Scope and Environmental Scan

Environmental Scan

We present here an environmental scan of the major LLM chatbots Ontario educators are likely to come across. This scan is not meant to be exhaustive, nor to provide a taxonomy or evolutionary record of the LLMs “in the wild.” As models proliferate, are rebranded/revised, or in the case of open-source models, forked and customized, it will become more and more difficult to keep track of them all. Readers interested in a more comprehensive survey of LLMs, their characteristics, and their relationships to each other can consult “A Survey of Large Language Models.”

 

Chatbot Name Based On Developer General Capabilities and Notable Features Web Interface URL
ChatGPT GPT-3.5+ OpenAI
  • Conversational AI
  • Multimodal content generation
  • Extensibility to non-LLM tasks (eg math, flight booking) via “plugins”

 

 OpenAI ChatGPT
BlenderBot 3 OPT-175b Facebook AI (Meta)
  • Conversational AI
  • Retreival Augmented Generation

 

 BlenderBot 3

*USA only at time of writing
Bing Chat/Copilot GPT (version may vary) Microsoft
  • Conversational AI
  • Tight integration with Microsoft’s applications and operating systems
  • Retreival Augmented Generation
  • Enhanced Search
  • Multimodal content generation

 

 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing
Bard/Gemini LaMDA Google
  • Conversational AI
  • Tight integration with Google’s applications and operating systems
  • Retreival Augmented Generation
  • Enhanced Search
  • Multimodal content  generation

 

 https://gemini.google.com

*USA only at time of writing
Claude Proprietary Anthropic
  • Conversational AI
  • Multimodal content generation

 

 https://www.aitutorpro.ca/

*USA only at time of writing
AiTutorPro GPT (unspecified licensed ChatGPT) ContactNorth
  • Self-assessment and quizzing
  • Structured conversational learning
  • Targeted at Ontario students

 

 https://www.aitutorpro.ca/
AiTeachingAssistantPro GPT (unspecified licensed ChatGPT) ContactNorth
  • Generation of quizzing and assignments
  • Generation of course descriptions, learning outcomes, and syllabi
  • Targeted at Ontario educators

 

 https://www.aiteachingassistantpro.ca
Grok Proprietary (rumored to be an open source llama or mistral 7b variant) xAI
  • Conversational AI
  • Retreival Augmented Generation via X/Twitter search
  • Inbuilt “sardonic/sarcastic sense of humor”
 https://grok.x.ai/

*USA only at time of writing

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