The easiest and best way to become more familiar with how AI works is to add an AI extension to your browser. If you use Chrome, try the Bing extension: now every time you do a Google search, you will also get an AI response.

Next, pick a general AI and set it as your home page so you see it a lot. For most people, pick ONE of these. Yes the paid versions are MUCH better–GPT 4/Turbo and Gemini Advanced are the two best brains available at the moment–but you will still advance if you start thinking about when you might get some stimulation from AI.

• perplexity.ai GPT 3.5 but with internet search and more. (Paid Pro is better and uses GPT 4.0.) If you want verified information or to find something specific, this is the best.
• copilot.microsoft.com This is the renamed Bing and is also GPT with internet search and was GPT4 all the time until Februrary (but now during peak times, may only be GPT 3.5. Pro is always 4 or Turbo)
• Google Bard is now Gemini but for an adult you need Gemini Advanced (Free for 2 months)
• chat.open.com This is also GPT 3.5 but without the internet connection. For an adult (GPT 4 or Turbo) you need paid ChatGPT Plus (click on Upgrade to Plus).
• Here are three are different brains. They are completely different neural networks. Try these with the same prompt to see how answers differ.
• pi.ai Pi is focused on dialogue. so it makes a good tutor and works well in role playing
• claude.ai Claude has a constitution to try and make it more ethical, but it is also designed to have more context in writing.
• huggingface.co/chat Hugging Chat uses the open source LLM Llama from Meta. It requires no login.

Next, start to explore how these different brains can be fine-tuned into problem-specific tools: