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The 27 best football games of all time

By admin April 7, 2024

The 27 best football games of all time, It’s a sad fact that most of us won’t ever be any good at football. But whether on console or PC, the best games can take you into a fantasy world in which you’re a world beater.

Amazingly, that applies whether you’re controlling a stick figure on an 8-bit computer or a fully realised 3D model with ultra-realistic stubble on a PS5. Seriously – we’ve shed real tears at a line of text on a screen describing how the opposition stick figure has just put us out of the cup.

But then that’s football: it has the power to reduce otherwise sensible people to mere shells of their former selves. And game makers soon realised they were on to something good when they created the first footie sims, because in no time they were flying off the shelf.

The 27 best football games of all time

As a result, there have been hundreds of football games over the years – so many, in fact, that narrowing down our selection to a mere 28 titles was near impossible. Arguments raged across the office – FIFA or Pro Evo? Sensi or Kick Off? – and that’s exactly as it should be. After nearly 30 years, EA and FIFA have now officially cut ties so will EA Sports FC be gracing this list in the future?

Whether you agree or disagree with our list, we hope it’ll spark plenty of memories. Let the arguments begin.

27) Footballer of the Year (1986, ZX Spectrum)

People weren’t sure what to make of this oddball at the time of release. Part management game, part board game, you aimed to take a kid from the old fourth division to the glory of cup finals and Division One.

Success was mostly down to scoring goals in arcade sequences; chances were bought with ‘goal cards’ purchased in-game, and ‘incident cards’ enabled you to delve further into your young player’s life. If this all sounds a bit familiar, FOTY was a big influence on New Star Soccer creator Simon Read…

26) Tracksuit Manager (1988, C64)

We’re not sure how you manage a tracksuit; stupid name aside, this Goliath Games effort was an impressive management game with depth. You arrived just as your team (England by default) had a disastrous World Cup (so, pretty accurate), and had to figure out a road to success.

Highlights were akin to the running commentary you’d today see on a news website, and while that lacked visual impact, it provided plenty of insight into who was providing the goods for your team, and who to send for an early bath.

25) International Soccer (1983, C64)

This C64 classic was the first truly great soccer game. Inspired by the earlier Intellivision Soccer, it utilised a side-on viewpoint, and had two seven-a-side teams battling it out for a chunky, pixelated cup.

Despite creator Andrew Spencer not being a fan of football, he captured the feel of the sport, and squeezed throw-ins, corners and goal-kicks into the cartridge’s tiny memory. It’s also the one football game where you can sometimes head a ball half the length of the field – a bug Spencer noticed but left in because he thought it was funny.

24) Match Day 2 (1987, ZX Spectrum)

Knowing a good thing when they saw it, Jon Ritman and Ocean teamed up for a sequel to Ritman’s original Spectrum smash hit. This time, the players looked a lot like bodybuilders, and the underlying mechanics had been suitably beefed up: along with a far superior deflection system, there was a league format, volleys, flicks and jumping.

Shot strength was determined by a slightly awkward oscillating ‘kickometer’ and the pace was again slow, but this merely made for more strategic play.

23) Behold the Kickmen (2017, Nintendo Switch/PC)

Look, we adore the beautiful game, but sometimes it feels like the sport takes itself a little bit too seriously. Watching a gaggle of shouty adults boot a ball around a field for 90 minutes is hugely entertaining, but it’s also not that important in the grand scheme of things. Behold the Kickmen is here to remind you of that.

This is football as seen through the eyes of someone with absolutely zero interest in the laws and rules of the sport (or physics, for that matter). Kicking, tackling, passing, shooting, and scoring – it’s all here but dialled up to 11 in the most nonsensical way imaginable. In striving to make a complete mockery of football, developer Size Five Games has created one of the most comical and outrageous takes on the sport we’ve ever encountered.

22) Actua Soccer (1995, PS1)

Its name and tagline may have been a shot across Sega’s bows (“There’s nothing virtual about Actua“), but Gremlin Interactive’s title was noteworthy for more than just a bit of snide trollery: it was the very first console football game to offer fully 3D players. These were motion-capped from Sheffield Wednesday stalwarts Chris Woods, Andy Sinton and Graham Hyde, providing a level of clogger realism never before witnessed on consoles. The original featured only national teams, but a Club Edition featuring all 20 teams from the 96/97 Premier League season was released a year later.

21) Ultimate Soccer Manager (1995, Amiga)

For all of Championship Manager‘s statistical goodness, nothing immersed you in a mid-’90s football world like the USM series. Transfers and team selection almost became minor distractions, as you reclined in your office next to a fax machine and Teletext.

There were advertising deals to negotiate, a stadium complex to build, and even bungs to offer the opposition. Yes, this was the George Graham era, when managers were unimpeachable emperors, and USM put you right on the throne with a hotline to football’s dark side.

20) Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 (2016, PS4/Xbox One)

Having spent years in FIFA’s shadow, Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 finally offered a genuine alternative to EA’s annual juggernaut. PES 2017 was a slower, more considered version of the beautiful game, with less emphasis on beating players for pace and more on patient build-up play, but when everything fell into place and you unlocked a defence the sense of satisfaction was glorious. Its lack of official licenses and a fundamentally flawed online mode still made it very hard to convince most FIFA fans to jump ship, and things seem to have gone backwards since then, but for one short year PES‘s glory days were back.

19) Kick Off (1989, Amiga)

Dino Dini’s 16-bit classic added an ingredient that hadn’t really been seen before in football games: speed. The little players darted about the pitch like they were dosed-up on something decidedly not allowed under FIFA’s code, and the ball was initially impossible to control, given that it didn’t remain glued to your feet.

But once mastered, Kick Off made every other football game suddenly seem dull and dated by comparison, even if it was at times the football game equivalent of juggling bars of soap while riding a unicycle down a hill.

18) World Cup 98 (1997, PS1)

EA’s FIFA series has ruled the football gaming world like some kind of digital Sepp Blatter (before all the dodgy payments stuff), but it wasn’t always thus. Back in 1998 it was merely one of several games vying for the hearts and minds of floppy fringed teens, and it was far from being the best.

The previous edition, 1997’s Road To World Cup 98, had marked a big improvement though – while FIFA had always had the official licences, it finally had the gameplay to go with them too. World Cup 98 built on that in some style, keeping the free-flowing football of the previous title and adding in-game tactical changes.

It was all wrapped up in a slick World Cup skin that no other game at the time came close to, complete with commentary and unlockable classic games. Shame we had to put up with Chumbawamba’s execrable Tubthumping every time it loaded though.

17) Football Manager (1982, ZX Spectrum)

Kevin Toms graced the front of Addictive’s Football Manager cover, enticing you to buy the game with his charm and beard. And what a game it was: on your little Spectrum, you could buy and sell players, pick a team, and watch highlights on pitches with comically large goals.

Today, it all looks a bit primitive (the C64 conversion was at least a bit prettier), and yet its simple gameplay remains surprisingly compelling in an era of over-complicated (micro) management sims. If you fancy a go on your smartphone, check out Toms’s remakes for Android and iOS.

16) Tehkan World Cup (1985, arcade)

Tehkan World Cup wasn’t the first overhead football game (that accolade probably goes to Exciting Soccer), but it was the first to make that viewpoint work. This was a fast game, in part down to the trackball controls, and decent goalies also ensured that matches were often frantic end-to-end battles.

The game very heavily influenced Sensible Software, and more or less came to the C64 in the form of Microprose Soccer, but its legacy was really being the grandfather to the outstanding Sensible Soccer series.

15) New Star Soccer (2012, iOS/Android)

In answering the question “How do you create an in-depth career-long football game for mobile devices?”, New Star Soccer said “You don’t!”, and instead served up a selection of mini-games draped over a basic framework that wasn’t a million miles from 1986’s Footballer Of The Year.

Although a touch IAP-hungry, it became a mobile classic, having you balance a kind of hyper-real version of a young footballer’s life (Buy a car! And now a TANK!) with pitch-based exploits and the demands of a boss, advertisers and a nagging partner.

Its successor, New Star Manager, is more in-depth, but lacks the addictive simplicity of the original.

