EP 42: ChatGPT Plugins: How to make them work for you

This is the Everyday AI show, the everyday podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business and everyday life. Will we see entire small businesses being run by chat GPT and plugins? I think it's very possible. That's one of the things that we're going to be talking about today on Everyday AI. This is your daily livestream, podcast and newsletter to help everyday people like you and me get the most out of AI to actually understand it and use it. So very excited today. Going to be taking a somewhat deep dive into chat GPT plugins. You've probably heard of them, maybe you've used them, maybe you haven't. You're going to want to stick around for today's conversation because if you do, I think the way that you do work can completely change for the better. All right, so before we jump into that, as a reminder, if you are joining live, please leave some comments, leave some questions. I am here for you. Everyday AI is to help everyday people learn AI. So this is for you. But before we talk plugins, let's quickly recap the daily AI news. That's something we do every single weekday, Monday to Friday. So let's take a look. So this was in our newsletter yesterday, but we didn't talk about it. I think it's important. So the Grammys is saying no to AI, but yes to AI content. That's very interesting to me and here's my take on it. So most of us have heard some of these AI generated songs. There was kind of the, the Drake in the Weeknd song and some of these songs are really good. So, you know, it's interesting that the Recording academy is not necessarily saying don't make this music, they're just saying that they're not going to give out Grammys to any sort of AI or AI generated content. So very interesting. Kind of our second news piece of the day, which kind of. I'm going to use this to tease the conversation for tomorrow, but IBM and Adobe are teaming up for more generative AI. So they've already had a long standing partnership, but they kind of renewed and doubled down on generative AI. So Adobe obviously has some of its own generative AI offerings, you know, text to image. And something that I think puts Adobe and now IBM in a unique position is I think Adobe is probably going to avoid copyright lawsuits because they are training on content that they have ownership rights to where other platforms. If I'm specifically talking here about text to image. So Some of those platforms, like, you know, Dolly from OpenAI Journey, they're trained on essentially the open Internet. So there's probably going to be a lot of lawsuits. I mean, there already are happening in those instances. So this IBM and Adobe partnership, doubling, doubling down on generative AI. Super important to see how this is going to play out. Also worth noting, you know, IBM specifically is investing so much time and resources into generative AI, but this is the same company that already said that they're going to replace or not hire about 8, 000 jobs because of AI. So we're going to be talking about how AI is impacting the job market on tomorrow's live stream and podcast. So make sure you tune in for that. One last but not least, before we get into chat GPT, some news is OpenAI is thinking about opening in AI app store. So that's different from plugins in the fact that this is geared more toward kind of apps built on top of the GPT technology and not necessarily plugins dedicated to the current Chat GPT, if that makes sense. So it's actually a great segue into plugins. So let's talk about Chat GPT plugins and I see we already have a couple of comments, so thank you all for tuning in. As a reminder, if you are listening to this on the podcast, check the show notes. We're going to be dropping a couple links in, so if you want to go through and read some of these comments or even leave a comment for me or just participate in the conversation, please do that. So I'm going to get to these comments, I promise you. But I want to just start by let's, let's try to share my screen here and I'll do my best to talk along if you are listening, you know, in the car or on a podcast or something like that. So let's talk plugins. Here we go. So before I do that, some of these slides, if you've been, I see some of the people in the, in the comments already have, have taken our PPP course. It's a free course, we don't sell anything. So if you want more information, we just revamped it actually. So drop PPP in the comments. I'll send you that information today. So maybe you've seen some of these slides, but most of you have not. So let's talk quickly about plugins, what they are and the difference between the free version and the paid version. So you are only going to get plugins with the paid version of ChatGPT Plus. So it's $20 a month. And there's vast differences between the free version and the paid version. But I'd say for the most part, the two biggest difference. I'll say the three biggest differences are you can browse the web. So, you know, you see this cutoff here. In free chat GPT, the cutoff is September 2021. So if you're looking to use ChatGPT for recent information or if things have changed, the free version