2024 brought us the “know-it-alls” in our phones that still can not figure out how many “r”s are in “strawberry” — I understand it gets confusing sometimes. That doesn’t seem to stop us from copying and pasting every assignment into AI just to get some mediocre answer sure to get us a C+ max. Not all AIs are created equally, so I’m going to rank the best.
#5
Bottom of the barrel: Grok. In fact, I don’t even recommend going to Grok for even the simplest of tasks…I’ve never seen it answer a question correctly. The only thing it is really good for is pointing out who is in a photo or swapping a detail in a photo. Could definitely be used for making a photo for a presentation or slideshow, which is why it even made this list. Could you imagine having to make a Twitter post (or X…) every time you wanted an answer to a homework question? Might be a fun way to cheat if you’re interested in very wrong answers and being inconvenienced.
#4
Microsoft Copilot. Wow. The first week I owned my laptop, I put a question into Copilot and it answered it for me correctly. Easy, right? Later on, I started a new chat, put a new question into it, and it answered the first question for me again. Then, I started a new chat again, asked another question, and it answered the original question I put in again. And yes, it does that all the time. That’s all. Also, there’s a button built into my laptop just to open Copilot, and sometimes I reach a flow state, but then I accidentally press the aforementioned button, and it just ruins my day.
#3
Right in the middle is Google AI Overview. Does that even count? It’s generally only good for the most basic of questions or for clarifications. I find that the more words I start putting into the search engine, Google AI Overview gets more confused. But when I need a quick clarification on a term or an accounting rule, I can just throw that in, and I know Google AI Overview has my back. Though it’s important to remember that AI Overview gets its information from EVERYWHERE on the internet, creating the memorable time someone looked up “cheese won’t stick to pizza” and Overview suggested that you mix glue into the sauce, the suggestion coming from some old Reddit post.
#2
To maybe the surprise of everyone ever, ChatGPT is NOT number one. If spending $20 a month to get mostly wrong answers and your personality stolen sounds appealing to you, then I guess Chat is perfect for you. I mean…Chat is like just fine. If you’re not paying, you have a limit to how much you can say, do, or attach, which makes it essentially useless to the average student. Or you can spend the $20 (yes, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 big dollars) so it can get more screenshots worth of questions wrong. It is super good at making study guides, though. I used a Chat-created study guide for a bio exam once (after getting 50s all semester) and came out on top with a 90.
#1
The AI technology most dear to every student I know is Gemini. Very rarely do I find that Gemini gets things wrong (which is confusing? Aren’t all AI technologies pulling information from the same World Wide Web?). I’ve also never run into the issue of Gemini answering an old question when I open up a new chat, or even mixing up the older and newer topics I’ve asked. Also, let’s talk about the feature where you can just press the Ask Gemini button on Chrome, and the AI can just read your screen. AND there are no text limits or attachment limits, and it’s all free. It is elite.
I personally don’t use Claude…it’s $30 a month or $100 a year. But I’m sure if I did use it, it would’ve outranked every other AI on this list. At the end of the day, all AIs are stupid in their own special ways, so use whatever. I don’t care.
