AI tools

Best at citing sources but often wrong or confused, including fabricating a price, finishing last on 19 points.

The iPhone's assistant told funnier, more varied jokes and won 3-0.

The Android assistant told the same joke repeatedly and lost 3-0 on humour.

His favourite app of the list, for AI editing that understands foreground and background, though AI portraits cost per use.

Transcribes meetings and events and made their iPhone 14 launch video much quicker to produce.

Isolates vocals and instruments in any track using AI, which he finds almost unbelievable.

Can replace several apps and hides fun quizzes, games and reminders that many people never use.

Likes the idea of an AI search co-pilot but finds it biased, error-prone and prone to arguing with users.

Impressed by how much smarter GPT-4 is than ChatGPT, particularly its exam results and problem solving.

Used to show a neural network in action, where it drew faster and neater than Arun.

Generates music effortlessly, which he found impressive but a bit embarrassing and sad compared with his own attempt.

Automatic background removal that beats the manual selection tool he normally uses by a wide margin.

Weak on some basics and has no smart speaker, but the standout for complex routines.

Started strongly and handled smart home tasks, but fell behind on phone device control and sometimes didn't show commands on screen.

He was impressed that this AI story writer worked and added sensible detail to his short prompt.

MIT's radio-wave AI system tracks people through walls and he finds it incredible.

Digital humans with human mannerisms that could blur real and artificial people, rated 10 out of 10.

The AI Twitter bot was taught abuse by users and was shut down within 24 hours, scoring 3 out of 10.