ChatGPT Plugins: The Next Gold Rush?
A few days ago, OpenAI announced "initial support for plugins" in ChatGPT…
Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
It's not available to everyone yet but there is a waitlist you can sign up for 📝
There's an amazing video demo of a plugins use-case on this page, starting with the prompt…
Looking to eat vegan food in San Francisco this weekend. Could you get me one great restaurant suggestion for Saturday and a simple recipe for Sunday (just the ingredients)? Please calculate the calories for the recipe using WolframAlpha. Finally order the ingredients on Instacart.
The plugins in that use-case are WolframAlpha and Instacart.
So it looks like ChatGPT has the potential to become Zapier on steroids.
Liv Boeree tweeted about this "unfathomably powerful update," and Elon Musk replied that it is "extremely concerning" 😱
Those fears aside, ChatGPT plugins will surely open up plenty of money-making opportunities.
Fireship on YouTube speculates…
What we might be seeing here is the birth of a next generation app store. If that's true, there's going to be a huge opportunity for developers to get in early, just like when the Apple App Store opened in 2008.
If you're not a developer, you could still become a ChatGPT consultant, helping companies leverage the power of this technology to improve their operations.
Your business would be along the lines of that of Sami Abid, who I profiled a few weeks back. He earns $6000/month as a freelance automation manager, using low- and no-code apps like Airtable, Notion and Zapier.
ChatGPT sounds like the next level for this kind of service 🚀
Irish Lad Clones His Voice With AI, Tricks His Parents
Check the 6-minute video on YouTube 👀
It shows CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan calling his parents in Ireland and having a conversation with them using an AI-generated voice.
Donie concludes…
My parents knew something was off, but ultimately, they still fell for it.
Scary to think that scammers could clone your voice – via audio of you posted online somewhere – then call up your loved ones and ask them to send money to "your" bank account or something 😱
But of course there are also some exciting applications of this technology.
For example, here's a video where someone uses software called Descript to clone his own voice and read out a video transcript generated by ChatGPT 🤖…
Skip to the 4:20 mark to hear the cloned voice. It's impressive.
Related…
Incredible Things People Are Already Doing With GPT-4
GPT-4 was released a few days ago.
That's the newest AI language model from OpenAI, a step up from GPT-3 🤖
It's also what powers ChatGPT: "If ChatGPT is the car, then GPT-4 is the engine" (source)
On Twitter, Linus Ekenstam is keeping track of "some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4."
🤯 Some mind-blowing stuff there, such as…
- Recreating classic video games like Pong and Snake in seconds
- One-click lawsuits
- Turning a hand-drawn sketch into a functional website
- Drug discovery
- Find issues in a live Ethereum contract
- Evaluating compatibility between dating profiles
- GPT-4 passing all kinds of exams (The Bar, LSAT, etc.)
Another example comes from Jake Browatzke…
Holy crap! With GPT-4's help and no previous coding experience I just made my first Google Chrome extension in a few hours.
GPT-4 walked me step by step thru the entire creation process, writing the code and fixing all errors that came up.
It's a silly extension that translates the text of any webpage into "Pirate Speak" ☠️
But it shows the epic potential of this technology.
David DiBartolomeo responded to Jake's example with a more practical one of his own…
I built a chrome extension keyword finder. Enter a command prompt keyword and it grabs the top google search keywords! I will advance this and end my $200 per month software system subscription in order to run more lean! Awesome stuff!
Launched an App 3 Months Ago, Sold it for $65,000
Nico Jeannen
- Founder of MakeLogo.ai
- $65,000 from sale of MakeLogo.ai
Slack App in 90 Minutes Using ChatGPT
Harry @WeeklyMVP tweets that he built this Slack app in 90 minutes with some help from ChatGPT…
Warmup your Slack community.
Use our /cosy-all Slash command to get a list of all public messages that haven't been replied to, so you can keep your community engaged and save time.
Harry writes…
Crazy what a non-developer can hack together with ChatGPT and a Google Sheet in an afternoon 🏗️
Reminds me of the functionality another non-developer added to WordPress a few weeks back with the help of ChatGPT.
It's becoming increasingly easy to create little tools and plugins like these without any coding skills.
Create them for your own business or offer it as a service to others 🧑🏼💻
He Built This Site in 8 Hours and Sold it for $2500
Simon Purdon
- Serial Entrepreneur
- $2500 sale price of gift ideas website
Turning AI Handbags Into Real Physical Products
About a week ago, @zeng_wt posted some art on Twitter.
Specifically, they were photos of fancy-looking handbags 👛 created by these AI tools…
Now Zeng is planning to turn those designs into real handbags using DreamBox.ai 🤖
The DreamBox.ai pitch…
Design with AI, share on our platform, and earn royalties – all in one place. We handle production and delivery so you can focus on creating.
Looks like it's still early days for this concept, but I could see it going far.
Could you create some AI art that would sell well as a physical product? 🤔
$8000/Month From 100% AI Content?
Matt Diggity
- Serial Entrepreneur
- $8,000 revenue from AI-generated content website
ChatGPT: A Double-edged Sword for Article Writers
Anne Moss – the lady with the $180,000/month blogging machine – writes about her (mis)adventures using ChatGPT to generate content for her niche websites.
In short, she couldn't trust the information it provided. It made up entire news stories and fabricated details of real stories 🤷♀️
That's not to say ChatGPT is useless for creating content.
Anne loves using it for…
- Brainstorming and ideation
- Tweaking titles and subject lines
- Improving her writing style
- Creating general sections in articles
But…
it’s not a good solution for writing whole articles – especially not articles about very specific topics. It can easily trick you into thinking it can do that, but you could end up with an article that’s lacking or just plain wrong.
