A Guide to ChatGPT's Updates - iOS App, Plugins, and Web Browsing

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Chat GPT is the number one iPhone app in the world, and it's kind of a flop. So that's one of the things that we're going to be talking about today on Everyday AI, your daily livestream, podcast and newsletter, going over everything that's happening in the world of AI to help everyday people like you and me, not just keep up with what's going on, but to actually make use of it. All right, so today you're in for not really a treat. It is just me. So first, shout out to all of the guests that joined me this week. But today it's going to be you and I. So if you are listening live on LinkedIn or wherever else you may be, please join us. Drop a comment we're talking today about a lot of things, but mainly we're going to be talking about Chat GPT, the new iOS app, and some huge updates to ChatGPT as well. So before we get into that, let's first talk about what's happening in the world of AI news and why it matters to all of us. So first, I think this is an incredible story. So the New York City public schools lifted a ban on ChatGPT and encouraged its use. Okay, let me, let me cut straight to the point. So if you read our newsletter yesterday, there was a story in there about a college professor that essentially failed everyone because this professor thought that all of you know, his or her students cheated on the exam and used a false method of asking Chat GPT saying like, hey, here's, you know, my students text from their paper they turned in. Is this from ChatGPT? And obviously it was all false. It was all wrong. So, um, so for whatever reason, academia has been pushing away from AI Chat GPT, everything else, which I don't think they should. If I was a college professor right now, I would change completely what is required. I would say there's a paper every single day you come into the class, there's going to be a five page paper due in that one hour, you are going to be forced to not only use Chat GPT or Bard or Bing Chat, but you're also going to have to learn how to fact check and make sure that everything coming out of there is correct. And you're going to have to learn and learn a little faster. So I love this story that New York City has lifted the ban one of the first major public institutions to come out and publicly support ChatGPT and AI. So shout out New York City, Chicago, CPS. That's, that's where I'm from. Waiting, waiting on you. Uh, let's get chatgpt in the classroom. Uh, so number two news story of the day, Meta. So Facebook parent company is coming out with its own chip. So what does that even mean? Uh, let's talk about it. Uh, number one, something to keep in mind. Always watch what big companies are saying, what they're releasing and what happens to their stock price. You know, when Meta announced that they're going to start creating physical chips, stock price soared. You know, look at, look at their seven day stock price. Gerald, happy, happy to have you. You know, tuning in today. Can't wait for the AI summit hit up in the comments. You know, Gerald, will, will share a link to that. So let's get back to Apple or sorry, I'm sorry Metta and their chips and what that means. They're creating a custom hardware chip that is going to accelerate their AI algorithms. You know, this is one of Meta's first big steps in the computing space. So they, you know, they have, obviously their, Meta has their, their headset, all of those things, but this is one of their first steps in kind of the computing space. So it's going to be very interesting to see what happens from this announcement. Are other companies going to use their chip? Is their chip going to be better? You know, obviously Apple over the past couple of years has started to develop its own chips, you know, the M1 and M2 chip. So this is going to be interesting because also, and I'll try to break this down for the everyday person, I'm sorry, I have my dork hat on, but a lot of these new generative AI technologies. So generative AI is when you can generate something, you know, text in chat, GPT and image in mid journey, video in Runway. So it requires an insane amount of computing power. So there's a certain kind of chip called the gpu. So it's a very powerful, there's very powerful chips that are required to run essentially artificial intelligence. So you know, companies now, you know, there's, there's been like two or three companies, your Nvidia, your IBM's, they're the ones they, they can't make these chips fast enough. So I think this, this Meta news is pretty huge. That saying they're, they're going to start making their own, their own chips. So Ankush anchors dropping a comment. So thank you, if you're watching live, especially when it's just me, it makes it so much, so much more entertaining both for myself and for everyone else when you drop a comment. So, yeah, Ankush is talking about telling his students to use Chat GPT or whatever. Thank you. Please push that, push, push that in. AI education, everyone. Isabel, good morning. So let's, let's get to the last two news pieces of the day and then we're going to dive into a little bit on this chat GPT, the number one iOS app in the world as of the last 24 hours. So our last two pieces, we have two Apple news pieces. And so this is interesting. So in, in contrast to the New York City public