copilot Pro also costs $27 per month and promises the best version of GPT to use in the office suite.
How it works ?
ChatGPT is available on the Internet or via a mobile application of the same name on iPhone and Android. We interact mainly in writing or can speak to him, even in French. On a mobile phone, you can create shortcuts on the home screen to automate certain tasks. GPT-3.5 is the standard language model. You have to pay to use GPT-4, which is much better. We expect GPT 4.5 in the fall.
Copilot Pro promises priority access to the GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo language models even during rush hour. This is a chat optimized version of it. Copilot focuses on online research and provides short, illustrated answers with verifiable sources. Copilot Pro is more at home in the office suite. He can design texts in Word or spreadsheets in Excel. Still, it's worth reading again. Copilot is available as a web version or as an application for Windows, Mac and mobile devices.
Google's Gemini lives on the web and has an experimental application for Android. It then replaces the Google Assistant. In April we expect Gemini 1.5, which can record 700,000 words, 11 hours of sound clips or an hour of video at once. Google believes a filmmaker could use it to predict moviegoer ratings, or that a company could upload its financial data to automate much of its accounting.
The best AI?
Which AI is the best? It depends on. Especially because they are constantly evolving and the mistakes or untruths made one day are erased and corrected the next…
However, keep in mind that none of these AIs are good at math, as all three are probabilistic language models and not voice-controlled calculators.
ChatGPT captures nuances poorly and often makes mistakes. The schoolwork assigned to him is likely to be full of errors that are easy for an experienced teacher to spot. ChatGPT Plus is more accurate. He may be asked to summarize the texts transmitted in small portions, maximum 4000 characters at a time. You can add entire attachments, e.g. B. Submit PDFs. The images produced are well done, but you need to express your thoughts well to achieve the desired result.
Copilot limits its interaction to 2000 characters per text and five reminders per conversation. Copilot Pro doubles its power, but responses are generally short. We have the impression that we have a search engine in our hands, whose often illustrated answers then enable us to explore the cited sources. Copilot Pro comes in handy in Office, where it can summarize texts in Word or email conversations in Outlook and, as a bonus, offers improvements to our own creations.
Geminis seem to have the most accurate answers, even to the wrong questions asked to catch them out. We can't wait to see Gemini 1.5, as the version launched in Canada in early February is already running very well. Gemini Advanced answers questions faster than its two competitors and provides hyperlinks when necessary. Integration with Docs, Sheets and other applications is not yet complete, but you create the documents yourself following the instructions and that's it. Following his instructions, we were able to produce, in three minutes, a spreadsheet showing the quarterly financial results of a large Montreal company since its public listing five years ago.
And the others ?
These three do not have a monopoly on generative AI. For example, the company Anthropic offers Claude AI, an AI that is more ethical and less creative than ChatGPT, but is not officially accessible from Canada. Meta has its own language model called Llama, which has limited public access. Cohere, a Canadian AI, is aimed at the business market and is also not directly available to the public.