14) FIFA 10 (2009, PS3/Xbox 360)

Like a footballing version of Rocky Balboa vs Apollo Creed, the FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer games slugged it out relentlessly throughout the ’00s without either landing a final knockout punch. Pro Evo was generally the better game, but FIFA retained a strong following by virtue of its proper team and player names and presentation nous. But with FIFA 10 that winning uppercut finally connected.

Both games introduced 360-degree player control for the first time in their 2010 editions, but FIFA 10 did it better, allowing you to expertly slide a pass through at just the right angle for your striker to run on to it. Or, more commonly, for you to expertly slide a pass straight to an opposition defender. Coupled with a wealth of game modes – from Be A Pro to Ultimate Team and Manager Mode – FIFA 10 was a more complete footballing experience than any previous title in the series and finally edged ahead of its rival too. And it hasn’t been toppled since.

13) Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (1988, C64)

A spiritual successor to Andrew Spencer’s International Soccer, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer was the last great side-on football game of the 1980s. Brimming with options, advanced players could utilise techniques such as ‘5-direction’ passing, sliding tackles and backheels, all from a joystick with only a single fire button.

The result was the first truly fluid football game, where you could string together some genuinely breathtaking moves. The goalies were still rubbish, though, natch.

12) Retro Goal (2021, Android/iOS)

Retro Goal is by the New Star Soccer folks, and has some similarities, in being a fusion of management and action. However, rather than veering towards management, much more of this game is played out on the pitch. Instead of full games, you play out highlights, using gestural controls (with the aid of Matrix-style slo-mo) to bury the ball in the back of the net.

We’ve seen grumbles that the game is pay-to-win, but we’ve won everything you can win in the game, without doing a Manchester City. You just need some patience, and to power up couple of strikers so they’ve got enough welly. If you’re not sure, you get ten games for free, whereaand even unlocking the entire game costs a pittance.

Retro Goal is a beautiful throwback to the SEGA days of football games and features such star names as Garrido, Hough and Frezza (not actual players, of course). The convenience of being handheld makes it all the better, too. The first 10 matches of Retro Goal can be played for free. Unlocking the rest costs a quid. Barg.

11) FIFA Street (2005, PS2)

There’s something beautifully nostalgic about FIFA Street. For those who played the 4-a-side street football game in 2005, the game conjures up memories of committing devastating flicks and tricks in favelas and English football pitches. It also came with a soundtrack that has seldom been beaten since, bringing the local sounds of soca, grime, jungle and more to global players.

FIFA Street’s newest form, VOLTA, hasn’t managed to live up to the heights of FIFA Street (that is a tough task to achieve, though). But even playing today, FIFA Street still impresses. Few things beat the feeling of nutmegging Ronaldinho before firing a screamer into the top bins, after all.

10) Virtua Striker (1994, Arcade)

Sega’s legendary AM2 team (also responsible for Daytona USA and Virtua Fighter) developed this groundbreaking title – the first football video game in history to use 3D player models. Being available only in arcades, Virtua Striker was designed for fast and furious action over serious simulation, but for those of us who crammed countless coins into the cabinet, it was the most realistic digital appropriation of the beautiful game we’d ever seen.

9) International Superstar Soccer (1994, SNES)

In hindsight, this SNES classic is a bridge between classic-era side-on fare and modern football titles. A predecessor to PES, the original ISS offered a stunning array of moves – everything from feints to shoulder charges – when various buttons were combined.

Visually, it was also leagues beyond the likes of Match Day and International Soccer. Yet for all its gloss and cleverness, what made ISS appeal most was its fun and frantic nature, retaining a very arcade sensibility, in that brief period before sports titles became totally obsessed with a kind of TV-style realism.

8) Football Manager 2011 (2010, PC)

In its divorce with Eidos, Sports Interactive lost the Championship Manager name but carried on creating the only management games still worth playing – and this edition is one of the greatest, adding a full 3D engine that, if you were so inclined, allowed you to watch every single pass, shot, tackle and horrendous goalkeeping error in a match.

Among the other innovations were press conferences – a small detail that served to add colour to an already frighteningly real football universe that featured no fewer than 117 playable leagues.

7) Kick Off 2 (1990, Amiga)

Kick Off 2 looked an awful lot like its predecessor, and it was really a combination of Kick Off and a couple of expansion disks, all carefully refined. But that attention to detail transformed an enjoyable but occasionally uncontrollable knockabout title into a product that demanded a lot more skill.

Along with tournaments, refs with varying moods and – crucially – fewer bugs, this Amiga sequel dropped the pace and boosted the controls, copious use of ‘aftertouch’ enabling you to fashion the kind of dazzlingly audacious shots of which even Matt Le Tissier would have been proud.

6) Sensible Soccer (1992, Amiga)

Sensible Software were fans of Kick Off 2 and football, but were irritated by the former’s shortcomings that didn’t – as they saw it – do justice to the latter. Sensible Soccer was their attempt to bring to gaming the feeling of how you imagined playing professional football would be, coupled with the kind of attention to detail only a true football geek possesses (including correct hair and skin colour for each of the players).

The game zoomed the viewpoint out, showing more of the pitch and enabling it to dispense with a Kick Off-style radar; passing and shooting was simplified and streamlined and everything was done on the frame, making the game extremely responsive. Until sequel SWOS arrived, this was the pinnacle of the genre.

5) ISS Pro Evolution (1999, PS1)

Ah, the Master League: just how many hours have we spent cocooned in your comforting embrace, steadily building up a team of honest pros and turning them into world beaters? Probably several thousand – and that’s no exaggeration. And it was here that it first appeared.

Although at this stage a relatively basic affair, the Pro Evo Master League still bolted a decent career sim on to an already superb football game. You could buy and sell players, but you used points earnt by winning games, rather than money, and there was none of the complicated day-to-day running of the club that you’d have to endure in Championship Manager. Instead, it gave you the chance to shape the team of your dreams, packing it with attacking midfielders if you chose, or instead making sure you had a Mourinho-solid defence.

While the Master League was a great addition to the series, it would have meant nothing if the gameplay hadn’t matched up to it. But in truth ISS Pro Evolution was already creeping ahead of FIFA by this time; it was more realistic yet also more playable – and that’s a winning combination in any game.

4) Championship Manager: Season 97/98 (1997, PC)

Sports Interactive’s series looms like a Colossus over all management games.

Despite being derided by small-minded dullards as a glorified Excel spreadsheet, Championship Manager‘s masterful tactical engine, reams of accurate data (this was the first instalment allowing you to run more than one league simultaneously) and giant player database wove together a rich, convincing football universe that sat parallel to our own – and it fired the imagination like no other game around.

And it was so, so addictive: the game’s official forums were full of tales of lives all but lost to Champ’s particular brand of “just one more game”-itis, or grown men so proud of taking a lower league team to the FA Cup final that they would don a suit for the occasion.

3) FIFA 21 (2020, PS4/Xbox One)

Recent FIFA games have been all about tweaking a winning formula rather than any major overhauls, but considering the series has been building from a leading position since FIFA 10, that’s no bad thing.

While FIFA 21 only makes very minor changes to its predecessor and certainly isn’t without its faults – defending is very much a secondary concern to scoring goals, there’s far too much showboating online, and goalkeepers punch so often they must all be wearing buttered gloves – it remains the best virtual approximation of the beautiful game.

2) Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (2005, PS2)

There are times in popular culture when a thing – band, TV series, game, whatever – reaches such a peak, you think it can’t possibly stay there. But then it does – for year after year after year. The Simpsons did that from about season 3 to season 9, for instance, but it’s pretty rare. Well, Pro Evolution Soccer managed the same feat.

That its standards did eventually drop was inevitable, but it doesn’t make the glory years from 2002-2005 any less special. We could have picked any of the four games from Pro Evo 2 to Pro Evo 5 and made a case for its inclusion. Frankly, we could have had all of them in this list. But that would be silly, so instead we’ve picked the probable highest point in a series of very high ones.

What made it so special? Just… everything. The Master League had by now developed into a proper four-division set-up, with promotion, relegation and a Champions League equivalent and there were even, finally, proper player names. On the gameplay side, it was as fluid and playable as football games get. Not quite as frantically insane as Sensible Soccer, not quite as gloriously detailed as FIFA 18, but instead a wonderful mid-way between the two extremes.

You could score screamers from 40 yards or tap-ins after a goalmouth scramble. You could waltz through five tackles, if you had a skillful enough player, but you couldn’t get away with just running the ball into the net. In short, it was beautifully balanced.