schools saying let's use Chat GPT, Apple reportedly has now restricted employees from using ChatGPT over fear of data leaks. Makes sense in some regards. Also, it's very, I don't know if I should say concerning or maybe it's just intriguing that so many of these big companies have not yet developed their own internal LLM, you know, a large language learning system. So to have their internal chatgpt, right? You can create your own internal version of this using, you know, open source software, you know, and create your own kind of version of a Chat GPT trained on your own company documents. Right. So there is a way you can restrict it. So, you know, when I see stories like this, huge companies banning Chat GPT, I do get it, because the way it works right now, until ChatGPT releases kind of which, which they did talk about having the ability to have private kind of chats with, you know, their Chat GPT system. But until they release that, it's. I'm still very intrigued why huge companies aren't just creating their own. It doesn't take a ton of time. And then you can close off the data. Because how you use Chat GPT right now, everything you put in there, again, someone, if you're smarter than me, correct me, fact check me here. But ChatGPT or OpenAI, the parent company, uses that data to learn. So they're not necessarily, you know, publicizing that data. But, you know, as you talk back and forth, you know, if you put in an internal company memo and then you say, hey, help me summarize this, and the first summary isn't good enough. And you go back, it's using that learning about, talking about your document to improve the future Chat GPT experience. So, you know, when you do upload something to Chat GPT, they are using it to help learn better in the future. So Apple says no to ChatGPT. But last news story of the day, Apple is saying yes to voice cloning. Someone, if, if you're watching this, drop me a comment because I'm very. This is a polarizing topic to me. So Apple is releasing voice cloning. Apparently it's going to be out later this year. Yes, actually voice cloning. So you essentially are going to Talk for about 15 minutes and record audio on your iPhone or iPad. And it's. Apple is going to learn enough to be able to clone your voice. Right. Nothing new. There's great companies out there that do this. So you have 11 labs, you know, some other great text to speech and you know, kind of speech to speech. Different companies out there really pushing this in the AI space. But I'm not sure about this Apple piece making this technology available to the everyday person. I don't know how I feel about it. Obviously Apple is promoting and pushing the benefits to this, you know, so they're saying that there's, you know, there's obviously, you know, diseases and conditions where, you know, people may start to lose their voice or to lose their, their ability to, you know, just cognitive function and put together thoughts. So that is the positive use case. And don't get me wrong, I do think that's an amazing use case for this technology. You know, you know, if you think of a loved one and maybe they're losing their ability to speak for whatever reason or cognitively, yes, it might be nice to have that voice cloning feature. However, this is one of those instances where I think the ability for misinformation far outweighs the potential benefit. You know, presumably, you know, Apple hasn't released all of the details. Presumably this will be highly secured. I would hope, I would hope that you have to, you know, use a, you know, face ID and a combination of a password in order to create something. You know, I can see a lot of bad uses for this. Right. You know, there's already been so many stories about how this voice cloning technology that's been out for years, you know, I mentioned 11 Labs is one of them. But you know, there's scams that are, that are running where, you know, people are cloning people's voices. You know, because here's the thing, if you wanted to right now, I don't want to say this because someone could do it, you know, this everyday AI show we go live every day, you could go through and, you know, download my voice and, you know, get it just right to mimic or copy my voice. I know that there are certain scripts you have to read, but it can be done. There's, there's workarounds. But I, I still don't feel great about this because I do think that this is going to lead to a lot of scams, a lot of misinformation. You know, even if you, you know, you could steal someone's phone and if you know their passcode, you could get that person's voice to say anything you wanted. So maybe, maybe I'm being a little too scared about it. Eric says he likes voice mimicking for personal use, but would want it to be 100% local. Absolutely. I do believe at least the initial reporting Eric is saying that this is local. I would hope that this is not something you could do cloud based by logging onto your Apple iCloud account online. I would hope it's only on your local phone. Carrie, Former guest Carrie, what's up? So Carrie saying, I wonder if that would be a decent application for distributed ledger identity verification. Carrie, you're obviously way smarter than me. I am not 100% sure what the ledger identity verification is. So you'll, you'll have to drop me another comment. But again, I want to get into the Chat GPT news, but a lot going on today