Artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly the biggest tech trend of 2023. Since the AI company OpenAI launched its ChatGPT language model last November, the web has gone AI-mad, even though plenty of machine-learning tools were already available.
AI is designed to make our lives easier by performing tedious tasks for us, but while many of the latest tools are very impressive, others are gimmicky and even creepy. Here we recommend the best new AI tools you can try for free, and explain why they’re worth using.
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The biggest new AI tool of the year (so far) is undoubtedly the Chat mode in Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It’s powered by the same) but is more focused, topical and convenient for web searches, and entirely free to use (ChatGPT has a paid-for Plus plan).