It couldn’t last, of course – but boy was it fun while it did.

1) Sensible World Of Soccer (1994, Amiga)

Almost 30 years young, SWOS is still top of the league. It took everything that was great about Sensible Soccer and just ran with it. You got the same fantastic arcade-oriented gameplay, but the title comprehensively acknowledged the rest of the world’s existence, with the kind of slavish devotion of a true footballing aficionado.

Management features and player trading were boosted by the inclusion of a whopping 1500 teams and 27,000 players. It should have been the start of something great, but SWOS was somehow allowed to be eclipsed by FIFA and PES. Still, dedicated fans keep the flame alive with leagues, events, and patched versions of the game that incorporate modern data – the wonderful, crazy nutters.

Can it compete with FIFA for realistic gameplay or Football Manager for exhaustive statdom? No, obviously not. And for many people, the classic mid-’00s era Pro Evo beats it as an all-round football game; it’s definitely split this office at any rate.

But for sheer “JUST LOOK AT THAT GOAL! THAT WAS LIQUID FOOTBALL!” joy, it will never be bettered. Go on, then, just one more game.

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12 Best ChatGPT Alternatives in 2024

By admin March 1, 2024

12 Best ChatGPT Alternatives in 2024, You must have seen how explodingly popular ChatGPT has become on the internet. The chatbot is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 language models, allowing users to converse with the AI. And the fact that ChatGPT can now see images and even speak makes it all the better. But that also brought a big downside with ChatGPT’s servers being overloaded with users. This has locked users out of using the handy bot when needed. So, if you are one of the folks who find ChatGPT frequently down, you can follow our list of the best ChatGPT alternatives in 2024.

1. Google Gemini (Formerly Bard)

Ever since ChatGPT went viral, many users had their eye on Google. And now Google finally has a family of worthy AI models called Gemini that can compete with ChatGPT’s best models. Gemini, which was earlier known as Bard, is powered by the Gemini 1.0 Pro model.

And if you want to experience the most capable Gemini 1.0 Ultra model, you can subscribe to Gemini Advanced (similar to ChatGPT Plus). Currently, Google is offering two months of free trial along with Google One benefits.

We compared Gemini Ultra with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and concluded that Gemini Ultra is very good at creative writing and a great tool for researching due to Google Search integration. It’s overall a great model, however, in commonsense reasoning, it falls behind GPT-4.

That said, the free version of Gemini is plenty powerful and in some cases, it does a better job than the free version of ChatGPT (powered by the GPT-3.5 model). It also supports image analysis which the ChatGPT doesn’t offer under the free tier.

You also get extension support in Gemini that allows you to integrate your Gmail, Drive, Google Docs, etc. with Gemini and get personalized responses. Best of all, with the YouTube integration, you can ask questions on any YouTube video.

And similar to the GPT-4 model, both Gemini Pro and Gemini Ultra are multimodal models. However, the multimodal capability has not been turned on yet. Google will be adding the multimodal feature to both the free version of Gemini and Gemini Advanced in the coming days.

Not to mention, you can now generate images in Gemini, and run Python code in the Gemini interface, but it’s only available to Gemini Advanced users. And the upcoming Gemini 1.5 Pro model is even more powerful and is built on a sparse MoE architecture, just like GPT-4. It has a context length of 1 million tokens which is remarkable. So you can definitely use Gemini as a solid alternative to ChatGPT and it’s only getting better.

Key Features: Upload images, Chat history, Powered by the latest Gemini Pro and Gemini Ultra models, Export to Docs, Colab, Powerful coding and reasoning capability, Multilingual model, Python interpreter.

Check Out Gemini (Gemini Advanced starts at $20 per month, Offers a free trial of 2 months with Google One benefits)

12 Best ChatGPT Alternatives in 2024

2. Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is one of the heaviest competitors to ChatGPT. It is also the one model that has gone through numerous changes, and rebrands. The AI bot is powered by an upgraded model of ChatGPT, which the company initially called the new “Prometheus model” but was later confirmed to be GPT-4.

So Copilot is the only service out there that offers free access to the GPT-4 model. And now the company has announced Copilot Pro which costs $20 per month but brings priority access to GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4, and upcoming models from OpenAI. It also lets you use Copilot features in Office apps. Bear in mind, free Copilot users will only get responses from the GPT-4 model during non-peak hours.

Other than that, Copilot is full to the brim with all the handy AI features that make it an excellent ChatGPT alternative. For starters, the Chat mode is the heart that pulls in web queries and lets users have full-scale conversations based on them. Users can tune the bot according to their needs to have it respond appropriately.

The AI bot cum search engine has also added support for a ton of functionalities, including widgets, chat history, and even multimodal capability to help it read images.

Furthermore, you also get increased accuracy and the Bing Image Creator. Copilot even allows users to plan trips, get recipes, seek out advice, and a lot more, just like ChatGPT. Finally, you also get a handful of plugins on Copilot.

Key Features: Powered by GPT-4, Supports visual input and output, Connects to the internet, Multimodal, Gets the latest information on any subject, Chat history, Different chat modes, and Cites sources.

Try Microsoft Copilot (Copilot Pro starts at $20 per month)

3. Mistral Chat

In case you are not following news, Microsoft recently invested close to $16 million investment in a young French AI startup called Mistral AI, overshadowing its close partner, OpenAI. Mistral AI has been gaining recognition in the open-source community for developing powerful AI models, closely competing against OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.

Its newly-announced Mistral Large model is one of the flagship AI models out there, scoring 81.2% in the MMLU test (GPT-4 scored 86.4%). According to the company, Mistral Large is very good at advanced reasoning, supports a context length of up to 32K tokens, has function calling support just like GPT-4, and natively fluent in various popular international languages.

In addition, the company released Mistral Chat (also known as Le Chat), powered by the Mistral Large model. So if you are looking for a solid alternative to ChatGPT without having to pay for GPT-4 access, Mistral Chat is an impressive option, powered by a GPT-4 class Mistral Large model. Users who want AI models fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, will enjoy Mistral Chat.

Key Features: Multilingual, Advanced reasoning capability, 32K tokens context length, Great at coding, Free to use, Powered by Mistral Large, Supports native function calling via API

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4. Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI is a ChatGPT alternative users have always loved because it combines a search engine experience with AI like Copilot. The bot has also been trained on OpenAI’s API and, as such, performs well with good responses. While the tool can converse with you, it even cites sources for its answer.

Besides searching the Internet, Perplexity can comb through various sources like Reddit, writing, YouTube, and more. Perplexity AI even has a handy co-pilot mode that uses the power of GPT-4 to dive deep into your questions and come up with the best answers. However, you only get five queries for GPT-4 which refreshes every four hours.

I had various conversations with the bot, both with and without the co-pilot, and it helped me out easily every time. It also doesn’t hurt that the responses are lightning-fast and error-free.

Perplexity even comes with a multimodal mode along with Claude 2. However, you will need to upgrade to Perplexity Pro to unlock that.

Key Features: Cites sources, Actionable results, Good for product recommendations, Features GPT-4 mode, Upload files

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5. Claude 2.1

ChatGPT has no shortage of rivals in the AI space. Enter Claude 2.1 which has a context length of 200K, an upgraded AI chatbot by the company Anthropic. The company has been backed by Google, making it an OpenAI competitor. Claude doesn’t use an LLM model in the traditional sense.

It instead uses a collection of what it calls “proprietary AI techniques” that include a neural network, training data, and more. This is focused more on natural conversation. This makes Claude a helpful, harmless, and honest bot for use.

While initially accessible only through Slack, Claude is now available in over 95 countries for free use. The AI chatbot by itself is capable of a lot. This ranges from simple conversations to writing complex codes, solving riddles, telling jokes, and more. Users can even upload compatible files and ask Claude to summarize them for ease of use. Furthermore, the best part is that the bot replies are lightning-fast and effortless.

However, do note that Claude 2 cannot access the Internet and is limited by its data. Claude also sometimes struggles with mathematical problems, so double-check your answer. Nonetheless, try it out and let us know what you think.

