The verdict
AI chatbots
On balance, we felt that ChatGPT gave the most comprehensive and up-to-date results. Results O to queries are sometimes on the long side, but we can’t argue with the amount of accurate detail that’s included. For certain topics, it can be more useful than a traditional web search. It has a sensible fallback to a reduced capacity model when you’ve exceeded the daily limit, meaning that you can still get some use out of it, but we found ourselves hitting the various limits (image generation, data analysis) more than with the other services. The generative art it can produce is top-notch, partially because it tends to make good guesses about what our intention was.