Topic
Assistants
Chatbots and assistants: what they do, and what they cannot.
6 entries in Super Intelligence
Assistants
Chatbot
A chatbot is a program that converses with people in text or speech, ranging from 1960s pattern-matching scripts to the general-purpose assistants built on large language models.
Assistants
Personal assistant
A personal assistant is software that responds to requests in natural language and carries out tasks such as scheduling, messaging, and search, increasingly across multiple applications rather than one.
Assistants
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI's conversational product built on its GPT language models, released in November 2022 and widely credited with bringing generative AI to a mass audience.
Assistants
Grok
Grok is a family of language models and a conversational assistant from xAI, distributed through X and distinguished by real-time access to social posts and a deliberately informal persona.
Assistants
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company and a family of open-weight language models whose R1 release in January 2025 drew attention to low-cost training, published weights, and the scrutiny that followed.
Assistants
Cortana
Cortana was Microsoft's voice assistant, launched in 2014 across Windows Phone and Windows and retired in stages through 2023 as the company moved its assistant work into Copilot.