Key Features: 200k context window, Can load libraries of books, comparable to the GPT-4 model, Upload PDF files, Cheaper than GPT-4, Safe to use LLM

Try Claude 2 (Claude Pro starts at $20 per month)

6. GroqChat

Groq is an AI-first hardware company that has developed a specialized chip for AI inference called an LPU (Language Processing Unit). The company has taken the AI industry by storm by offering 10x better performance than Nvidia GPUs. To showcase its LPU’s prowess, the company has launched GroqChat where you can run open-source models and get results in a jiffy.

Currently, it hosts Mistral AI’s impressive open-source model, Mixtral 8x7B model and Meta AI’s Llama 2 70B model. Both models are great, but I prefer to use Mistral AI’s model as it’s much better at reasoning and complex tasks. If you don’t want to pay for ChatGPT Plus subscription and looking for a free alternative, GroqChat is a solid option. Not to mention, the lightning speed performance of GroqChat will blow your mind.

Key Features: Lightning fast output generation, Hosts open-source models including Mixtral 8x7B, Free to use

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7. Chatsonic

For many users, Chatsonic has proven to be one of the best ChatGPT alternatives, and for good reason. The bot has been built on top of ChatGPT and, hence, inherits its vast potential. While the chatbot only had a few features upon its launch, it is now supercharged with a lot of things that make it worth your while.

For starters, Chatsonic’s integrated Google search means it can quickly look up the Internet for you and provide you with the most detailed answer. This ensured I didn’t get incorrect details. The chatbot even cites sources for verification. There is also a built-in image generator when you quickly need a photo. While the images aren’t as good as Midjourney, they’re pretty decent with super fast output.

Chatsonic also comes with multiple personas, ranging from an accountant to a poet, in case you feel like conversing with different people. It even has a voice recording feature if you feel too lazy to type. While the Chatsonic is not free, you get 10,000 free words when you sign up. You can get more when you buy a paid plan.

Key Features: Offers GPT-4 model, Image creation, Voice command, Translation, Character-based chat, Internet access

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8. HuggingChat

One of the best open-source ChatGPT alternatives, HuggingChat is an AI chatbot created by HuggingFace, one of the premier websites hosting many AI services. This chatbot was previously based on the Meta AI (LLaMA) LLM but has since evolved where it lets you choose from a variety of language models.

This includes not just Llama 2 but also other LLMs like Mixtral-8x7B, OpenChat, Google’s recent open-source Gemma models, and more. To help sort this, HuggingChat has the option for multiple chats.

HuggingChat can do everything ChatGPT would. It can write interesting blog posts and jokes, curate HTML code for websites, give you recipes, and much more. There is also a handy toggle to enable web access.

This will allow the bot to gather information online to supplement its answer. However, the bot has network errors from time to time, which might hinder you. Nonetheless, try this ChatGPT alternative the next time the former goes down.

Key Features: Multiple model selection, Supports web access, Good for coding,

Try HuggingChat

9. Pi, your personal AI

Among all the other ChatGPT alternatives, Pi is possibly the only one that will provide you with a different experience altogether. Based on being a supportive and smart AI, Pi is a chatbot that follows a unique design. Instead of full-blown chats, conversations on Pi happen dialogue by dialogue. What makes it more interesting is that Pi is also one of the only assistants who talks back. The website has six different voices; each is eerily realistic and oddly comforting.

Pi starts the conversation itself and tries to glean in every message you send. Speaking something like how a therapist would, the ChatGPT alternative is quite inquisitive and tries to understand and respond in kind. One could almost start to forget this is an AI if not for the occasional errors.

So, while it can get tedious if you keep talking, Pi is one of the best ChatGPT alternatives if you want some mental relief. However, you need an account and a working phone number to sign up, which can be a downside for some. Nonetheless, check it out.

Key Features: Personal AI chatbot, Speaks like a therapist, Engaging and conversational

Try Pi, your personal AI

10. GitHub Copilot

Students are not the only ones who can benefit from tools like ChatGPT. Github Copilot is the company’s solution for programmers at their wit’s end. GitHub Copilot is based on the concept of auto-completion but goes much further than that. The tool helps programmers by suggesting and completing code and entire functions in real time. Consider GitHub Copilot as a tool to help with programmers’ block.

Github Copilot is on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model and has been trained on millions of lines of code. Copilot is compatible with all popular coding editor platforms, including VS Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains. This intuitive ChatGPT alternative can also generate syntax in various languages, including Javascript, PHP, and BASH.

GitHub has also introduced chat and voice for Copilot, which will give users a ChatGPT-like experience, and even GitHub Copilot Voice, where developers can verbally give natural language prompts. You can simply ask Copilot Chat for code improvements, and it will suggest them in real-time.

Besides writing code, GitHub Copilot can give users an in-depth analysis and explanations of code blocks through the power of GPT-4. It supports pull requests, answers questions on docs, and provides a personalized developer experience. While the service was available for limited users, it has now started to roll out more widely. GitHub Copilot is priced at $10 per month for individuals and $19 per user per month for businesses.

Key Features: Powered by GPT-4, Great coding model for developers, Supports numerous IDEs, Autocomplete code, Write test functions, Supports GitHub functionalities, Debug code

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11. OpenAI Playground

From the start, it is worth noting that OpenAI Playground is a tool not meant for daily users. However, if you find yourself locked out of ChatGPT and still want a taste of its capabilities, OpenAI Playground is the way to go. This web-based tool works like ChatGPT but provides much more advanced options, including selecting a specific language model to experiment with.

Once you have selected the model, you can tinker with other factors such as the model’s randomness, number of tokens, frequency penalty, stop sequences, and more. ChatGPT Plus users can even choose the latest GPT-4 LLM.

Since OpenAI Playground is simply a demo version of the ChatGPT service, its outputs are on par with ChatGPT and give a good feel of the actual service. You can try out some cool ChatGPT prompts mentioned in this article. This chatbot demo also supports speech-to-text inputs, and you can even upload an audio recording.

Unlike some AI bots, Playground doesn’t slow down and responds on the fly. It’s also free to use, provided you sign up for an account. However, be aware that you might lose access, just like ChatGPT, if the server is in high demand.

Key Features: Lots of model customizations, Access to various models, Upload audio recording, Free to use

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12. Poe

Introduced in early 2023, Poe by Quora is not an AI itself but more of a platform where you can talk to AI bots. Poe stands for ‘Platform for Open Exploration.’ True to its name, Quora Poe is a place where users can talk to and experiment with various AI chatbots.

Quora mentions that Poe lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with several AI-powered bots.

Poe’s website is neatly packaged and currently allows users to talk with AIs like Sage, ChatGPT, Dragonfly, and even GPT-4, Claude 2, Gemini Pro, Mistral-Medium, and more. All told, the platform allows access to over 20 different LLMs. However, access is limited for the last two, so you must get a subscription for the same. For those thinking that Poe is an AI chatbot that is going to use the question-answer data on Quora, you can rest easy as that’s not the case.

Quora Poe works extremely well and has little to no downtime while you talk away with the various AI bots. However, you do need to create an account to access it. Thankfully, you don’t need to create separate accounts for all services, so that’s the bright side. If you’re the sort who loves all these ChatGPT-like tools but can’t be bothered to open them all, Poe can be your one-stop platform for them.

Key Features: One-stop platform for various models, Supports GPT-4, Claude, and more, Easy to use, No downtime

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What are AI Chatbots?

For those unaware, AI chatbots are virtual programs and apps designed to simulate human conversation. To break it down even further, AI chatbots make users feel like they’re talking to another human instead of bots. Ever since the rise of ChatGPT, AI chatbots have vastly increased in quantity. Besides talking, AI chatbots can do a lot of other things, including writing essays, solving calculations, and more. As mentioned in the piece, a lot of ChatGPT alternatives here function as full-fledged AI chatbots. So you can go ahead and have conversations with these bots and have them respond in kind.

Is There Any Ultimate Alternative to ChatGPT?

While we have listed many ChatGPT alternatives above, we wouldn’t classify any of them as the ultimate solution. Depending on how you are as a user, one alternative might be more suitable for you than the other. So, whether it’s a ChatGPT alternative for coders, writers, or even people with simple search engine queries, there’s something for everyone.

Is There a Free Version of ChatGPT?

ChatGPT itself is free to use and experiment with by anyone. However, users who want to try out the new GPT-4 model must pay $20 monthly to access it. This will not only give them a better language model but no downtime. Check out how to get access to GPT-4 right now and get started.