with, with the big companies, you know, Chat GPT, meta, Apple, it's going to be fascinating to follow along. So let's get into what, what we started with. So talking about Chat GPT. So they just released less than 24 hours ago their official iOS app and it is the number one app in the world. And hotcake, I think it's kind of a flop. So let me tell you why. But first let me just go a little bit into some of the background here so hopefully everyone can, can understand this. So I'm going to go ahead and bring up a couple, a couple of screenshots here. So if, if you're listening to this on the podcast later, I'm going to do my best to describe it to you. But for those of you joining, joining live, you can see here. So this right here is a chart showing kind of search demand for ChatGPT app. And you can see it exploded yesterday. You know the, the daily search volume went up about 10x almost, almost 10x yesterday. So there's other quote unquote, I'm using air quotes if you're listening on the podcast. There's other Chat GPT apps out there, but they are not the official one. So the one that was released just less than 24 hours ago is from OpenAI. It is the official app from OpenAI which brings the power of Chat GPT to your iPhone. So this is the start of the story we're going to see. Okay, there's demand. Great. Okay, so now let's, let's talk about before we get into why I think that the iPhone app, at least as it is now, is not that great. We need to explain what else has recently happened with Chat GPT. Okay, so bringing up a new, a new screen here. So Chat GPT for the pro plan. So you have to be paying 20amonth to get access to this, but they have slowly, I think they announced this last Friday, so it's been one week. So if you are on a paid plan by now, you should have access to these, to these beta features. So hot tip right now, these things don't get enabled by default. A lot of people didn't know that. There was people confused on Twitter, other places saying, hey, where is it? You have to go into your settings. So that's what I have up here on the screen. You have to go into your settings, click on beta features and you may have one of these, you may have both, you may have three. Um, I'm still waiting for the code interpreter, but as you can see on the screen here, you can enable web browsing and you can enable plugins. Why does this matter? Number one, if you do not enable these or if you have the free version of Chat GPT, it is only trained through September 2021. So if you want to know something recent, you don't have it. It like it's knowledge base as a LLM large language model cuts off at 2021. So step number one for ChatGPT. As we talk about the differences and why I don't think the iOS app is great right now, you have to enable these beta features. Okay, so next, another screenshot here. Once you do that, it's still not going to work by default. This is very important. I've seen so many people get confused about this. I was even talking to someone yester who had access to this, but they didn't know that they had to enable it again from the dropdown. So you'll see here when you log on to Chat GPT plus if you're a paid subscriber, it always defaults to what's called GPT 3.5, which is fast, it's unlimited, it was called Turbo previously. So there's different models. Okay, so you're going to want to make sure to go to chat GPT4. But even from there, even after you go and enable the plugin to the web browsing, it's not going to enable it by default. So you can only choose one of these two at a time. And I'm actually going to hit pause right there because number one, I need a drink of water. But number two, please, if you are watching live right now, go to your everydayai.com, sign up. For our newsletter, we're going to be announcing a video series. It's going to be free, uh, you just need your email to log in. So we're going to be going over a lot of what I'm talking about now, but in a little more depth. So if you want to check that out, please go to your everydayai. Com. 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All right, so after you have to choose between browsing and plugins, you can't choose both. And I'll get into a little bit about what that means here. All right, so even after that, so let's say you want to use plugins. So plugins are third party applications that really help bring in new functionality for Chat GPT, I say it kind of like this. Plugins for ChatGPT allow it to become more of an actual assistant because you can connect to other third party services and actually do things. So, you know, as an example, there's plugins for Open Table, so you can actually type into Chat GPT say, hey, I'm from Chicago, so hey, I want rest, I want reservations tonight, Friday night in Chicago, 7:30, Italian Place, you know, kind of fancy, not too expensive. It's going to give me options. I say this one and it books it. My reservation's done. You have to connect to your account. Right. But that's what a plugin does. It brings a whole new level of functionality without ever having to leave the Chat GPT interface. But sorry, that was a, that was a setup there. So now on the screen here, even after you enable plugins or switch to plugin mode, you have to enable individual plugins, okay? So you have to quote, unquote, install them. And another caveat, something important to understand is you can only have three enabled