On March 13th, Eugene Chen, Chair of the Canadian Open Data Society and a member of Canada’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Open Government, ran an interactive demonstration session with various AI tools to highlight what’s possible.
Here’s a summary of highlights:
Conversational AIs
- Google Gemini
- Sesame (logs information for up to 30 days)
- ChatGPT
- Google NotebookLM
Other AIs/Tools
- Mistral – conversational, like ChatGPT
- Claude – for writing code
- Deepseek – has web search functionality
- LiveBench – for benchmarking performance of different AI tools by category
- Google AI Studio – search functionality
- Perplexity – deep research functionality (complex, multi-layered inquiries requiring in-depth analysis)
- Operator (ChatGPT Pro) – able to browse websites and perform complex tasks
Visual Generation
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