Finding the right tech gift is complicated. There are the needs of the gift recipient, the availability of options, comparisons of features and specs, and your budget. As a tech expert, you'd think I'd have an easier time, but my brain is mostly overwhelmed with tech minutiae, and I struggle to boil it all down into a useful and timely decision. It's in these moments where artificial intelligence and a growing legion of generative, large language model chatbots can do the most good.
Put another way, I've been having a week-long conversation with ChatGPT 4o about what to get my mother-in-law, and while the AI has not entirely solved my problem, it gets huge points for patience, persistence, and memory.