at once. I hope that changes. One other point to talk about is you cannot directly talk to plugins. So Chat GPT is essentially going to say, hey, based on this query, we think it's going to be best if you use this plugin. So there's a, you know, a browsing plugin. There's, you know, like I said, Open Table, Zillow. There's a lot of great ones. There's stock market ones all over the place. But if you ask a question and it says, okay, I think this is going to be best for this plugin, then it will use that plugin if you haven't enabled. A little tricky again. We'll be doing tutorials for those, so, so make sure you go sign up. Thank you, Deb. I'm glad. This is great info. Yeah, I know we're already a little over, but we're going to keep going with it since, since we have people tuned in. If you have questions about the Chat GPT iOS app, let me know. I promise this is about the app. I really just had to lay the groundwork for why I don't think it's great right now. Because all of these things, right? Finally getting to it now. All right, so. So now on my screen, I'm finally sharing a Screenshot of the iOS app. It works, it's fast, it's great. But here's why I think it's not that great right now. Even if you are A plus subscriber, at least at the time of this everyday AI live, you do not have access to plugins or browsing. So if you're a free chat GPT user, you're not going to know a difference. This may be the best thing since sliced bread. Also before sliced bread, like why, like how did you eat it? Just, Sorry, you just eat it like a. Eating an apple. I'm not sure. So right now on the screen I have an example. I'm asking the chat GPT iOS app what happened in the stock market this week and what does it mean for the everyday investor? And I get, you know, the response that says, hey, you know, I don't know anything past September 2021. So even though I am a paid subscriber and I have access to this information when I use it on my desktop, the app does not have it. To me, that automatically makes it not very useful. So you're probably saying, jordan, well hey, having something is better than nothing, right? Well, let me tell you a little hack, all right? If you want Chat GPT on your phone and you want it to be super smart and you want it to know and understand everything, just use it in your mobile browser. So now I have a screenshot asking the exact same question. I'm logged into just on, on my iPhone. So you know, mobile Safari. And you can see at the top here I have plugins enabled. So I have a news plugin enabled, the browsing plugin and one other here. So I asked the same question, what happened in the stock market this week and what does it mean for the everyday investor? And at least I have the screenshot here and it, you know, I scrolled. It's actually great, it's great advice, right? Like what it gave me with these plugins enabled was up to date information this week, not this month. And it was actually very informative. If I wanted to get that level of information, I probably would have had to read at least four or five different news articles. So this took, you know, it takes a little longer. It probably took about 20 to 30 seconds to. To generate. Deb, I absolutely agree. This was an aha moment. Like use it on mobile, right? So don't get me wrong, I did see some people kind of not roasting, but just being like, hey, this is great chat GPT but it's actually limiting the capabilities. So personally I'm a little surprised that they released this without access to browsing capabilities and plugins. And here's the reason. It's not like this is new, it's not like, you know, there's actually been. And we'll try to Link this in the newsletter. Today there's been a handful of other Chat GPT apps. So you can essentially use their API and create your own app, you know, and you incur the cost, but you kind of pass those costs to whatever users. But there's been a handful of other ChatGPT apps in the App Store for months. Go, go look them up. And a lot of them have been making millions. That's with an S millions of dollars since they released. So again, there's already been options out here. So I am a little bit surprised that Chat GPT released this app. It's number one in the world, which is no surprise. But hot tip guys. This is why our team spends hundreds of hours a month diving into all of these things. AI to save you time. So if you're on your phone and if you want to get the most out of Chat GPT, do not use the app for now. Just download or sorry, just, just use it on your mobile Safari. You can even save it to your home screen. So it actually looks and functions like an app. On my first page on my home screen, I have the Chat GPT app. I click it, it opens it just like this. Just what you see on the screen here, you're not pinching and zooming. It's very great on mobile. It's responsive, it's fast. Check it out. So thank you for sticking with us. We went a little over time. As another reminder, if you're hearing all this and you're like, this seems cool to be able to use this on my phone in mobile Safari. And to get all of this up to date information, please go to your everyday I.com Sign up for the newsletter will tell you how you can win a year long subscription. So that is it for today. So I'd say I'll see you tomorrow and every day on Everyday. But I won't see you tomorrow. 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