Meet the AI Helpers! 🦸

The Big AI Assistants

| AI | Made by | Best at | |----|---------|---------| | ChatGPT | OpenAI | Writing, coding, general help | | Claude | Anthropic | Long documents, careful analysis | | Gemini | Google | Connected to Google Search, images | | Copilot | Microsoft | Code writing, integrated into Windows | | Cody | This app! | Teaching you coding and AI! 😄 |

✅ What AI Chatbots Can Do BRILLIANTLY

Write & Create

• Write stories, essays, poems, song lyrics
• Come up with ideas for projects, gifts, games
• Rewrite things in different styles or levels

Explain & Teach

• Break down complex topics (like this app does!)
• Answer "what is..." and "how does..." questions
• Create practice quiz questions on any topic

Code & Problem-Solve

• Write, explain, and debug code
• Solve maths problems step by step
• Suggest solutions to problems

Translate & Summarise

• Translate 100+ languages
• Summarise long articles or documents
• Rewrite things more simply

❌ What AI Chatbots CANNOT Do (and get wrong!)

Real-Time Information

You: "What happened in the news today?" AI: "I don't have access to real-time information. My knowledge has a cutoff date."

The "Hallucination" Problem 😱

AI can confidently make things up — this is called "hallucinating":

You: "Who wrote the book 'The Quantum Cat'?" AI: "The Quantum Cat was written by Dr. Sarah Johnson in 2019. It won the Booker Prize and..." Problem: "The Quantum Cat" doesn't exist. Dr. Sarah Johnson doesn't exist. The AI made it ALL up — confidently! 😅

Always verify important facts from real sources!

💡 The Golden Rule

Use AI as a starting point and helper, not as an unquestionable truth machine.

Ask AI → Get ideas/draft → Verify important facts → Use the result!