by OpenAI
ChatGPT
A general-purpose assistant you talk to in plain language, which will write, rewrite, explain, summarise and make pictures.
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What it is good at
Stands out for
- The one most people have already heard of, which matters when you need someone else to use it too.
- Genuinely general: it is a reasonable second-best at almost everything in this directory.
- The free tier is good enough to find out whether the job is even doable.
Where it falls down
- It is a blank box, and a blank box is the hardest interface there is when you do not know what to ask for.
- It does not connect to your calendar, your accounts or your phone unless you make it.
- It will produce a confident wrong answer in exactly the same tone as a right one.
Jobs it is a candidate for
- Rewrite this so a normal person understands itDoes this well
Good at plain-English rewrites, and will keep the numbers if you tell it to.
- Read this long thing for me and tell me what mattersDoes this well
Handles long documents you paste or upload; ask it for obligations and dates specifically.
- Look into something properly before I commitDoes this well
Will search the web and cite, but the citations need opening.
- Write the email I keep meaning to send my customersDoes this well
Fine for getting to a draft. It will not manage your list or send anything.
- Deal with customers who don't speak my languageDoes this well
Strong across common language pairs, and better than most at keeping tone.
- Make decent pictures for my businessDoes this well
Makes images from a description, including text in images, at social-post quality.
- Answer questions from my own files and documentsCan, once set up
You can upload files, but building something colleagues can query takes setting up.
- Put a quote together fasterCan, once set up
It can format and word a quote. It will not do your pricing or send it.
The details, and where they came from
- How is it priced?
- Free tier, then paid plansVendor saysSource
- Cheapest way to do the job for real, per month
- Not establishedNot checkedNo source recorded · No entry price has been established for this listing. Check the vendor's own pricing page.
- Is there a free tier good enough to try it?
- YesVendor saysSource
- Does it train on what you put in?
- We do not knowNot checkedNo source recorded
- Where is your data held?
- We do not knowNot checkedNo source recorded
- Can you get your data back out?
- We do not knowNot checkedNo source recorded
- Can you speak to a person if it goes wrong?
- We do not knowNot checkedNo source recorded
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Our assessment
We have not reviewed ChatGPT. It is listed because it is a genuine candidate for the jobs above, not because anyone here has judged it.
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