Episode 46: Exploring Chat Search and Testing Claude

About The Episode

In this episode, Cary dives ChatGPT’s new web-based “Search” feature and Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude. Cary tests ChatGPT’s real-time search function, highlighting its early-stage quirks and potential for enhanced business applications. Then, he shares his initial impressions of Claude, contrasting its intuitive, user-friendly style with ChatGPT’s more structured approach. Cary wraps up with thoughts on how each tool might fit into different workflows and client projects.

Main Topics Covered

  • ChatGPT’s new Search feature: functionality and challenges
  • Initial impressions and testing of Claude as a writing partner
  • Practical examples of ChatGPT and Claude in client projects

Key Insights

  1. ChatGPT’s Search Tool: Early days, but shows potential for keeping users within the platform, though resource limits may impact usage.
  2. Claude’s User Experience: Offers a warmer, more conversational approach, potentially beneficial for users seeking a responsive writing partner.
  3. Choosing Between AI Models: ChatGPT’s strengths in memory and data handling make it a strong tool for longer projects, while Claude could shine for quick, interactive tasks.

Episode Index

  • Introduction and overview of new tools in AI
  •  ChatGPT’s Search feature: first impressions
  • Introduction to Claude and initial hesitations
  • Writing a book with ChatGPT as a content partner for a client
  • Organizing client interviews into book chapters using ChatGPT
  • Using ChatGPT for creating sales-focused assets for an insurance client
  • ChatGPT’s new Search feature compared to traditional Google searches
  • Recommendations for using ChatGPT’s Search for business insights
  • Testing Claude: Cary’s “Mac vs. PC” analogy
  • Claude’s limitations: resource limits and longer lock-out periods
  • Pros and cons of Claude’s interactive approach for writers
  • Closing thoughts on AI tools as efficiency partners, not replacements