Due to Microsoft integrating Copilot into Home windows, we’re all aware of AI chatbots, like ChatGPT. Copilot is without doubt one of the extra fully-featured chatbots on the market, even for those who keep on its free tier. You need to use Copilot to look the online utilizing voice, textual content and pictures, you may generate AI pictures utilizing DALL-E 3, use plug-ins and even entry GPT 4-Turbo at non-peak instances. If you need extra, together with precedence entry to GPT-4 Turbo and integration of Copilot with the complete Microsoft Workplace suite, then you will get it for $20 (£19, AU$33) a month.
The catch is that you simply solely get full Copilot integration with Home windows 11 and chosen PCs operating on Home windows 10, which at present have Copilot with “restricted capabilities” in a Preview mode.
You possibly can all the time use Copilot in a browser after all, however it’s nowhere close to nearly as good because the totally built-in Home windows expertise. Properly, it simply so occurs that there’s one other answer to built-in AI accessible to Home windows customers within the type of Ashampoo AI Assistant.
For $11 (£8, AU$15) a month, Ashampoo offers you entry to AI in an app inside Home windows. It really works in Home windows 10 (64-bit solely) and Home windows 11, and has some cool options that distinguish it from Copilot (like keyboard shortcuts and macros). The app solely offers with textual content, and does it in 4 predominant areas: translation and bettering, producing, analyzing and summarizing, and interactive chat.
Translate and enhance
In a nutshell, AI Assistant can do all of the issues Copilot can with textual content, however it’s been set as much as be extra environment friendly at producing particular varieties of textual content (Fb posts, textual content for web site creation, and so forth.) due to templates and menus that information you thru the method.
It will not hit utilization limits on the GPT-4o (the big language mannequin or LLM that many chatbots are based mostly on), has quicker response instances, and retains your knowledge out of OpenAI’s arms for coaching. With ChatGPT, you could open an OpenAI account to make use of its LLM, whereas AI Assistant doesn’t want you to try this. It additionally has keyboard shortcuts to assist pace up operations, and you’ll create macros to make it much more environment friendly.
AI Assistant can prolong, enhance, shorten, proofread, paraphrase and generate textual content. It will possibly translate it into most languages, utilizing totally different tones, too, like humorous or skilled. I requested a Russian speaker to test the standard of its translations into Russian, and so they appeared happy with the outcomes.
I used AI Help to generate a Fb and Twitter (the app doesn’t name it X) submit for a weblog I’d written and it did a ok job that I may simply lower and paste the textual content, full with emojis, immediately into my social media submit.
Altering the tone of the submit and regenerating it to see the variations was actually useful. In the event you wanted to generate a number of social media posts a day, then AI Assistant would make your life considerably simpler.
Caught up to now
The ‘Interactive’ part of the app is the place you may chat to AI Assistant prefer it’s a chatbot. I needed to check its information on one thing that occurred very not too long ago, so I requested it to “inform me concerning the newest Apple iOS beta”. It informed me that iOS 17 was the most recent beta and it was filled with cool options and described just a few, which is odd, because the newest iOS beta is model 18…
Confused, I requested about one thing a bit extra normal. “Who’s the British Prime Minister?” It replied with Rishi Sunak. (In the event you’re questioning, I’m penning this 25 days after Sir Keir Starmer took over because the British Prime Minister.)
That’s once I realized that AI Assistant was residing up to now. Ask Copilot or ChatGPT this stuff and it is aware of the correct solutions. It turned out that AI Assistant was final up to date in October 2023, and it seems prefer it doesn’t have internet search capabilities.
However what about one thing just a little extra historic? No downside. “Inform me concerning the Stoics”, for instance, will get the type of response you’d anticipate – an honest description of Stoicism, the traditional Greek philosophy. Ask it to jot down a program in Python that helps introduce Stoic rules into your life and it spits out the code with out a downside. Ask it to jot down you a poem about Stoicism, and also you get one.
Lastly, there are the picture creation points… or lack thereof. AI Assistant merely doesn’t have any. Copilot has DALL-E 3 integration, so it will probably generate a restricted variety of AI pictures a day out of your prompts.
So, briefly, Ashampoo AI Assistant fills a gap for anyone who must generate a whole lot of textual content every day. Its interface is rather more tailor-made to producing content material for you rapidly than utilizing a free chatbot, however whereas AI Assistant clearly is able to doing all the foremost duties that ChatGPT or Copilot can, its information of present occasions is severely restricted compared.
There are particular benefits to AI Assistant that justify the $11 month-to-month subscription, notably for heavy customers of AI who exceed their limits on free platforms, however for informal customers, the free chatbots, or Copilot, will fulfill your wants.
