Best AI tools of 2023: ChatGPT, Bard, and more

2023 is the year of AI, with chatbots now able to generate text, images, and videos, and even engage users in human-like conversations.

The most popular AI tool of 2023 is OpenAI's ChatGPT, a chatbot that can answer almost all questions, ideate, and even write programs.

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Microsoft Copilot (previously known as Bing Chat) is another AI chatbot powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. It can engage in human-like conversations, help with coding, and travel planning, and even help you learn new languages.

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Backed by Google, Runway Gen-2 is known for its ability to create videos from simple text prompts, complex images, and existing videos.

Dall-E 3 is a text-to-image generator that powers popular products like ChatGPT, Paint, and Copilot. It can help you generate high-quality photos in a few minutes.

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Midjourney is another AI-powered image generator that can generate realistic images. Just describe the image in text and it will generate a unique photo that can be refined to your preferences.

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Claude is another chatbot that can have human-like conversations and help with tasks like making recommendations and answering questions.

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Unlike other AI chatbots which often lack a personality, Character.ai lets you talk to celebrities, fictional characters and historical figures, educators, mental health counsellers, and more.

Designed for coders, GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool that provides suggestions based on comments and also offers real-time assistance when coding. and even engage users in human-like conversations.

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Adobe Firefly is a free-to-use image generator that lets you modify photos the way you want to, making it the preferred choice for designers and content creators.

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Perplexity AI is a conversation AI tool that can answer all your questions by searching for information on the internet while focusing on the quality and credibility of the generated content.

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Pi Chatbot is an AI tool that acts less like a chatbot and more as a personal assistant. It can also access information in real-time.

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Google also introduced its ChatGPT competitor - Bard. The chatbot is available in 46 languages across 238 countries and evolves with the user.

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