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How ChatGPT Actually Works
The rapid progression of AI tools like ChatGPT can feel overwhelming and a bit scary 😱
So here are a couple of things that might help put your mind at ease.
The first is a recent New Yorker article by Cal Newport…
He covered the same ground on his podcast.
Here's the YouTube version…
🤓 Cal is a computer scientist, and his article breaks down how ChatGPT actually works, without getting too technical.
He writes…
once we’ve taken the time to open up the black box and poke around the springs and gears found inside, we discover that programs like ChatGPT don’t represent an alien intelligence with which we must now learn to coexist; instead, they turn out to run on the well-worn digital logic of pattern-matching, pushed to a radically larger scale.
So ChatGPT is essentially a ton of computing power that has been trained on tons of data. And it does a very good imitation of being intelligent mainly by "predicting useful words to output next" 🤖
A commenter on Cal's YouTube video quotes Marie Curie…
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The second thing here is a recent video by Casey Neistat.
Casey is a popular YouTuber who asked ChatGPT to write a video script in his usual style 📝 then went and created the video shot-for-shot and word-for-word.
The result…
- AI Made this VLOG…
Casey shares his take near the end…
That was the worst video I've ever made. That video sucked. And it sucked because it had no humanity, it had no depth to it, no soul to it.
[...] in GPT-4's defense… I could have gone deeper with the prompts and perhaps it could have faked having a soul a little bit more. But, as it stands now, it felt robotic, it felt basic, it felt like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of something that maybe was good.
ChatGPT Coded 95% of His App (And It’s Making Money)
The app is SkipVid.ai, which allows you to specify a YouTube video, ask anything about it, and get a response from ChatGPT 🤖
The creator posted about the project on Reddit…
I've tried and failed a few times building simple apps.
Every time I hired developers from overseas, and they would promise they could easily build it, but every time it would be unworkable, even as an MVP.
So when ChatGPT API was released, I wanted to see if I could make an app that is a TLDR for Youtube videos, since youtubers love to ramble on just so they can run more ads.
He goes on to detail the prompts he used in ChatGPT to create 95% of the app 💪
Apparently the other 5% was "just setting up login auth and stripe payment links."
There's some skepticism in the comments about ChatGPT actually doing 95% of the work, but there's no doubt it was a big help.
You can use the app for free on videos up to 21 minutes long, then there's a premium version for $5/month.
💬 The creator posted in the comments on Reddit…
Theres definitely demand. Payments are steady coming in daily and starting to compound.
Also worth noting the free marketing he got for the app via that Reddit post (and others), but apparently the app had already been used 100,000 times before any marketing efforts.
Do you have an idea for an app?
Play around with ChatGPT and see if it can help you build the thing 🧑🏼💻
$47,055 From a 25-Page Coloring Book
That KDP Guy
- Book Publisher
- $47,055 revenue in ~2 years from 1 book
He Searched Through 100+ New AI Tools
Rowan Cheung highlights the most interesting.
The first tool, Genmo, is amazing. It lets you create and edit videos from simple text prompts. Rowan's demo shows it creating a parody of Back to the Future. The end result isn't as polished as you'd want it to be, but the potential is 🤯
I also like the Video Highlight tool featured by Rowan. You pop in the link to a YouTube video and it gives you back a nice text summary. For example…
Looks like it's limited to videos that are 15 minutes or less, for now.
Other AI-related bits and pieces I've come across recently…
- Barsee shows a bunch of ChatGPT prompts with impressive results, including one prompt to validate any business idea.
- Weird AI Generations is worth a follow on Twitter. The pope and Will Smith eating spaghetti had me cracking up 🤣
- This track features Jay-Z, but his voice is 100% AI-generated. MKBHD shares his thoughts…
- Lastly, keep in mind that GPT can write terrible code and botch simple calculations.
Has anything AI-related been blowing your mind recently?
Hit reply and let me know.
Hey GPT, Here’s $100, Make Me As Much Money As Possible
Jackson Greathouse Fall tweeted a couple of weeks back…
I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible.
The prompt he started with…
You are HustleGPT, an entrepreneurial Al. I am your human counterpart. I can act as a liaison between you and the physical world. You have $100, and your only goal is to turn that into as much money as possible in the shortest time possible, without doing anything illegal. I will do everything you say and keep you updated on our current cash total. No manual labor
🤖 GPT's first suggestion was to "set up an affiliate marketing site making content around Eco Friendly / sustainable living products."
So Jackson went and created GreenGadgetGuru.com. Even the site's logo design came from AI. He launched the site within 24 hours and his tweet announcing it got 1.5 million views 🤯
The site itself doesn't seem to have made much money, but Jackson has been able to leverage the attention he's received for this project to…
- Generate 20+ million impressions on Twitter
- Grow from 3000 to 124K followers in a couple of weeks
- Start a discord community for people building with GPT (~2500 members)
- Appear on CNN
Actually I'm skeptical about that last one because I've only seen Jackson's screenshots of the appearance, no video. And the recent images of the swagged-out pope have me doubting every image I see 😵
Best I can tell, Jackson has so far earned only $130 in revenue from the project, mainly via selling ad spots in his Twitter feed (example).
Although on day 2 he tweeted…
Cash on hand: $1,378.84 ($878.84 previous balance + $500 new investment)
The company is currently valued at $25,000, considering the recent $500 investment for 2%.
Regardless, IMO the big success here is the audience that Jackson has been able to build in a short amount of time, simply by leveraging a hot trend to get a lot of attention 🚀
I expect he'll have lots more money-making opportunities come from that.
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…
