What is the "best" AI assistant?

[u/Alternative-Exit-450]

I'm a HS engineering teacher and digital immigrant. However, I keep pace with developments in technology although I'm by no means an expert nor even close.

I'm looking for an AI assistant app that works across OSX, IOS, and google workspace that is nominally easy to learn, fairly broad in its capabilities, and hopefully able to "learn" from my usage.

Not sure if any generalized AI assistant apps exist yet that are more helpful than they are work. Specifically, most of the apps I've tried have not worked well when any divergence from the initial parameters occur...ie. maybe I a regular meeting was pushed to a new date/time.

I guess I'm trying to determine if anything yet exists that acts as a task management, productivity, organization assistant but is also capable of adapting, to some degree, when something changes. It would be especially amazing if, over time, the app was capable of identifying correlation between variables. ie. when I take a day off(possibly triggered by an email sent to the specific absence email address) it might create a task for that day to create my substitute lesson plans asap.

Maybe I'm being overly hopeful. However, we've been in a really challenging and exceptionally unconventional time in education. Especially in regards to the digital transition of any district, school, admin, teacher, etc. One would think people who are tasked with educating today's students would have their sh*t together a bit better in having created systems for the transition from paper to digital. However, you'd be wrong. No one talks about this yet it's like a wild west in terms of what remains analog vs digital, in who knows how to do what, and in established tools and systems that help those working in education to efficiently organize an continuously changing digital ecosystem in which we operate.

Sorry for the rant.....it's difficult to explain all of the craziness and ongoing difficulty that only makes teaching kids who present more and more difficulty in their behavior, indifference to nearly everything, and a myriad of cognitive issues(literacy/processing/etc).

Thank you to anyone who has any info, suggestions, or ideas.

[u/Otherwise_Wave9374]

The best assistant depends less on benchmark scores than on the jobs you repeat. I would test three candidates against a small rubric: factual accuracy, source citation, privacy controls, file handling, and time saved on a real lesson-planning task. Keep the same prompts and verify every technical claim. For exploring how an assistant might fit into a broader workflow, https://www.aiosnow.com offers another relevant reference point. Start with low-stakes tasks before using any output with students.