What is ChatGPT’s Advanced Data Analysis?

Previously known as the Code Interpreter, the Advanced Data Analysis is a separate mode for the bot that enables users to upload any kind of code or data and have ChatGPT analyze it. So, if you’re a programmer with code to debug, you can use this mode provided you have the ChatGPT Plus subscription.

What Is Google’s Equivalent of ChatGPT?

Google has worked on several different language models in the past. The list includes models like BERT, MUM, and LaMDA. However, Google’s latest and most fitting ChatGPT equivalent is Bard. As mentioned above, Google Bard is an experimental conversational AI service. However, it’s equally powerful with multiple features like access to the Internet, extension support, citing sources, multimodal help, and much more.

Is Google Bard better than ChatGPT?

While both ChatGPT and Google Bard are capable AI bots, calling one better over the other wouldn’t necessarily be correct. Both the AI chatbots come with their own set of nuances that users love. So, while Google Bard comes with multiple drafts and sources for variety, some absolutely love GPT-4s speed and data. So, as is with everything in life, your mileage may vary.

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How to Use ChatGPT 4 For Free

By admin March 1, 2024

How to Use ChatGPT 4 For Free, OpenAI recently released its latest GPT-4 model, which is much more powerful than anything OpenAI has released so far. It is the largest language model system OpenAI has developed, and it also comes with vision capability. GPT-4 is multimodal, meaning it can interpret not only text but image inputs as well. Apart from that, it performs well in reasoning tests and supports about 26 different languages.

That said, ChatGPT 4 is not available to free users. You have to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus to try out GPT-4. Nevertheless, in this guide, we bring you simple ways to use ChatGPT 4 for free. You can access the advanced GPT-4 language model without paying any price. So on that note, let’s jump to the guide.

1. Use ChatGPT 4 for Free on Bing Chat

You can use GPT-4 for free on Microsoft Bing without any limitations. Just after the release of the GPT-4 model, Microsoft came forward and announced that its Bing AI is already running on the GPT-4 model (codename: Prometheus). In fact, Bing AI has some additional features that ChatGPT 4 does not have by default.

You can get answers live from the internet, generate images on Bing AI with a simple prompt, and get citations for information. Now let’s go ahead and learn how to use Bing to access ChatGPT 4 freely.

1. Head over to bing.com/new (visit) and click on “Chat now”.

2. Now, switch to the “Creative” mode and ask your questions. This mode uses the GPT-4 model.

3. You can also install the Bing app (Android / iOS — Free) on your smartphone and enable the “GPT-4” toggle. Now, you can start talking to GPT-4 without any limitations. You can also upload images to Bing to use GPT-4’s multimodal capability.

2. How to use ChatGPT 4 on Perplexity AI

For those unaware, Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that combines its database with the Internet to provide a seamless experience. However, what makes it different is that it has a new Co-Pilot feature that uses GPT-4 to give enhanced search results and better information. Learn how to access ChatGPT 4 for your searches using the steps below.

1. Head to the official Perplexity AI website to begin the process.

2. Click on the “Sign up” button to quickly make an account. Go through the motions of making an account by entering your credentials.

3. You’ll now land on the main page, but our focus is in the search bar. Toggle on the “Copilot” option to enable the “GPT-4” model. Free users can ask 5 questions every four hours.

4. Now, type out your query or click on any of the pre-filled options and press return. In my case, I asked it to plan a trip to Italy. As you can see, Copilot understood my question and even asked me about my preferences.

5. And just like that, we have our trip. Just like the best ChatGPT plugins, Perplexity AI used GPT-4 to search the Internet and use AI to create a plan for me. You get five queries every 4 hours, so use them wisely.

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3. How to use ChatGPT 4 on Merlin

Merlin has already appeared on our list of ChatGPT Chrome extensions. However, we are mentioning it again as it’s also an amazing way to access GPT-4 for free. If you are new, you should know Merlin is an AI-powered extension that can intelligently act as a guide. You can summon Merlin through keyboard shortcuts or click its icon for help on various topics, including searches, articles, and more. Follow the steps below to set it up:

1. First, visit the official Merlin Chrome extension page and click “Add to Chrome.” You’ll now go through a small tutorial. That’s just there to teach you the basic steps.

2. Now, we need to pin the extension for easy access. Click on the extension menu and then the pin icon next to Merlin.

3. Now, simply head over to any website or even Google and tap the Merlin extension. A chat will open up.

4. Finally, click on the dropdown menu and select GPT-4 to get Merlin to use that. Do note that while you get 51 free queries, GPT-4 uses 10 queries at once. You can even turn on web access beside it if you wish.

5. Just like that, you’re using GPT-4 using Merlin. The extension will now use the LLM and perform any task you wish. Definitely, an easy way to access ChatGPT 4 for free.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Chat GPT-4 available now?

Yes, ChatGPT-4 is available for use to those who have subscribed to ChatGPT Plus.

Can I use Chat GPT-4 for free?

Although there is no way to directly access Chat GPT-4 for free without subscribing to ChatGPT Plus, you can make use of it via GPT-4-integrated chatbots like Microsoft Bing, Perplexity AI, and others.

What can Chat GPT-4 do?

Chat GPT-4 is an AI language processing model that can analyze texts and images to provide answers to prompts that come from users of the advanced chatbot. The possibilities are endless when it comes to all that Chat GPT-4 can do.

How much does a ChatGPT Plus subscription cost?

ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month for every region across the globe.

15 Best ChatGPT Plugins You Should Use Right Now

As if it wasn’t already possible, ChatGPT keeps scaling new heights. Thhe chatbot comes with some amazing features and data. However, did you know that there are plugins that you can pair with the AI chatbot? Even though Google remains somewhat of a competition with its PaLM 2 model, the OpenAI product remains massively popular. To make your job easier, we have scoured the ChatGPT plugin store and picked the best plugins already. So, without further ado, let’s begin.

1. Prompt Perfect

First up, we have Prompt Perfect, one of the best ChatGPT extensions that lets users write the perfect prompts for the AI chatbot. If you are part of the few not able to do so, Perfect will immensely help you. To begin, enter a prompt for whatever you want to ask the AI bot. In our case, I ask ChatGPT to write a 200-word story about cars.

However, make sure to write the word “perfect” before your prompt. Once done, the plugin will rewrite the entire prompt under the hood to make it highly detailed to ChatGPT. This helps the AI chatbot come up with informative and specific answers for your prompt. Besides that, the plugin requires no other intervention and has a plug-and-play nature. Check it out.

2. OpenTable

One of the best ChatGPT plugins we used was OpenTable for quick and seamless restaurant bookings on the go. This ChatGPT plugin is based on ensuring users book their times with the least possible effort. As such, you only need to provide ChatGPT with all the basic requirements, like the date, time, location, and number of people.

The plugin then takes in the information and automatically finds specific restaurants. The links provided by the plugin even lead to the reservation details already pre-filled, making it one of the best ChatGPT plugins for convenient restaurant bookings.

3. Wolfram

While it can get a bit technical for some users, the Wolfram ChatGPT plugin is one of the best due to its advanced abilities. Powered by advanced data, Wolfram allows ChatGPT users to access advanced computation, math, and real-time data to solve all types of queries.

So, instead of sticking to just basic math problems, you can ask Wolfram for advanced help like creating a genealogical tree, creating an audio spectrogram, illustrating anatomy, and much more. It can even tell the date and time in real-time, which isn’t something ChatGPT can do. So, go ahead and experiment with Wolfram to see which feature works best for you in this ChatGPT plugin.

4. Zapier

Made explicitly to eliminate and ease unnecessary workflows, Zapier is one of the top ChatGPT plugins for working professionals as well as marketers. In a nutshell, Zapier lets users interact with over 5,000 different work apps without ever needing to perform extra steps. This includes all mainstream apps like Gmail, MS Outlook, Slack, and many more. All users need to do is complete a one-time connection and approve some actions.

Once done, you can practically draft entire emails or send in-depth Slack messages right from ChatGPT. Zapier then works in tandem with ChatGPT to make it possible and also lets users make edits to their actions. So when I asked to draft a test Gmail, it created the action almost instantly and let me send it. Check it out if you’re too lazy to open your mail client.

