GPTs and Our Future?

🍥 Life

Hi friend! How’s it going??

I’ve been in Austin these past few weeks in an accelerator called Antler and it’s been amazing. I met a lot of interesting people in different fields.

The way I ended up here is pretty crazy. A friend of mine introduced me to one of the partners at Antler and just said that it’ll be good to chat. We chatted for 10 minutes and he asked if I just wanted to come to Austin and do the accelerator. I asked when it started and he said “tomorrow”. 😅

Anyways I felt like it must be fate so I tied up some loose ends in SF, said yes, and came to Austin 2 days later…

Wish me luck on the pitch last week of November? 🥺

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🌻 Things I learned

I’m sure you’ve already heard about OpenAI’s new announcements. If you haven’t, OpenAI released this new feature called GPTs where you can create custom versions of ChatGPT that combines custom instructions, knowledge, and combinations of different skills.

Quick Tutorial 👇

After clicking the Explore button on the top left hand side you should get to the GPTs page. You do need to have a paid version of ChatGPT to access GPTs.

You can use the different GPTs that OpenAI and other people have made or create your own. You can see I already have a GPT called SlideCraft that I was using to create my pitch deck. :)

Let’s click Create a GPT and make a new one tho! How about a GPT that is able to summarize a book and give suggestions for how to apply it to your life?

GPT Builder helps you build it!

It’ll then ask you a few more questions including what you want to call it (Book Insighter) and the profile picture. It also gives you some starter questions.

So I’ve been meaning to negotiate a sponsorship deal. You know those 60 second integration that youtubers have in their videos? I’m going to refer to my favourite negotiation book “Never Split the Difference” and ask it to give me some tips for the negotiation.

Here’s my prompt!

The response:

shall I report back?

Now let’s try something else out! I have Poetics by Aristotle as a PDF downloaded. I’m going to give Book Insighter the PDF format and tell it to summarize it.

you can give it external inputs and also information for its knowledge bank.

Now draw a picture of Aristotle reading poetics in a bed of daisies.

beautiful

You can also add in more functionalities to your GPT in addition to web browsing, DALL-E image generation, and code interpreter. These are called Actions. For example, you can give it access to specific datasets or the ability to draw visual mind maps of the book summaries.

One more thing. They also released the Assistants API which is basically the API version of GPTs that you can programmatically do things and imbed it in your apps etc.

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What does this all mean?

These GPTs are not necessarily innovative in themselves compared to what OpenAI has already released. For those of you that have played around with OpenAI’s API before, it’s basically just a prettier version of a system prompt and you can give it custom added functionalities like with plugins. But, for non-power users, this can be a game-changer because it allows everybody to have access to well designed chatbots. It helps the average user get more out of ChatGPT.

But what’s interesting is how OpenAI positions these GPTs. They are part of OpenAI’s strategy to slowly introduce AI agents to the world.

Autonomous AI agents refer to artificial intelligence systems that can operate independently without human intervention. These agents are designed to make decisions and perform actions based on their programming, algorithms, and the data they perceive from their environment.

What DALL-E thinks a customer service autonomous agent looks like

Autonomous AI agents will have applications such as:

Autonomous Vehicles: Navigation systems that are capable making decisions independently

Healthcare: Patient monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment

Manufacturing and Logistics: Manage production lines, inventory, and supply chains

Customer Service: Chatbots and virtual assistants that can handle customer queries and provide information

I have a feeling that Sam Altman will give us about a year or so before he releases fully autonomous AI agents. 🤔

All of this will eventually lead into fulfilling OpenAI’s core mission: to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

AGI possesses the ability to understand, learn, and apply its intelligence to a wide range of problems. It can theoretically perform any intellectual task that a human can do.

who’s your favourite AGI?

There’s a lot more I want to talk about but I’ll leave it for now so this newsletter doesn’t become 20 pages long. 😅 Lmk if you’re interested in me making a full video about this tho!

Btw I still absolutely stand by my opinion that if there’s anything you should be learning right now, regardless of your current occupation, it’s how to work with AI. Make sure that it’s being applied in a way that benefits humanity PLEASE. For those of you who are programmers or interested in the field, there is so much opportunity in developing/integrating AI software. 🤯🤯

Probably where to start is building GPTs.

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P.S. All constructive feedback is greatly appreciated :)

-Tina