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Forefront, a chatbot to talk to Yoda, Dalí, Sun Tzu…

The proliferation of chatbots makes it increasingly difficult to stand out from the competition, but Forefront’s proposal is, without a doubt, one of the most original we’ve seen so far, something that is certainly appreciated. We can question its usefulness, although I personally believe that in this respect it is up to the task and I will explain the reasons later, but regardless of that, what I have no doubt about is that, at the very least, it will provide us with some really entertaining moments of conversation, and maybe some other conversation worth remembering in the future.

The underlying technology in Forefront is GPT-3.5, although it is true that the tool can also provide access to GPT-4, so in the first instance we could expect a similar experience to what ChatGPT already provides. However, the company identifies this new chatbot as “an improved ChatGPT experience«, a most interesting premise. Now, what does it do and offer to, based on this, affirm that it is capable of improving the experience that the OpenAI chatbot already provides? Is this statement correct?

The answer to the second question is a resounding yes.. I said at the beginning that there are reasons that make Forefront a really interesting chatbot, to the point that if you are also interested in this type of service, you will surely want to try it. And in that case, here is the first good news, and it is that it is a free service. Thus, either because the idea is very interesting to you, or simply because you are curious about it, all you have to do is click on this link, register as a user and you will be able to start using it.

Forefront, a chatbot to talk to Yoda, Dalí, Sun Tzu...

But hey, let’s answer the main question, that is, for what reasons make Forefront worth it, and the first of them is that you provides free access to GPT-4. When you are in a chat, all you have to do is click on the “+” sign that is displayed to the right of the text box in which the prompts and, in the menu that will be displayed, you can choose the new OpenAI model.

Another function, this most striking, is that this chatbot gives you access to a variety of real and fictional personalities (emulated through the AI, of course). The repertoire, as you can see in the image below, is extremely diverse, with options ranging from Einstein to Hermione Granger, an interesting duo made up of Shakespeare and Drake, Pikachu, Picasso or the adorable but short-spoken Groot (and yes , this particular chatbot does exactly what you expect it to do). This feature clearly reminds me of Poe’s feature for creating your own bots, but in this case, instead of defining them yourself, you’re left with a wide and fun selection. With most of them you will be able to speak in Spanish, but some, like Jar Jar Binks (yes, they are that daring) will always answer you in English.

Forefront, a chatbot to talk to Yoda, Dalí, Sun Tzu...

As you may have already imagined, so many options can lead to the accumulation of a large number of conversations, and here we find another exclusive property, at least for now, of the Forefront chatbot, and that is that it offers more advanced management of them, by allowing you to use folders to organize them. At the moment ChatGPT saves all the history in a single location, and at the moment we are waiting for the Bing chatbot to finally add the expected history, but in the meantime, this new option is already one or several steps ahead.

After testing this chatbot for a while with several of its personalities, both with GPT-3.5 and with GPT-4, the first feeling is most positive, taking into account that we are talking about a chatbot experience without plugins. As I said at the beginning, Forefront faces more than growing competition, in a market that already seems to have hatched, so it will have to face difficulties to get a piece of the pie. However, if they manage to achieve a good level of visibility, and continue on the path of innovation that they have already shown in their first proposal, it is to be expected, and even hoped, that they will manage to gain a permanent niche in this market.

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