5. Canva

Canva has finally introduced its ChatGPT plugin, and it’s now available on the plugin store. It can do several tasks, from generating social media posts to videos for Instagram Reels and TikTok. You can also use it to generate templates for websites with descriptive prompts and create presentations right inside the chat interface.

The best part is that Canva allows you to edit the generated content for further customization. You just have to click the link, and it will take you to its website, where you can make changes. Not to mention, you don’t even have to log in to Canva to make key changes. All in all, the Canva plugin is truly a great addition to ChatGPT and brings so many new utilities to a chat interface. It’s also very easy to use the ChatGPT Canva plugin so you don’t need to fuss a lot with it.

6. Argil AI

While it’s quite easy to use DALLE 3 with ChatGPT, the Argil AI is an amazing plugin for images. Using Argil AI, users can generate images right within ChatGPT itself.

All one needs to do is select the plugin and describe the image they want it to create. The description can be very vivid for variety. You can even take inspiration from the best Midjourney prompts. Once done, simply hit return and wait while the image is generated. Within a few moments, Argil AI will output a beautiful image to the user. Opportunistic users can even compile a collection and make money with ChatGPT using this way. Check out Argil if you can’t be bothered to use DALLE 3.

7. VoxScript

VoxScript is one of the best ChatGPT plugins with some added features. This includes the ability to quickly fetch YouTube video details and even its transcript in a detailed manner. So, if you were relying on the best ChatGPT Chrome extensions for that, you could use Vox now instead.

To begin, just ask to provide Vox with a URL of the target video and ask it to generate a transcript. The plugin will then run with ChatGPT and quickly dish out a detailed transcript along with its basic details and a view count. However, for users who want more, VoxScript can even comb through financial sources and even get you Google search results for even more data.

8. Kayak

One of the best plugins for travel planning with ChatGPT, Kayak lets users easily book flights and hotels and get travel recommendations for all their trip-planning needs. As before, it requires your basic details such as origin, destination, arrival, and departure time. Once done, Kayak will guide you through plenty of flight options available from your location.

The detail includes the total price, expected layovers and delays, popular airlines, and more. Once you’re happy with your selection, ask ChatGPT to generate links, and Kayak will do that, too.

9. Link Reader

While some of the best ChatGPT Chrome extensions can read webpages for you, not everyone is into extensions and wants stuff simpler. For those, Link Reader can be one of the best ChatGPT plugins. Put simply, this plugin can read the content of all kinds of links, including webpages, PDFs, images, and more.

All one needs to do is provide it a link and ask it for information. ChatGPT then interfaces with Link Reader and provides a well-detailed answer to the query. So, if you’re looking for a quick summary, this plugin is one to turn to.

10. Speak

For the linguists out there, Speak can turn out to be one of the best plugins if used correctly. True to its name, Speak is a plugin that lets you learn how to say anything in other languages.

This essentially makes Speak like a language tutor. Besides translation, users can use Speak for verbs, conjugations, nuanced grammar, and much more. To begin, type out your language query, and the ChatGPT plugin will respond back almost immediately.

11. There’s an AI For That

While most of these plugins are one-off function ones, this ChatGPT tool comes under our best list because it is practically a collection of them all. There’s an AI that has a wide-ranging database of a variety of tools one might need in their professional and personal life. This includes simple tools like image editors, PDF converters, and much more.

To look for specific tools, simply ask the AI about your exact requirements, and it will provide you with a handy list. I tried the same for PDF converters, and the plugin gave a concise list easily. Check it out yourself.

12. Instacart

While ChatGPT already gives you recipes, it cannot seek out ingredients for you. Instacart, on the other hand, makes its way into our best ChatGPT plugins list for this reason. Based solely on food, this ChatGPT plugin can intelligently come up with food and drink recipes and provide a detailed breakdown of the steps.

However, what sets it apart is that Instacart then leads to its main service page, where users can buy these ingredients in real-time. So, if you seem to be running out of parmesan for your pasta, here’s where you can get it. The recipe and ingredient generation itself is fast and without errors and did satisfy a foodie like me. So give Instacart a whirl and see if you find the experience tasty.

13. Diagrams: Show Me

Besides leisure, ChatGPT can also help out users in the form of its various productivity tools. One such tool in the form of the best ChatGPT plugins is Show Me, a handy service that lets ChatGPT create real-time diagrams of almost all types. Show Me requires a basic concept for users to display as a flow chart.

In my experience, I asked the plugin to display the concept of Ikigai using a mind map. Both ChatGPT and Show Me worked together to give a visual and text-based representation of it easily. So the next time you feel the need to generate a quick diagram, use this ChatGPT plugin.

14. Image Editor

There are times you might have images needing editing but wouldn’t really want to open up Photoshop for that. For all your basic editing needs, the Image Editor plugin can prove to be one of the best in ChatGPT. The Image Editor can perform various functions for you, including resizing, cropping, blurring, or even rotating the image.

However, do note that you need to provide the image URL to the tool for it to upload it. Once done, simply ask the Image Editor for your request. We asked it to resize it to our dimensions, and it worked extremely well. While its functions are a bit limited, you can quickly do basic editing using this ChatGPT plugin.

15. CoderPad

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We know that ChatGPT can now run code with Code Interpreter, but it only supports Python. However, with the CoderPad plugin, you can run code in over 30 programming languages right inside ChatGPT. That’s amazing, right? There is no need to set up the environment manually or worry about limited package support. Just install the CoderPad plugin, and you can run and test any piece of code.

And these are the best ChatGPT plugins you can use right now. However, do note that the plugin store contains hundreds of plugins, so feel to explore yourself, too. Ever since being boosted with GPT-4 Turbo, the chatbot has been made all the more powerful. However, on the off chance you’re bored, there are also a lot of ChatGPT alternatives you can check out to experiment even more. Got any more plugins recommendations for us? Drop them in the comments below.

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10 Best AI Tools to Boost Productivity in 2024

By admin February 6, 2024

10 Best AI Tools to Boost Productivity in 2024, In the last month, a few new AI-powered sensations have swept the internet by storm. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and other AI productivity tools help people increase their workflow. Now, if you are in seek of more AI tools to boost productivity, then keep reading this article.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that’s becoming famous day by day as we are moving into 2024. It has the potential to change or help individuals or many industries by improving business operations, and healthcare among other things.

As a result, the demand for AI productivity tools is increasing among organizations and the people running small businesses are highly interested in implementing AI tools to gain a competitive edge.

AI tools offer a variety of benefits ranging from automating tasks to enhancing user interaction. As we approach 2024, there are many exciting AI tools that are available to help businesses and individuals.

In this article, we are going to discuss 10 AI tools to consider in 2024, each with its own unique capabilities and potential applications. whether you are looking to automate small tasks, enhance decision-making or gain deeper insights from the data, these tools can help you achieve your goals or unlock new possibilities in the world of AI.

1. ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology and developed by OpenAI that allows us to generate a text-based response in human language. In the list of AI productivity tools it is one of the best tool. The language model can assist you with tasks such as generating essays and composing emails, and coding. The main aim to build this tool was to eliminate the problem of the traditional chatbot methods which we were using throughout the platforms like e-commerce, banking, etc and it works like a normal human being.

Features:

• Text Based Response: This can provide information on a variety of topics and responds to the user with text-based responses.

• Wrok Like Vartual Assistant: It can serve as a virtual assistant for managing little jobs.

• Language Feature: Analyze the language and suggest changes that can make the information more readable and accessible.

• User Recommendation: Recommend things like movies, restaurants, etc. based on the user’s input.

• Code Builder: Used to create code for different programming languages.

• Simple UI: ChatGPT is made to be simple to use and navigate while offering a warm and engaging experience.

• Subject Expert: This is able to converse about several different subjects at once and comprehend and react to difficult queries.

•Free: ChatGPT is free.

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2. Hostinger AI Website Builder

Hostinger AI Website Builder is designed to help users build websites that are suitable for a variety of goals. This all-inclusive solution streamlines the process: after registering, provide information about your brand, and watch as the AI creates a unique website design in a matter of minutes. 24/7 customer support is provided in case you get stuck at any step.

The platform is extensive, covering duties like creating engaging material, choosing pertinent graphics, and combining crucial design components. The application ensures an amazing appearance and good search rankings for your site thanks to its intuitive drag-and-drop editor and integrated AI SEO tools. All of this is offered at a price that is exceptionally low. It’s free to try and $2.99 or ₹149 per month, get free hosting and domain and 30-days money back guarantee. The best part is no payment method attachment is required for accessing the free hosting service.

