These are the six AI chat technologies that I have tried out so far:
– Sam Altman – OpenAI – ChatGPT
– Google Gemini
– Mark Zuckerberg – Meta – Llama 3
– China DeepSeek
– Elon Musk – xAI Grok 4
– Dario and Daniela Amodei – Anthropic Claude (how to remove yellow?)
I am setting this up to share with others who may want to try AI. Let me know if my instructions work or make sense. This is somewhat half-baked and I go in periodically and update it. Once you get one working, you can get a far better currently updated answer than what I have below – see Grok 4 results on a separate page here:
https://davebright55.com/six-ai-technologies/
I will continue with my own experience below…In general, they all use a question and answer dialoge, and work like a “conversation with every expert on the planet”, but depending on each level of training, every answer must me verified. They are amazing to me, compared to Google search, which I have found has become less and less useful over 18 years, as paid advertizing has almost totally buried the answers I am looking for with a minefield of distractions and clickbait. I will make the distinction of where it is installed, either my Google Pixel 6a Android phone or my Windows 10 laptop, or both.
1 . ChatGPT Intall on your phone from app store Microsoft Bing which is like their Google search, then you will see Copilot icon at the bottom, just click that and it will open a dialogue (easiest)
2. Gemini from Google via the Chrome browser, Android phone or Windows 10 PC
3. Llama 3 from Meta
4. DeepSeek on Android
5. Grok 4 (I paid annual about $200 USD for a “blue checkmark” to be verified on X to get it, not sure about what non-paid users see)
6. Claude I just set this up Oct 22 and tried it once so far…
Since the interface for each can be confusing, flaky, crashing, etc. rather than loosing a lot of work on some detailed question that you have formulated, I find it best to key in your question into something stable like Microsoft Word, an email to yourself, a Google note document, or text document. Otherwise, you may go to some other function, then return and your question is gone. Also, the replies sometimes contain non-text or wierd formatting that needs to be fixed. I prefer everything to be plain text, unless you are getting into creating images or artwork etc. Another reason to store your questions separately safely is that sometimes I feed the exact question into each of the 5 and compare the results. Quite interesting to say the least…I have a few examples of these as well.
ChatGPT with CoPilot.
1. Install Microsoft BING on your phone
2. Launch BING search and at the bottom you will see the purple blue yellow double ribbon icon that is Copilot.
3. Click the Copilot icon and that is it, you can start a dialogue. You can enter a question, and the reply will be generated.
The laptop version works differently in that your questions and answers are not saved in separate transactions like they are on your phone. I don’t know how long they are retained, so when I have something I want to refer to in future, I click my question, select all, copy, then paste it in an email, then come back and click the answer, select all, copy, then paste this to the email and send it to myself. All very awkward and BETA like.
They add “Sent By You” in your question, which has the text going vertically for some reason, so when you paste it to a document, it makes a horrible unreadable mess. (Same with GROK 3, a lot of ugly graphics inserted, getting better now)
Grok 4
You can get this from app store and run on your phone. But to copy and send it to yourself you must do your question and answer separately to an email, two steps…
Since I have X premium I go in to X then launch Grok from there and copy paste question and answer in one shot.
Saving my work since day one: when it first came out in Nov 2024: This version works better for me because after I submit my question and get a reply, I cursor to my question, do a copy, select all gets everything, then copy CTRL C and then I send an email to myself and paste it there and send. In the subject line at the end I put “grok” so then I use Google lables and filters to keep these in a single place. So I can go to my email, use the three bar menu, drop down to “Emails From Me…grok” and get a subset of all my Gmail in date sequence.
more to come…
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