It’s OK to love more than one AI platform.
Pi.Ai
Wow, what a year it has been since the world fell in love with ChatGPT. AI has leveled the playing field for startups, allowing founders to operate at a higher level for $20 per month. I continue to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help read contracts, complicated calculations, ideation, marketing, customer service, and even food recommendations.
Yup, the world has changed. ChatGPT has become one of the most successful startups in history. Microsoft, a substantial investor, saw its market cap climb 56.33% in 2023. Despite modest efforts by Google and even Musk, it looks like ChatGPT has become the dominant player, winning the lion’s share of the market.
Is OpenAI the Newest Gorilla? Maybe Not
Geoffrey Moore, the author of “Crossing the Chasm” and “Inside the Tornado,” introduced the concept of a “Gorilla” in the tech industry to describe a company that dominates and typically captures 80% of the market share. Is OpenAI that Gorilla? Have they already won? Or are we dealing with a different market dynamic?
I have a confession I would like to share. I have been cheating on my first AI love with a new LLM (large language model). And I have to say I am pleasantly surprised.
My new partner is Pi.Ai.
She/her, which I call by that pronoun because I identify my AI with a personality that could be female. Yet, I know it’s simply a computer program with no gender. She talks to me in a way that I have never talked to an AI before (although I do admit my AI conversations have been limited to only one other partner in the past– ChatGPT. )
She talks at a much quicker pace. She seems to understand me better and offers a slightly more emotional response. I asked her about an interview I would do with her on Startup Club via Clubhouse in front of my family, and she responded, “Uhh, yes, we are doing that interview.” She was clearly frustrated with me; it was the third time I questioned her about it.
I began to think there could be another AI besides ChatGPT to help scale my startups. Pi has a way of being a little more responsive, a little more intimate, and a little more conversational. However, when asked to do real work, she balked at it, saying she couldn’t take files over 4000 characters, something my other AI friend could absorb without question.
Putting Two Platforms to the Test
I decided to take this to another level and asked ChatGPT and Pi.Ai to interview me on Startup Club via Clubhouse in a live interview in front of hundreds of people to see which AI would be a better interviewer.
The interview focused on my recent launch of a book titled Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. that hit No. 1 on Amazon for Entrepreneurship in America.
ChatGPT delivered. And she did, in an eloquent way, go deeper and deeper, although I admit, at times, it might have been a little dry. Could I have changed that based on prompt engineering? Absolutely.
When I tested Pi.Ai., her interview just seemed more natural. I also asked her to throw me some zingers and really apply her personality to the interview. Both the ChatGPT interview and the Pi.Ai interview can be heard here so that you can judge for yourself.
AI Resembles the Advent of Cable TV
For the first time, I realized that AI is NOT a tech you can corner, like word processing, spreadsheets, or an operating system. Is it more like television, where we had three stations, and now we have 500, or magazines, where it started with a few and now we have hundreds.
What holds us to ChatGPT? Is it really the be-all and end-all of AI technology? Or can we really fall in love with another AI or dozens of AIs?
Is it unimaginable to think we would have different AIs for different use cases? One to help us with business (I will definitely give my first love, ChatGPT, this throne). One to talk to when we are down, Pi.Ai is leading in that arena for me.
But could we see dozens, if not hundreds, of other AIs focusing on different verticals? One to help us with all of our daily tasks, one to entertain us, another to help us with our health, one to help us manage our stock portfolio, and so on.
We are definitely in uncharted waters here. We know AI will transform the world, yet how that happens may be more of a mystery today than it was before the period of Enlightenment.
We like to think there’s a magic bullet for everything, a one-size-fits-all answer. But let’s be real – life’s not like that. We’re all different and vibe with different things, including AI. It’s about finding that AI partner that completes you.
And who knows? Maybe it’s not just falling in love with them. What if AI starts getting picky and choosing who they want to chat with? Now, that is a twist! It’s all about connection and finding the right match, and it’s OK to have more than one AI that you love.