Ever since its launch, ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. The chatbot’s popularity has spawned a lot of offshoots and knockoffs designed to cater to specific niches. Those looking for options beyond ChatGPT can come across a lot of clutter that is entirely meaningless to their tasks. To make your search easier, here is our list of the 12 best ChatGPT alternatives in 2023.
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Google Bard
Soon after OpenAI came out with ChatGPT, Google launched their own AI Chatbot called Bard. Google Bard was initially based on the LaMDA family of language models and then later moved to PaLM. Currently, Bard operates on the PaLM 2 large language model. Launched in a limited capacity back in March 2023, the launch of Google’s AI chatbot was ramped up due to the instant success of ChatGPT. Over the months, Bard was fleshed out and made available to the wider public. Even though the initial public response to Bard wasn’t as favourable as ChatGPT, it has evolved to be a powerful AI tool. Google has also started integrating Bard into its range of products and services. It’ll be interesting to see how it pans out in the future.
Microsoft Bing AI
Microsoft’s Bing AI is based on GPT-4, which shouldn’t be surprising as the tech giant was one of the early investors in OpenAI. If you’re more interested in the practical uses of an AI chatbot, Bing AI should be more up your alley. Instead of getting the chatbot to compose a work email, you can simply type a draft using the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard and use the integrated Bing AI tool to change it to a more ‘professional’ tone. While using the chatbot on Microsoft Edge, you can choose the responses to be creative, balanced, or precise.
Jasper Chat
Jasper finesses the art of writing impeccable copies, blog posts, and articles. The chatbot utilises GTP 3.5 to create interesting content that adheres to your writing style and brand identity. One of the best attributes of Jasper is that it takes a conversational approach to content creation. You don’t need to enter precise prompts to receive desirable results. Instead, you can converse with the chatbot in natural language and provide it with the necessary feedback.
Socratic
Socratic is an educational app to help students with their homework. Owned by Google, Socratic uses Bard to resolve queries asked by students related to their homework. The app’s AI tool can recognise mathematical equations and offer easy solutions to problems while also explaining the core concepts behind them in a neat and concise manner. Students can also ask text-based queries related to any subject and receive illustrative and comprehensive answers.
Elicit
This one is for all the academics and scholars who need to go through a mountain of literature for their research papers. Described as ‘Jstor on steroids’, Elicit provides you with a comprehensive list of papers that are relevant to your research topic and briefly summarises their abstracts, making it easier for you to go through the results and sort out the meaningful entries. You can also get Elicit to look for more relevant papers based on your selected results and extract the important parts from each document. Need more? Elicit can also find common themes among the selected papers, helping you cut down on some serious research time.
Chatsonic
Chatsonic was one of the first chatbots to take Google results after 2021 into account while formulating its answers to user queries. This GPT-4 chatbot is designed to create thought-provoking copies for marketing, gather data & analyse literature for research, and generate concise and relevant replies for customer support, among other practical tasks. A monthly subscription to Chatsonic costs $16, making it one of the most affordable AI chatbots out there. Chatsonic is also capable of generating AI images based on your prompts.
Claude 2
Anthropic’s Claude 2 is one of the best alternatives to ChatGPT out there right now. Claude is a fun, conversational chatbot that you can use to resolve a query, proofread your article, trim down excessive or redundant content, or even brainstorm new ideas for your new project. The AI chatbot gets used to your writing style over a period of time and generates better content that suits your brand and identity.
Copy.ai
As the name suggests, Copy.ai helps you compose content briefs, ad copies, long-form articles, social media posts, product descriptions, and more. This AI tool specialises in creating content that is SEO-friendly and devoid of any fluff or redundancies. Users can tune the draft with precise prompts until it looks closer to a finished product. When used properly, Copy.ai can create compelling articles in a fraction of the time. Certainly one of the best ChatGPT alternatives around!
YouChat
YouChat is a brilliant query-resolving conversational AI chatbot based on GPT-4. With this AI chatbot, you don’t need to worry about incorporating the right keywords in your questions to get accurate answers. No matter how complex or convoluted your question is, YouChat comes up with a direct answer that addresses the heart of the problem. YouChat works best with You.com as your default search engine. You can also ask the chatbot to carry out tasks like summarising articles, composing blog posts, and more.
Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI is a free-to-use AI chatbot that has one very important feature – it cites all its sources. While there may still be some factual and contextual inconsistencies in its responses, you can always look up the sources that Perplexity has used to come up with the result. It also offers a ‘Copilot’ mode for more comprehensive answers. You can access your past conversations with the chatbot and even find interesting answers that other users have received on the ‘Discover’ tab. As of now, Perplexity AI is one of the best free alternatives to ChatGPT.
Character.ai
Character.ai puts a fun little twist on the whole conversational experience by letting you create AI ‘personas’. You can hold a conversation with these personas and their responses will remain true to their character. Some of the preset personas on the website include SM64 Mario, Raiden Shogun and Ei from Genshin Impact, and even Elon Musk! You can use this chatbot to simulate an interview or an upcoming viva. There is a bunch of other fun stuff you can try out on the Character.ai website!
Replika
If you want to check out something mildly dystopian and straight out of a Hollywood movie, head over to Replika. Replika is an AI companion that generates scripted dialogue that feels personal, similar to your interactions with real people. With Oculus support, you can even converse with Replika in Augmented Reality. The quality of responses generated by Replika improves over a period of time, the more you interact with it.
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Conclusion
These are the 12 best alternatives to ChatGPT in 2023. Our picks cover a diverse range of tools, be it for content generation, research, problem-solving, or simply conversational purposes. Think there’s a chatbot that deserves to be on this list? Let us know in the comments!
