GenAI Diary

Last update: Sunday 2/16/25

Diary of a computer savvy generative AI blogger

This page records the editor's experience as a computer savvy user of generative AI technology who only interacts with LLMs via chatbots, e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. He uses genAI whenever he thinks it will enable him to increase his productivity by doing things better and/or faster and/or with less effort. These notes reflect his successes and failures.

All of his notes are dated, and will be modified or deleted if/when his subsequent experience suggests that the issues he identified have been improved or fully resolved. The dates of his newest notes will be displayed in a "red" font that will fade to "black" whenever a newer topic is addressed.

A. Apple | B. ChatGPT | C. Claude |  D. Gemini | 

E. Perplexity | F. Copilot | G. DeepSeek Chat | H. Grok

Links to "Use Case" notes ...

• Use case: Chatbots as digital secretaries (in process) … ChatGPT … Claude … Gemini … DeepSeek-R1
  
  
• Use case: iPhones (or other smartphones) to enhance prouctivity (extension) via generative AI
  
  
• Use case: Search (extension), i.e., which chatbots can or cannot search and how effectively.
  -- ChatGPT ... Claude ... Gemini ... Perplexity
  -- Copilot ... DeepSeek Chat ... Grok
  
  
• Use case: Search and Think (extension), i.e., which chatbots can or cannot search and and think, how effectively.
  -- ChatGPT ... Gemini ... Perplexity
  -- Copilot ... DeepSeek Chat ... Grok
  
  
• Use Case: Understanding how DeepSeek's R1 (extension)  revolutionized generative AI.
  

A. Apple

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B. ChatGPT

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C. Claude (Anthropic)

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D. Gemini (Google)

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E. Perplexity

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F. Copilot (Microsoft)

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G. DeepSeek Chat
-- When asked for the name of the chatbot interface to DeepSeek's models, it replied  ➡ "The chatbot interface you're interacting with is called DeepSeek Chat, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model."

-- Note that V3 is the default model for Chat -- like GPT-4o is for ChatGPT -- but it is not the "thinking" model; the "thinking" model R1 is invoked from the same chatbot by clicking the "DeepThink" icon on the left side of chatbot's prompt window.

-- Users can download the chatbot app fron DeepSeek's homepage:
https://www.deepseek.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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H. Grok

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