Is ChatGPT king? How top free AI chatbots fared during field testing

cointelegraph.com:

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT was the first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot to captivate the world after its public release in November 2022, a variety of competitors have entered the marketplace since then.

Tech giants Google and Microsoft have launched their AI chatbots, with Google’s Bard removing its waitlist, and opening up to over 180 countries and territories on May 10, after Microsoft beat it to the punch and fully released its AI-powered Bing search engine on May 4.

With several chatbots to choose from, Cointelegraph decided to put some of the most well-known through their paces to see which held up best during field testing, as well as comparing some of their features.

To test the chatbots, they were each asked a series of questions, riddles and more complex prompts to determine their accuracy and speed of responses.

Many AI chatbots available today are powered by OpenAI’s GPT models. While these AI chatbots may give similar results to ChatGPT, the app developers can also add additional commands, which may change the results.

While OpenAI has already released ChatGPT-4, which is available to Plus plan users for $20 per month, ChatGPT-3.5 is free to use and is tested here.

ChatGPT-4 significantly outperforms its predecessor with faster response speeds, more accurate responses and less server downtime.

The first AI chatbot to take the world by storm can help with tasks like essay writing, code debugging and even personal finances after only a second or so of processing time.

However, one area where ChatGPT underperforms is its lack of ability to search the internet.

This means the model is only as good as the training data fed into it, which goes up until September 2021. OpenAI is rolling out plugins that allow