Superhuman Go is an AI assistant from Superhuman, the company that, until recently, was known as Grammarly. It integrates into your browser to offer AI chatbot abilities and answer questions.
Superhuman Go can instantly scan what is on your browser and provide summaries, writing advice and more. The tool also works with other apps such as email, calendar, etc.
After installing Superhuman Go for a week on my browser I found its speed and integration with my workflow refreshing, but ultimately I’m not sure how it’s differentiating itself in a crowded field of AI tools.
Here’s a closer look at what I learned and everything teachers need to know about Superhuman Go.
What is Superhuman Go?
Superhuman Go is an AI assistant designed to work seamlessly across your desktop and other apps, available instantly as soon you open an email or start working on a writing project or lesson plan, etc. The tool is separate from Superhuman’s popular grammar and spellcheck tool, Grammarly, but was designed to have the same integration into your workflow.
Just as Grammarly checks your grammar and spelling without you having to think about it, Go is designed to provide seamless AI assistance, whatever you’re doing, and without you having to think about how you’re going to get AI to help, the company said recently.
For busy teachers this is a great feature, and I found that in terms of layout, Superhuman Go’s integration with Google Chrome was pretty smooth. For my purposes, however, its AI abilities weren’t a match for the latest GPT models from OpenAI and Gemini updates from Google.
What Can Superhuman Go Do?
Superhuman Go has an easy-to-access sidebar chatbot currently available in Beta form that can do a lot of what you’d expect from a chatbot. This is a plus, as it integrates nicely with whatever you happen to be doing. You also have the option of connecting it to various other apps you use, such as your email or calendar. This works fairly well, but many of these apps have their own AI tools built in now, and I didn’t find Go to provide much of an advantage.
I found some other disadvantages to the tool overall. For instance, Superhuman Go’s AI could not search the internet. So when I asked it to find a recent research paper, it wasn’t able to do that the way ChatGPT or Gemini would. This is definitely a flaw, though in fairness, Superhuman Go provided detailed instructions on how I might find this paper with specific database suggestions that were helpful. This was a reminder that always getting AI to do the work for me isn’t always the best approach. But the next time I found myself searching for a specific paper, I went straight to ChatGPT.
How Can Superhuman Go Help With Writing?
Before it rebranded as Superhuman, Grammarly was all about writing, and that remains a key feature for Superhuman Go. You can ask Go to proofread and/or react to work you’ve written, and it provides an in-built humanizer tool for AI writing.
In terms of user interface, this feature works really well. It’s easier to get AI advice on your writing or have AI write for you using Superhuman Go than other tools I’ve used, but as a writing instructor and person who values human writing, I don’t love these abilities.
Those concerns aside, I also found much of its writing advice to be a little flat and generic, and wouldn’t recommend it as a particularly helpful tool for students or for educators looking to strengthen their writing.
It also offers an Expert Review option that provides feedback based on the writings of expert writers, but that provided more of the same semi-generic advice.
Bottom Line: Is Superhuman Go Worthwhile For Educators?
If you are prioritizing easy integration into other apps with your AI use, then Superhuman Go might be worth trying.
Overall, however, I’m not convinced it has enough unique features to stand out in the crowded AI field. Yet, I was impressed enough with its interface to try it again once it leaves the beta phase.