Which AI Chatbot Should You Use?

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Wall Street Journal senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern is basically a pro when it comes to getting the most out of artificial intelligence—whether for organizing a list of contacts, doing research for a book or even ordering flowers online. She tells host Pierre Bienaimé which chatbot excels at what tasks, and whether there’s a clear winner among them. And WSJ contributor Heidi Mitchell recounts her experience with a different kind of AI platform: Future You introduces users to virtual versions of their older selves, for a chance at reflection in the present. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.9	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, February 7th.
0:37.8	I'm Pierre Bienn-A for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.3	Three AI chatbots enter the ring, one chatbot leaves.
0:44.5	We'll hear our senior personal technology columnist Joanna Stern's take
0:48.0	on which artificial intelligence services are actually worth paying for.
0:52.5	But first, we hear about an AI helper that isn't devoted
0:55.7	to productivity, but personal reflection. Yes, among all the chatbots out there, one of them
1:06.2	offers you the chance to connect with your older self. Future You is an interactive AI platform developed
1:12.2	by psychologists, researchers, and technologists, and its output is informed by personalized
1:17.5	information you put in, including a photo, so you can see yourself with a few extra wrinkles.
1:23.0	The idea is that if people can see and text chat with their older selves, they'll be able to think
1:28.3	about them more concretely and maybe make some positive changes to their life in the present.
1:33.6	Heidi Mitchell is a Wall Street Journal contributor and she had a weeks-long chat with her future
1:38.3	self. Heidi, how was it for you speaking with 80-year-old Heidi?
1:43.1	Firstly, future Heidi, she's not a fortune teller,
1:47.1	and she wasn't going to tell me when my husband was going to die,
1:50.2	or how much money I was going to have in the bank.
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