I’m interested in both technology and productivity so naturally I have an interest in how technology can underpin improved productivity
Like lots of people recently, I have been experimenting with AI software.
What becomes clear very quickly is that ‘there is a lot of it about’. Most people are aware of the existence of ChatGPT but there are many other examples of AI software, often with particular abilities or focused on a particular function or sector. Certainly there are too many for me to test and evaluate. When I started looking at AI, I wanted to use the ‘best’ software. But identifying the ‘best’ means the best for my circumstances, my situation, my purpose and my tasks.
You can (and I did) read reviews to shorten the list of possibilities – but all those ’my’s in the list above mean that reviews do not necessarily help identify what is best for mw.
Additionally, AI is progressing at a fast rate and what you identify as ’best’ now may not be the ’best’ in a few months time.
So I did what I had to do – choose a relatively general purpose software package which would allows me to experiment across a range of applications and tasks..
The point of this tale is not to inform you of how to choose AI software but to remind you that the ’best’ is often an unhelpful objective to pursue. Searching for perfection often means taking too long or costing too much. All productivity facilitators need a healthy dose of pragmatism – realising that ‘better’ is often good enough!