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 thing 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 of each but am aware of these half-dozen so far.

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

I pay for ChatGPT and am learning about Custom GPTs.