If you want to get started with AI, the many choices can be confusing and overwhelming. So, instead of using ChatGPT, where I can only access a single AI chatbot, here's why Quora's Poe has become my go-to AI platform.
There are so many AIs out there to choose from—wouldn't it be nice if there was a bazaar where you could sample their wares? On Poe, you can. With a single login to Poe's website, desktop program, or mobile app, you can try out hundreds of different AIs to see which ones you like—all for free.
In my case, I started with the official chatbots first. Instead of being able to interact with ChatGPT only, I can access all of these big players on Poe:
Testing all of them out helped me discover that Claude is my favorite AI for getting answers to random questions I'm curious about. Of course, I can't ask Claude a million questions because free access to Poe comes with a daily limit. But the limit is per bot, so I can just switch to Google's Gemini if I run out.
If I decide I want longer conversations with larger context windows, Poe offers an upgrade to a subscription plan. The subscription loads you up with 1,000,000 compute points per month. You can spend those points across different AIs however you'd like, with each bot setting its own point cost per message.
But the choices available don't end at just a few official chatbots. There are hundreds of specialized bots on Poe. For example, you can:
Wait, I haven't forgotten about you insatiable role-players out there. You can use Poe to meet characters like SebastianB, a cold, serious, young college professor who doesn't like being disobeyed.
When brainstorming with AI, I used to paste the same question on different platforms so I could compare answers from different bots. But on Poe, I no longer have to do that song and dance. Its multi-bot chat feature lets me get responses from different bots in the same window.
I first discovered the feature when I was having trouble with a malfunctioning garage door. I scoured the internet with Google but still couldn't figure out what the issue was. I turned to Poe next and used the multi-bot chat to talk out the problem. To my surprise, the bots helped me narrow in on a faulty part of the controller board and replace it. After that, I became a Poe-convert.
Multi-bot chat also lets me check if an AI is hallucinating (making up facts or giving wrong answers) by weighing its response against others. Using the feature is easy: I just @ the AIs by name to have them join the conversation. It's like a Socratic dialogue or a Discord chat room—except with bots.
When AI art generation first burst onto the scene, I found the installation process for most tools too cumbersome. I started searching for free alternatives to Midjourney, and on Poe, I've found an easy way to play with a ton of different image-creation tools.
Here's a small sample of the officially-supported AI image creators available on Poe:
If those don't meet your needs, there are many others to choose from, like LOGO-CREATOR-AI to design logos and AnimagineXL to generate anime-themed pictures. By the way, you can cross-compare images using multi-bot chat just like you can with text. It's slowly becoming my new favorite thing to do on Poe.
Although image generation is the AI superpower you might hear about the most, Poe also hosts an enormous collection of other utilities. For example:
Poe is simply the most frictionless way to access all of these useful and fun AI tools.
There's a reason Poe offers such an enormous selection of AI: any user can create a bot on the platform. For example, I can create a car repair assistant or a Linux scripting tool and let other Poe users access my bot under a freemium model. If you want to give it a shot yourself, check out how to use Quora's Poe to Access AI Chatbots and LLMs.
Poe has taken this quasi-revenue-sharing model one step further. Its new Previews feature lets me create apps that interface directly with AI. I can edit and add to AI-generated content using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—with more languages to come in the future.
Instead of being restricted to using the ChatGPT API, I can create a desktop app or mobile game that connects to any AI on Poe's platform. My head swirls with all the possibilities.
There's no question that ChatGPT is a leader in AI, but Poe has become my favorite AI platform. Using Poe is like opening a user-friendly portal to the entire world of AI.
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