ChatGPT: Finding & comparing products

Find the exact replacement part for a broken shaver tab from a photo and a voice note to ChatGPT

A small plastic tab broke on Michal Barodkin's Philips shaver after several years. Rather than replace the shaver, they sent ChatGPT a photo of the broken piece and described the problem in a voice message. It found the replacement part, with its Philips part number and a place to order it. It cost six dollars and they picked it up the next day.

Send four AI agents to get real car insurance quotes: Gemini and ChatGPT got none, Claude and Muse got five each

Thy Toeung needed to review their car insurance before their son turned 16. They made a data sheet listing every driver, vehicle and the cover they wanted, and asked Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Muse to act as their insurance-shopping agent and get real quotes from six reputable insurers. Gemini's auto-browse explained it couldn't use the websites and handed back a comparison table to fill in. ChatGPT took 2 hours and 279 messages across 12 attempts and got no quotes; Toeung believes sites such as Allstate, Nationwide and Liberty Mutual block AI agents. Claude ran for 3.3 hours and got 5 real quotes. Muse, on its free tier, used several sub-agents and got 5 quotes in about 20 minutes. Toeung switched insurer and got about twice the cover for around 40% of the previous price.

Pick a mattress under budget from real reviews with ChatGPT

The Sydney Morning Herald's Jessica Yun asked ChatGPT for the best mattress around $600, with top three picks based on quality and value informed by real reviews. They looked at all three, chose a hybrid mattress and paid for it in under 10 minutes, $59 under budget, and say they were delighted with it less than two weeks later.

Poster says:Bought in under 10 minutes, $59 below budget