ChatGPT Busy? 7 AI Chatbot Alternatives Ready to Answer Your Burning Questions

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It seems like everyone wants to talk to artificial intelligence these days. When you try to log into ChatGPT, you often get a message that it’s at capacity. You could keep refreshing until you're in (or pay $20 per month for ChatGPT Plus), but ChatGPT isn't the only bot in town: There are numerous other AIs to converse with online. 

Tech companies have cashed in their bitcoins and are betting everything on AI right now. Those include familiar Big Tech names such as Google and Microsoft, as well as others that are mainly AI-focused, including Jasper and Zeno. 

We’ve rounded up the ones you can use right now, some for free and some for a fee, along with basic info on how they work and what you can expect. One thing to keep in mind: All of these technologies caution against taking the confident-sounding content their AI chatbots provide as fact. They make mistakes, which is becoming all the more evident as various chatbots provide misinformation about one other(Opens in a new window) and even themselves. For instance:

That is pretty clearly not accurate. So whichever services you try, exercise caution about the advice they give, and where and how you use the content that might result. 

Google Bard's is a conversational AI service that can be used by the public. 

You need a personal Google account (versus an enterprise account you use for work). You also need to be 18, which Google said it will try to suss out from what it knows about you (aka everything). Then you can join the waitlist via bard.google.com(Opens in a new window). Google appears to be granting access pretty quickly, usually in a day or two.

The basis of Bard is Google’s own LaMDA(Opens in a new window), a language model that has been trained on a data set