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How I currently use different AI

Claude 3.5 sonnet: Default workhorse, thinking assistant, Cursor assistant, therapy
Deep Research: Doing comprehensive lit reviews
Otter.ai: Transcribing calls / chats

Stuff I've considered using but haven't, possibly due to lack of imagination:

Operator - uncertain, does this actually save time on anything?
Notion AI search - seems useful for aggregating context
Perplexity - is this better than Deep Research for lit reviews?
Grok - what do people use this for?

Perplexity - is this better than Deep Research for lit reviews?

I periodically try both perplexity and elicit and neither has worked very well for me as yet.

Grok - what do people use this for?

Cases where you really want to avoid left-leaning bias or you want it to generate images that other services flag as inappropriate, I guess?

Otter.ai: Transcribing calls / chats

I've found read.ai much better than otter and other services I've tried, especially on transcription accuracy, with the caveats that a) I haven't tried others in a year, and b) read.a... (read more)

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