Claude by Anthropic 17+

While GPT is very good, CoPilot works well, and Perplexity painted broad strokes of large topics, when I just need to work through something as if I were calling up a very knowledgeable friend, of all the AI (LLMs), Claude is my go-to advisor without peer.

The number one reason Claude is the best all around AI assistant to work with generally is Claude remembers previous conversations, like a friend would. You’re not starting from scratch, it will remember the convo about new concepts for a book from the other week, ideas about getting kids better at being excited about learning, and discussions about authors who were must-reads in high school in the 80s.

Like how you can just pick up where you left off with a good friend, Claude is just like that. No need to reprompt engineer every time, Claude’s your companion to continue getting better every day.

I really like to go analog when I’m doing deep thought work or taking meeting notes - I process best by writing notes by hand. It’s great to take a photo of my notes via Claude and ask the AI to suggest additional thoughts based on what I’ve written. It’s become a great tool for getting knowledge work done with just a notebook and my phone in a way that really adapts to whatever I write or sketch out. It’s also great for not having to type up my written notes, which is a huge hassle. I’m definitely enjoying the app so far!

Also, I LOVE that Claude declines to answer anytime it feels a question isn’t suited for an AI answer. The transparency gives me a clearer idea of what this tech is and isn’t for in my own workflows. “I don’t know” is a wonderful response to see

Really handy with educational answers and general information. Really good at broad answers. Really like using it.
Room for improvement? Specific information and memory, if that’s possible.
Two things to note. One, it made up a ficticious business in an attempt to ‘be helpful’ in answering a question. When I called it out, of course Claude apologized and said it would learn from that. Next time I asked a question it didn’t have information to, it said it didn’t know.
That was before I closed the app. If it’d do it again I’d yet to be seen.
Two, I asked it to save a conversation thread under a file name for future reference and it said it had. But the next time I opened the app it said it had no ability to access such information. This ability would be tremendously helpful in future AI. I suppose a paid AI and personalized might have this feature but Claude does not. Still, for general education and learning it is great.