They are all based on artificial intelligence andmachine learning, but they function in very different ways.
In simple terms, AI chatbots are more about talking, whereas virtual assistants are geared toward doing.
That’s the core difference between chatbots and virtual assistants.
Joe Fedewa / How-To Geek
What’s the temperature?
Remind me at 2 PM to do laundry.
Tell me a joke.
How long will it take to drive from Detroit to Grand Rapids?
How old is Hayden Panettiere?
When is her birthday?
Google Assistant clearly comes out on top, answering each question correctly, including follow-up questions.
ChatGPT failed pretty badly a couple of times.
First, and most egregiously, it’s convinced it can set a reminder for me.
I asked several follow-up questions about where the reminders were being made, where they would appear, etc.
None of this is true; the reminders never appeared anywhere.
Humans arevery good at confidently being wrong.
Of course, Google Assistant and Siri are not perfect truth-tellers.
Google Assistant grabs a lot of information from the web, which can very often be unreliable.
There are some things that it does better.
Impressively better, in fact.
One thing that I’ve been impressed with isChatGPT’s ability to write recipes.
ChatGPT will actually create a recipe for me right then and there.
It’s also great if you ask for a recipe that includes specific ingredients.
you could very easily have a conversation with ChatGPT to fine-tune the results to your liking.
Google Assistant and Siri are not designed for these types of things.
Google Assistant and Siri aren’t “dumb,” they’re doing a different job.
It’s like calling a professional chef “dumb” for not being able to build a house.
ChatGPT is good for some things, virtual assistants are better at, well, assisting.
Virtual assistants don’t have to worry about losing their jobs tochatbots.
