Welcome to this week’s edition of Architecture Insights. The weekly newsletter on artificial intelligence for architects, landscape architects, and designers.

This week's post will explore seven AI chatbots to determine the most suitable one for architects and designers, aiming to enhance their daily tasks.

This Week In AI

1. Meta releases their own AI image generator.

Named “Imagine with Meta”. Meta also plans to become one of the few to include watermarks on their images. It will be rare to see any use cases for this image generator as Midjourney and DALL-E are still ahead of it in terms of quality.

2. Midjourney revises its term of service in response to copyright infringement concerns.

Lots of users are confused at midjourney which essentially gave itself more freedom to ban and control users’ accounts in the case of violating their terms or service.

7 AI Chatbots

When it comes down to which Chatbot to use most of it will come down to preference since for our use cases as designers or project managers there are not going to be drastic differences between different models. 

There are minor benefits and differences that separate them so let's go over the most used ones and each of their advantages.

ChatGPT: The original and most popular chatbot.

GPT-4 for paid users, GPT-3.5 for free users.

ChatGPT is convenient for anyone using DALL-E as it is built directly into it.

A big advantage to having a subscription is that GPT-4 can support PDFs which is useful when trying to summarize a written document.

Copilot: The chatbot by Microsoft.

Copilot gets integrated into other tools by Microsoft most commonly used in Teams or Bing Search. For web searching, it tends to be the fastest. It also has DALL-E built into it.

Google Bard (Gemini as of February 2024): Google’s chatbot.

Similar price points to ChatGPT, $20 per month for the premium version.

For offices using Google features such as Gmail then using Bard makes sense.

Perplexity: Perplexity is known as the mix between ChatGPT and Google.

The competitive advantage it has is being able to actively search the web to provide the most up-to-date and credited sources to your queries.

The results will appear on the page and you can easily review where information was extracted to give your responses.

It also offers the ability to share your chats with others.

Grok: The chatbot linked to X (formerly Twitter).

Useful for those using X (or Twitter) for their social media. You will need a premium plan on X to run the chatbot.

CopyAI: The best for writing, and helping with proposals, emails, memos etc.

It also features many integrations into more than 2000 apps so creating automated workflows is easy.

Claude: Outperforms ChatGPT in a few areas.

It stands out as the best AI chatbot due to its advanced natural language understanding, seamless user interactions, and impressive accuracy in responses.

Summary

• ChatGPT and Claude are robust general-purpose AI models with a focus on safe and ethical responses.

• Copilot integrates into popular Microsoft tools.

• Google Bard (Gemini) handles large amounts of context and understands complex prompts.

• Perplexity AI combines language models with search for precise and up-to-date answers.

• CopyAI is specialized for marketing and content creation.

• Grok is for real-time social media interactions and engagement on X.

Resources & Tools

As 2023 comes to an end and we look back on the changes in the artificial intelligence space and the world of architecture, there is lots to look back on.

Let us know what kinds of tools you used this year, or are looking forward to using in 2024. Also, let us know any predictions you have for the new year in AI and how it will continue to impact architecture and related professions.

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Until next Friday,

A.I.