Features:

• AI Logo Generator: The logo maker produces a professional and AI-generated logo for your brand within a few minutes.

• AI Business Name Generator: Discover distinct business name concepts that mirror your brand identity – commence at no cost by inputting pertinent keywords into the search field.

• AI SEO Tool & AI Writer: Includes templates optimized for SEO and a multitude of SEO capabilities. To kick things off, your sitemap will be generated automatically – no manual work is required. Then, their AI tools can craft meta titles, descriptions, and alt texts, all contributing to improved search engine rankings.

• Ecommerce Features: Access a complete set of online selling tools at your disposal. Showcase upto 500 products, oversee inventory and order management, facilitate payment processing, and beyond. Enable hassle-free appointment bookings with just a few simple clicks.

• AI Heatmap: The AI Heatmap feature enables you to understand user interactions with your website. It visually represents the sections of your page that garner the highest engagement, empowering you to rearrange them based on user clicks and gaze patterns.

3. DeepBrain AI

DeepBrain AI is a cutting-edge video synthesis and the best AI video generator company that specializes in creating hyper-realistic AI humans. You can create stunning videos with just a script, and use photo-realistic AI avatars that can speak 80+ languages and gesture naturally.

It has the right template for you, whether you need a training video, a marketing video, a how-to video, or a news video. Creating high-quality videos manually is time-consuming and challenging. But, with the DeepBrain AI productivity tool, video production has become a lot more efficient and less time-consuming.

Features:

• AI Avatars: DeepBrain AI has 100+ fully licensed AI avatars that can support video production. It also gives you the option to create custom avatars for celebrities, politicians, brand ambassadors, and more.

• AI Video Generator: Create generative AI videos with just a script. Text-to-video conversion in 5 minutes and reduce the time and cost by 80%.

• Conversational AI Humans: Humanize the digital engagement by AI Humans that can listen and respond to your customers or users in real time. Also, integrates with chatbots and Large Language Models for natural conversations.

• Metahumans: Create immersive experiences with the upcoming 3D digital humans that are ready for the metaverse.

• This comes with marketing features built-in that can automate certain simpler activities, including creating tweets on any subject.

• It enables you to share your writing with others and work on writing projects with others.

• Flexible Text-to-Video Maker: Use text-to-speech to make your AI avatars speak any language. Select various video templates to start from and do hassle-free online video editing.

DeepBrain AI is the best AI video generator that can help you create amazing videos with ease. All of this is offered at a price of $30 per month and just $24 per month with the yearly plan. It also comes with a free trial. So, try it today, create a free AI video and see the difference for yourself.

4. Freepik AI Image Generator

Freepik’s AI image generator is one of many pioneering features provided by the online platform, placing users at the very center of creating out-of-this-world visuals for personal or commercial projects.

Its highly intuitive interface provides the perfect environment to get creative, and with an entire asset library at your fingertips, this is more than just a clever image generator. Let your inner perfectionist shine with the freedom to edit on the go. Change the style, size, color, and tone levels to squeeze the most out of your dreamlike image. Designed by creatives for creatives, Freepik’s AI image generator is amongst the most sought-after AI tools out there.

Features:

• Free to use: Sign up for free and generate up to 3 images per day

• Subscription benefits: Premium users can generate up to 400 images per day

• Beginners guide: An in-depth beginners guide to get you started

• Huge asset library: Support of a colossal asset library to help create stunning, functional designs

• Editing on the go: An in-browser editing tool that allows you to crop, scale, and retouch

• Fantastic quality: Highly detailed outputs that are generated in seconds

5. Personal AI

Personal AI is an advanced conversational AI tool that is designed to help you have smarter conversations with business partners, co-workers, and prospects. Whether you’re looking to automate responses, generate questions, or just have a more natural conversation.

You can automate responses to frequently asked questions, set up automated replies to emails, and even generate personalized messages for your clients or customers. It is designed to be user-friendly and easy to use, regardless of your level of technical expertise. It can be accessed through various platforms, such as messaging apps, email clients, and social media, making it easy to stay connected and productive no matter where you are.

Features:

• Can be used to book flight tickets, check plans, and schedule meetings, it comes with a range of other powerful features to help you stay organized and productive.

• Has several built-in features like a to-do list, calendar, and reminders. This makes it easy to keep track of your tasks, appointments, and deadlines all in one place. Whether you’re managing a busy schedule or just trying to stay on top of your daily tasks.

• It has the ability to connect with all your other accounts and sync all your documents and notes directly. This means that you can access all your files and information from one centralized location, no matter where you are. Whether you’re at home, in the office, or on the go it can help you.

• This can create or send messages on your behalf in your own language. This feature is particularly useful for individuals who need to communicate with people who speak different languages. This can translate your messages into the language of the recipient, ensuring that you can communicate effectively and efficiently.

6. Synthesia

Synthesia is an advanced AI video creation platform that is designed to help you create professional-quality videos quickly and easily. Transforming text into a video within minutes, allows you to create engaging videos for a wide range of purposes, from marketing and advertising to educational and instructional content. its ability to generate videos in different languages and accents.

Whether you’re looking to create content for an international audience or just need to communicate with people who speak a different language, It supports multiple languages and accents and can help you reach a wider audience and communicate more effectively.

Features:

• It has a library of professional actors’ avatars that users can choose from to create their videos. With realistic movements, facial expressions, and gestures, these avatars add a human touch to your videos that help them feel more engaging and authentic.

• Ability to add consistent and professional voiceovers to your videos without the need for expensive equipment. Using advanced text-to-speech technology, it can generate high-quality voiceovers in a range of languages and accents, allowing you to create videos that sound professional and polished.

• Users have complete control over their videos, allowing them to edit and tweak them as needed. Whether you need to change the wording of a script, adjust the timing of an animation, or add additional elements to your video, its editing tools make it easy to customize your videos to your exact specifications.

• Has own built-in video editing tool and this tool allows you to edit your videos quickly and easily, without the need for external software. Whether you’re looking to add music, captions, or special effects, these editing tools give you the flexibility to create videos.

7. Replika

Replika is an advanced AI chatbot that is designed to interact with users in a way that feels natural and human-like. Unlike other chatbots that rely on pre-programmed responses, it uses an autoregressive model to generate responses that are unique to each conversation. As users interact with it, the AI learns more about them and their preferences, allowing it to tailor its responses to their specific needs and interests.

Features:

• It is designed to engage users in meaningful, two-way conversations that feel like they’re talking to a real person. By using natural language processing and machine learning, It can understand the nuances of human communication and respond in a way that feels authentic and personal.

• As users interact with it, the AI learns more about them and their interests, allowing it to generate responses that are tailored to their unique preferences. Whether you’re discussing your favorite hobbies, sharing your thoughts on a particular topic, or just looking for someone to talk to, it can provide personalized responses that feel like they’re coming from a close friend.

• It also has virtual assistant capabilities that can help users manage their daily tasks and stay organized. From setting reminders and scheduling appointments to providing helpful tips and advice, it is a versatile tool that can help users stay on top of their busy lives.

8. Flair.ai

Flair is an advanced AI design tool that is designed to help businesses create professional, branded content in a fraction of the time. With its modern and clean design, Flair is easy to use and navigate, making it a great option for designers of all levels of experience. By analyzing the content of your scene, Flair can become smarter over time, learning from your design choices and recommending improvements that can help you create even better content in the future.

Features:

• Flair allows you to simply drag and drop product images into the canvas, making it easy to create designs that showcase your products in the best possible light.

• It has a range of scene construction features that make it easy to create complex designs that incorporate multiple products and design elements.

• Used machine learning to provide smart prompt recommendations that can help guide your design choices and improve the overall quality of your content. Whether you’re looking for color suggestions, font recommendations, or design tips, Flair has the tools you need to create stunning, professional content in no time.

9. HeyDay

HeyDay is an AI-powered memory assistant that uses advanced technology to help you remember important information you’ve come across online. It allows you to save web pages and content for later use and integrates seamlessly with popular apps like Gmail, Slack, and Google Drive. With this, you’ll never forget important details or miss out on valuable information again.

