I rely on wirecutter before I buy anything, and I am desperate for someone to tell me which language models are good for which things.

Because otherwise, I am spending so much money on these things, and I'm spending all this time trying to figure out what is good for what.

And I would just love it if you all, who are the experts in the world at testing things and figuring out what they're good for, would do that work for me.

I'm Christine Sir Clissette.

I'm Rosie Garron.

And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Rosie. Hi. Hello. Hello. I'm excited about our episode today. I am going to be chatting with Kevin Ruse, New York Times tech colonist.

He writes about many facets of tech and talks a lot about AI, both in the newspaper and on his New York Times podcast, Hard Fork, which he co-hosts with platformers Casey Newton.

Kevin is so great. The podcast is so great. I'm really, really excited you're doing this. I am too.

So Kevin and I are going to talk today about something that we haven't covered on this show before, AI,

which of course everyone is talking about AI. But the reason we're going to talk about it on the

Wirecutter show is because there is this intersection of consumer products and AI at this point.

Absolutely.

And especially with these large language models, LLMs, which are the chatbots like ChatGBTGPT and Claude, he knows a lot about all of these.

And a lot of people are using them at this point.

And so we're going to really dive deep into all of that.

And I have to say in this episode, we talk a lot about AI chatbots.

So we do need to make the disclosure that we work for the New York Times company, which is suing

several companies, Open AI, Microsoft, and perplexity over alleged copyright violations.

That's right. And with that, I'm looking forward to hearing you and Kevin discuss AI's changing the way people shop, how it's being integrated in hardware products, and hopefully hearing some of Kevin's best tips on actually using these LLMs smartly and strategically.

I'm really interested in this intersection between AI and wirecutter.

After the break, Kevin Ruse.

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