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Navigating the AI Jungle — Chat Bots

We are overrun by AI tools and services today. A simple guide

Erik Engheim
8 min readFeb 2, 2025

There are so many AI-powered applications today that you will quickly get lost. You can easily spend the whole day trying out different tools getting nothing done.

I figured I would do my part in helping you out navigating the AI jungle by sharing my experience with different AI tools and services. I will tell you which ones I like and which ones I like less. This is personal experience and not some kind of corporate summary by looking the webpage blurbs.

Chat Bots

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT is the one that started the AI hype. Let us compare the alternatives.

ChatGPT session

ChatGPT

I have tried various alternatives, but I like to say I feel OpenAI makes an overall solid product. It is not just that their model gives good answers, but they also have a polished UI.

For instance, while DeepSeek works really well and is cheaper, what keeps me with OpenAI is the voice chat. I really love being able to just walk around and talk to the AI. When I take…

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Erik Engheim
Erik Engheim

Written by Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.

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