Features:

• HeyDay uses machine learning algorithms to analyze your browsing history and suggest pages that may be relevant or useful for you to save.

• It helps you stay on top of important events and deadlines by sending you reminders and notifications about tasks you need to complete.

• This can integrate with popular apps like Gmail, Slack, and Google Drive, allowing you to save content and documents directly from these platforms.

10. Chinchilla

Chinchilla is an innovative AI tool that aims to provide an unparalleled experience in natural language processing. It has been designed to be more efficient than GPT-3 with its compute-optimal model and 70 billion parameters, which is four times higher data than Gopher. Additionally, it requires considerably less computing in terms of fine-tuning, making it more accessible and cost-effective for businesses.

Features:

• Requires considerably less computing in terms of fine-tuning.

• Impressive accuracy rate of 67.5%, surpassing the Gopher language model. With its larger size, three times the size of GPT-3 from OpenAI, it can generate more diverse and precise responses to user queries.

• It also offers support for multi-task learning, which enables it to perform various language-related tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question-answering. Its versatility and efficiency make Chinchilla a game-changer in the field of natural language processing.

Conclusion:

As we move further into the future, we can expect more advanced AI productivity tools to emerge. These tools will undoubtedly help individuals and businesses alike to streamline their processes, increase their productivity, and make more informed decisions. With the help of AI, we can analyze vast amounts of data in a matter of seconds and gain insights that were previously impossible. It is exciting to think about what the future holds for AI and the impact it will have on our lives. In the meantime, these 10 AI tools discussed here can be incredibly valuable assets for anyone looking to improve their efficiency and effectiveness in their personal or professional lives.

Best AI Tools to Boost Productivity – FAQs

Q1. What is fastest growing AI tools?

There are multiple tool that increase your work productivity like ChatGPT, Hostinger,Deepbrain AI, Freepik.

Q2. Is AI Tools are Free?

Yes, most of the AI tools like Google Bard, ChatGPT 3, DALL-E 2 are free but there are some AI tools that are not free.

Q3. How AI will impact productivity?

AI tool can easily prove a worker’s performance by as much as 40% compared with workers who don’t use it.

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The Best AI Chatbots for 2024

By admin January 11, 2024

The Best AI Chatbots for 2024, ChatGPT started the AI chatbot revolution, but there are more AI chatbots worth exploring for different uses. We’ve tested them to help you determine which one is right for you.

ChatGPT isn’t the only AI chatbot out there, and knowing their strengths and weaknesses can make a difference in how you use them. Thanks to billions of dollars in investments, these tools improve and change constantly, bringing more excitement about their potential along with sometimes frightening ethical issues. Yet, most people still have basic questions about artificial intelligence, such as, “What is AI?” and “How do I use it?”

We put the best AI chatbots to the test—and we’re still testing more—to cut through the hype and assess what they can really do. Their human-like responses to your questions and prompts, plus their ability to carry on a natural conversation, can help you get information in minutes instead of the hours it might take to sift through individual links in an online search. Chatbots can also do more than that. They can create tables of data, craft a flirty text message, and much more, thanks to add-ons like ChatGPT plug-ins. There’s no ceiling right now on what AI, and specifically large language models, can do for you.

Read on to learn what makes the top generative AI chatbots different from one another and how to choose the best AI chatbot for you.

Deeper Dive: Our Top Tested Picks

Why We Picked It

Unlike the other chatbots on this list, Jasper (also called Jasper AI) has a clearly defined purpose. It’s meant for business use, and it excels at marketing tasks in particular. It comes with helpful templates that you can use to create marketing materials and campaigns. It checks for plagiarism, supports collaboration, and creates custom content based on the information you feed it about your brand and products.

Who’s It For

Although you can use Jasper to do all the same tasks you might ask of other AI chatbots, it’s built for and does its best work when put to use for business marketing. Jasper is one of the top virtual assistants if you need to write website copy about products and brands, create social media campaigns, or even summarize meetings.

The Best AI Chatbots for 2024

Google Bard

Why We Picked It

Of all the AI chatbots we’ve tested, Bard is the most well-rounded. Google’s in-house large language model, called PaLM2, is one of the largest, most sophisticated ones on the web. It powers Bard, which Google currently refers to as an “experiment.” Regardless, Bard writes with more straightforward language than ChatGPT, making it a more conversational AI, which feels consistent with its overall focus on productivity.

Bard makes an effort to cite its sources, though it lacks consistency here. Bard is a better AI chatbot tool for research, shopping, and travel planning than ChatGPT, as it has access to timely information from the web. Moreover, if you don’t like the answer you get from the Bard AI, you can press Google It to get more traditional search results.

Who It’s For

For those who already use Google Search, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and other Google apps, Bard is the best chatbot solution today. It offers export options to these apps, meaning you can ask it to draft an email, then export to Gmail, make some edits, and press send. Bard also offers images in its responses, which can be helpful for understanding complex information that may require diagrams.

Microsoft Bing Chat

Why We Picked It

Microsoft’s newest update to its Bing search engine is Bing Chat—though it’s recently been renamed as Copilot in Bing to be more cohesive with Microsoft’s other AI product. The Bing AI chatbot is powered by OpenAI’s most-advanced models, making it a compelling ChatGPT alternative. It offers the same conversational capabilities as ChatGPT, but with three different styles to choose from: More Precise, More Balanced, and More Creative. Bing Chat also offers a free image generator, which adds a fun, creative element. Bing Chat earns trust with its consistent source citations. However, it often gives shallow answers that may make you abandon it for a more traditional online search.

Who It’s For

For those looking for a quick overview of a subject as an alternative to a traditional online search, the Microsoft Bing AI is an excellent choice. While its competitors do the same thing, Bing Chat stands out because it consistently attributes all its sources, making it easy to verify the information and continue researching on your own.

ChatGPT

Why We Picked It

ChatGPT, which has almost become synonymous with AI, for better or worse, is powered by the most advanced, humanlike large language models on the web: GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. The app produces incredibly comprehensive responses with a friendly attitude. Whether it’s human languages or coding languages, ChatGPT excels at providing you with a foundation of content to build off and change as you see fit. However, it lacks source citations, data from later than 2021, and access to the web for new information, so it’s less useful and trustworthy when it comes to research (or when asking for its opinion).

Who It’s For

ChatGPT is best for anyone just trying out AI who wants to experience some of the most humanlike, impressive AI-generated writing around. Programmers also love ChatGPT, which serves as a helpful companion for debugging and even writing code.

Buying Guide: The Best AI Chatbots for 2024

How Much Does It Cost to Use an AI Chatbot?

Three of the chatbots we tested are free to use. Jasper does not have a free version and starts at $49 per month. ChatGPT has a free version and a paid version, called ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 per month.

Other AI chatbots not reviewed here charge a range of prices. There isn’t much consistency in this market yet. For example, Perplexity charges $20 per month. HuggingChat by HuggingFace is free.

What’s the Difference Between a Chatbot and a Large Language Model?

Chatbot is an umbrella term that large language models fall under. It can apply to a customer service answer bot with limited canned responses, as well as a more sophisticated tool like ChatGPT.

We specifically test chatbots that use a form of AI called large language models. They use vast quantities of data to “learn” patterns in the information and predict user intent based on questions or prompts. No answers are canned or pre-determined. They are uniquely generated for each conversation between human and machine, during which the model remembers recent exchanges and builds on the information in a natural, human-like way.

How to Choose the Best AI Chatbot

To test AI chatbots, we ask each one the same series of questions and compare their answers, looking at accuracy, length, complexity, and consistency over time. We also look at the core features each chatbot offers, such as whether they can create tables of data, provide citations, accurately summarize information, and so forth because it dictates what you can use them for. However, AI technology is rapidly evolving, and what it can do may change in a single day. We account for these differences and note the things that change over time as appropriate.

There are pitfalls to this approach that are worth bearing in mind. For one, it’s impossible to fully vet the scope of an AI chatbot solution. One person may have a niche use case related to their work, while another person may have zero use for that particular functionality. It would require an army of experts in every field to fully evaluate these tools, and even then, the tools change constantly. Not even their creators are quite sure yet what they’re capable of.

That said, there are some clear differences we notice in testing. After spending significant time with each one, you will likely form your own opinion on which are the best AI chatbots, just as we have.

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