Due to Microsoft integrating Copilot into Home windows, we’re all acquainted with AI chatbots, like ChatGPT. Copilot is likely one of the extra fully-featured chatbots on the market, even in the event you keep on its free tier. You should utilize Copilot to look the net utilizing voice, textual content and pictures, you’ll be able to generate AI pictures utilizing DALL-E 3, use plug-ins and even entry GPT 4-Turbo at non-peak occasions. If you’d like extra, together with precedence entry to GPT-4 Turbo and integration of Copilot with the total Microsoft Workplace suite, then you will get it for $20 (£19, AU$33) a month.
The catch is that you simply solely get full Copilot integration with Home windows 11 and chosen PCs working on Home windows 10, which at present have Copilot with “restricted capabilities” in a Preview mode.
You possibly can at all times use Copilot in a browser in fact, however it’s nowhere close to nearly as good because the totally built-in Home windows expertise. Nicely, it simply so occurs that there’s one other resolution to built-in AI accessible to Home windows customers within the type of Ashampoo AI Assistant.
For $11 (£8, AU$15) a month, Ashampoo provides you entry to AI in an app inside Home windows. It really works in Home windows 10 (64-bit solely) and Home windows 11, and has some cool options that distinguish it from Copilot (like keyboard shortcuts and macros). The app solely offers with textual content, and does it in 4 essential areas: translation and enhancing, producing, analyzing and summarizing, and interactive chat.
Translate and enhance
In a nutshell, AI Assistant can do all of the issues Copilot can with textual content, however it’s been set as much as be extra environment friendly at producing particular forms of textual content (Fb posts, textual content for web site creation, and so on.) because of templates and menus that information you thru the method.
It will not hit utilization limits on the GPT-4o (the big language mannequin or LLM that many chatbots are based mostly on), has sooner response occasions, and retains your knowledge out of OpenAI’s arms for coaching. With ChatGPT, it’s essential to open an OpenAI account to make use of its LLM, whereas AI Assistant doesn’t want you to do this. It additionally has keyboard shortcuts to assist pace up operations, and you’ll create macros to make it much more environment friendly.
AI Assistant can lengthen, enhance, shorten, proofread, paraphrase and generate textual content. It could actually translate it into most languages, utilizing completely different tones, too, like humorous or skilled. I requested a Russian speaker to test the standard of its translations into Russian, they usually appeared glad with the outcomes.
I used AI Help to generate a Fb and Twitter (the app doesn’t name it X) publish for a weblog I’d written and it did a ok job that I may simply reduce and paste the textual content, full with emojis, instantly into my social media publish.
Altering the tone of the publish and regenerating it to see the variations was actually helpful. Should you wanted to generate a number of social media posts a day, then AI Assistant would make your life considerably simpler.
Caught up to now
The ‘Interactive’ part of the app is the place you’ll be able to chat to AI Assistant prefer it’s a chatbot. I needed to check its information on one thing that occurred very just lately, so I requested it to “inform me concerning the newest Apple iOS beta”. It instructed me that iOS 17 was the most recent beta and it was full of cool options and described a couple of, which is odd, because the newest iOS beta is model 18…
Confused, I requested about one thing a bit extra basic. “Who’s the British Prime Minister?” It replied with Rishi Sunak. (Should you’re questioning, I’m scripting this 25 days after Sir Keir Starmer took over because the British Prime Minister.)
That’s after I realized that AI Assistant was residing up to now. Ask Copilot or ChatGPT this stuff and it is aware of the proper solutions. It turned out that AI Assistant was final up to date in October 2023, and it seems prefer it doesn’t have internet search capabilities.
However what about one thing somewhat extra historic? No drawback. “Inform me concerning the Stoics”, for instance, will get the type of response you’d count on – an honest description of Stoicism, the traditional Greek philosophy. Ask it to write down a program in Python that helps introduce Stoic ideas into your life and it spits out the code and not using a drawback. Ask it to write down you a poem about Stoicism, and also you get one.
Lastly, there are the picture creation facets… or lack thereof. AI Assistant merely doesn’t have any. Copilot has DALL-E 3 integration, so it might generate a restricted variety of AI pictures a day out of your prompts.
So, briefly, Ashampoo AI Assistant fills a gap for any person who must generate a number of textual content every day. Its interface is way more tailor-made to producing content material for you rapidly than utilizing a free chatbot, however whereas AI Assistant clearly is able to doing all the foremost duties that ChatGPT or Copilot can, its information of present occasions is severely restricted as compared.
There are particular benefits to AI Assistant that justify the $11 month-to-month subscription, notably for heavy customers of AI who exceed their limits on free platforms, however for informal customers, the free chatbots, or Copilot, will fulfill your wants.
