What AI assistants are, in 3 minutes
The shortest possible intro. No jargon.
An AI assistant is software that takes a request in plain language and gives you something back — text, code, an answer, a working webpage. You type what you want; it types back. That's the entire user interface.
Today there are many assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Devin, v0, and dozens more. Underneath, they're powered by large language models (LLMs) from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek. The product you open just decides the shape of the interaction.
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This is an imitation of a chat-style assistant. Drive it like any of the real ones.
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One thing to know. Every assistant can sound confident and still be wrong.
Treat the output as a first draft, not a final answer — especially for facts, numbers, and code.