Related: why Anne is moving away from her longtail content strategy
Hey ChatGPT, Can You Help Me Build An App?
Packy McCormick shares some "wild" screenshots of ChatGPT prompts.
The initial prompt…
Can you help me build an app that takes links to essays and produces 10 bullet summaries using GPT-3?
First ChatGPT comes back with 5 steps for building the app.
Packy then gets it to write the code in Python and troubleshoot errors 🤯
Related:
9 ChatGPT Prompts To Skyrocket Your SEO
The guys from Authority Hacker have a detailed video about this 👇
It's clear that ChatGPT does a lot to level the playing field when it comes to SEO, but the video also addresses some of the limitations.
Btw, my favorite use of ChatGPT for SEO is to simplify content.
For example, ask it to explain SEO and I get back something like this…
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, it is the practice of optimizing a website to improve its ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs) and increase its visibility to potential users. The goal of SEO is to make a website more attractive to search engines, to help it appear at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords and phrases, and to drive more traffic to the site.
Then I ask it to explain SEO to me like I'm 5 years old 👦 and I get back…
Okay, imagine you want to find a toy in a big toy store. You ask the storekeeper where it is and they help you find it. That's like a search engine helping you find what you're looking for on the internet. SEO is like making sure the toy store knows exactly where your toy is and making it easy for the storekeeper to show it to you. That way, when someone is looking for a toy like yours, the storekeeper can easily show it to them and they'll be able to find it easily. So SEO is about making your website easy for search engines to understand and easy for people to find.
You can use this to create a first draft of new content, or to understand something better yourself.
Related videos…
- Income School: Chat GPT - SEO and Blogging Will Never Be The Same…
- Matt Diggity: How ChatGPT has changed SEO forever…
This AI is Better Than 50% of Human Coders
Shelly Fan writes…
DeepMind’s new coding AI just trounced roughly 50 percent of human coders in a highly competitive programming competition.
When challenged with the CodeContest—the battle rap torment of competitive programming—the AI solved about 30 percent of the problems, while beating half the human competition.
But don't worry, coders are not about to become extinct…
It’s also unlikely the AI will take over programming completely, as its code is riddled with errors. But it could take over mundane tasks or offer out-of-the-box solutions that evade human programmers.
However, this should make you think twice about learning to code 🤔
ChatGPT is apparently nowhere near as powerful as DeepMind and yet it can already write handy code blocks for you based on simple prompts (example).
Personally, I think the smart move these days is to learn how to leverage powerful no-code tools rather than learning how to code.
What do you think?
Using GPT-3 To Get Ahead Of The Competition
Jon Khaykin came up with a clever way of leveraging GPT-3 to spot business opportunities 💡
Using "dog treats" as an example, his process looks like this…
- Scrape the URLs of existing dog treat products on Amazon
- Scrape all the customer reviews of those products
- Keep only the 1- and 2-star reviews
- Feed those reviews into GPT-3
Then prompt GPT-3 with the following…
Goal: Start a new dog treat business on Amazon
Request: Give me 5 things I should focus on in order to get ahead of the current competition
GPT-3 came back with some solid recommendations 😎
Jon reckons you could do something like this for competitors listed on any popular review site, such as Yelp, Google Maps, Capterra or G2.
You could also…
Use this framework to offer a SaaS to other businesses (e.g. monitor your competitors and figure out how to beat them with better features) 🤔
4 Years Of Nothing, Now $2000/Month
Kamban The Maker
- Software Entrepreneur
- $2000+ monthly recurring revenue from Elephas
How to Get Rich With Artificial Intelligence
Alex Hormozi with an 18-minute video on this topic 🤖
Through the first 16 minutes he puts AI into context and predicts some use-cases.
Paraphrasing…
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Ben Tossell asked for AI predictions and got some interesting responses.
Including:
- AI inside Google Sheets
- Lots of spam and low quality content
- ChatGPT gets banned in schools
- A flood of artists will use AI tools
- Fully driverless cars become viable
One of those predictions was written by AI, btw 😜
My favorite prediction comes from Justin Brooke…
The future of AI isn’t big tools like Jasper, it’s all of us having our own personalized AI writers. Trained to write in our voice, for our niche, directly connected to our social profiles & CRMs.
Roko’s Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment?
Speaking of AI, there's something called Roko's Basilisk, which Slate refers to as "the most terrifying thought experiment of all time" 😱
As Rational Wiki describes it…
Its conclusion is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future might retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being.
Practical AI Newsletter
My favorite new newsletter is called Practical AI 💌
A FREE weekly newsletter about AI and its applications and implications on business for non-technical business professionals and managers.
Some cool stuff I found in the first few editions 👇
- 3 robot humanoid sisters, one of whom was granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia.
- This guy made a complete children's book using AI, and the world of writers and illustrators is pissed.
- Video: incredibly realistic Morgan Freeman deepfake...
Related: Now there's AI to detect AI
Diving Into The Crazy New ChatGPT
Travis Jamison has a good write-up on the latest AI craze, with lots of impressive examples.
ChatGPT can write poetry, do your copywriting, provide recipes, replace your lawyer, find bugs in code, write new code, plan your PR campaign, and probably make an excellent toasted cheese sandwich 😜
And some folks are saying it's "the single biggest threat to Google Search."
I tested it out with a couple of questions related to making money online…
- What is the best way to make money online?
- How can I make $100 online today?
The answers I got back were surprisingly level-headed.
