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Bob in Denver, Colorado asked: "I'm listening to and watching all the information on Ai. I want to buy a new computer. Do I wait for a computer with Ai built into it or do I just go to the different apps and get the Ai from the app store? Also, Ai is changing so fast. Is there a vendor that has the best Ai product for personal use?"
Bob, it depends on what you need, really.
If youre looking for a general use assistant then waiting and buying a computer with an assistant built in may be a good idea, but you may not need it if just asking questions to an online assistant or app is good enough to fit your needs.
A purpose built computer will likely have the processing power to do some things locally, but its all very dependent on what youre looking to have Ai do for you.
In terms of vendors, the market is splintered.
For chat assistants ChatGPT seems to be ahead still but their models run on datasets that are not updated as often as Google, but if youre looking at coding then CoPilot will likely serve you better, and if youre looking at image generation Midjourney gets very impressive results. There are all summarizer bots from different companies that transcribe and summarize conversations, there are bots are specializing in math, or examining images and providing descriptions, etc.
The best vendor is really just the one that is better at what you need assistance with, theres really not an overall do-it-all champion.
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