AI has arrived as of November, 2022 when OpenAI introduced the free ChatGPT, "Free" Chatbot. To date, it has become big business. REALLY BIG business. Billions upon billions of dollars are being poured into startups and existing companies with AI divisions. A big cost is setting up data centers to contain the computer power and memory to handle all the Chatbots. It was estimated that Elon Musk is working on one in Texas that has the footprint of three Pentagons.

As I learn, I will post information about it here.

The first to examine is the chatbot vendors. There are about a half-dozen that offer free text based chatbots with restrictions and $20/mo for full usage. I'm looking into the features they offer.

• ChatGPT.com - OpenAI
• Claude.ai - Anthropic
• CoPilot.microsoft.com - Microsoft
• Gemini.google.com Google
• Meta.ai - Meta
• Perplexity.ai - Perplexity

I subscribe to ChatGPT and am learning about Custom GPTs.

Resources
- Steve Little's AI Genealogy Insights website and his "The Family History AI Show." - Hewie Poplock Let's Talk AI Monthly Zoom Meeting. Email Hewie for an invite.