of ChatGPT doesn't cut it. You've probably seen the message about the cutoff date, all that. So if you're properly using plugins and the Internet, because that's another capability, is you have browsing with Bing, kind of their OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership. So you have Bing browsing. So it essentially gets rid of that cutoff date. And you can literally be talking with Bing Chat GPT, the Pro version, about things that happened an hour ago, 30 minutes ago. If there's a website, if it's online, Chat GPT Pro, the Pro version has access to that. So there's some other minute differences, but I wanted to talk about that first because we're going to be talking about plugins. So if you have the Pro version, I'm going to show you how to use plugins. If you don't, just keep this in mind because in my opinion, the $20 is well worth it. All right, cool. I already see some, some PPPs. Cool. I'll make sure to send you all that information. So I wanna, I wanna just make a comparison here. Okay. So just, just put your, put your imaginary hats on with me. So let's say the Internet in terms of capabilities is the equivalent of a word processor. Okay. And then we say Chat GPT, let's just say the free version has the equivalency of Wikipedia and Google Docs. So again, we're imagining there's, that's obviously much more capable than just the Internet alone. Chat GPT is, I think, a revolutionary tool just for society, like at large. Right. It's changing everything from, you know, students and researchers to CEOs and how they're running their company. So I think it's a, it's a revolutionary tool or software. But I think when we go from ChatGPT to ChatGPT with plugins, that's like going from the Wikipedia and Google Docs to having an army of employees and supercomputers. It's not a joke, I think. And there's been many articles and we'll share that in our free daily newsletter, so make sure to sign up at your everyday AI dot com. But there's many articles that have looked in depth about what the Chat GPT plugin ecosystem just means, not just for society, but for, you know, at least the US economy as well. So I'm not going to get into that because we're already a couple minutes in and I want to talk, want to talk plugins here. So let's, let's do it. The moral of the story is pay the $20. I can't believe how many people I've talked to and I've had great conversations with who are using Chat GBT in their daily lives. And then I'll get a message and they'll say, hey, you know, listen to your podcast or saw, saw this in the newsletter. And I finally took the plunge. You know, I finally started paying for chad GPT the the plus edition. 20amonth pay the $20. Right? I'm not getting paid by chat GPT or by OpenAI to say that, but it will literally pay for itself in the first 20 hour that you use it because you can. This is not an exaggeration. With plugins you can easily 3x10x your output or your return on time investment. That's another thing I'm huge on is, you know, getting a positive return on the time. So let's get into it and actually why don't you, for those of you tuning in, thank you. Just leave me a quick yes or no or Y or n in the comments to let me know if you are currently using ChatGPT plugins. I'm interested for those of you participating with us live if you're using them. So let's talk. So if you do have the Pro version, it's plugins are not there by default. So on the screen here I'm sharing kind of how to do this. So you're going to want to go into your settings, you're going to have to go to the beta features and you're going to have to turn on the different modes. So there's browse with Bing, there's plugins, and then there's also something that I don't have access to, which is code interpreter. So they roll these out a little bit at a time. Also worth noting, not all countries have access to these at all times. You know, I've had some great conversations with everyday AI listeners that say, hey, it's been, you know, I've had the plus for months, but I still don't have plugins, so not sure why that is, but it's, it's coming eventually, so. And then you'll see on the right hand side here in this screenshot, you also need to choose your model. So if you do have the Pro plan and if you have enabled these plugins, you need to select there's the default GPT4, which is the paid version, and then there's the browse with Bing and then there's plugins. Okay? So in this scenario, the things that we're talking about, we're going to want to make sure you choose plugins. Also, when you start a new chat, it defaults to the default mode. So that's very important and I'm going to show you why. Here, here, in a, in a minute. So let's keep going. Like I said, there's more than plugins are not available in all countries and there's more than 450 plugins available. I checked last night. They're adding new ones daily. So some best practices to talk about and I'm going to show you some screenshots. Why you need to choose your plugins, you need to label them and then you need to train those chats up. All right, so more on that later. But it's important to talk about right away because if you're using a chat, you can't change the plugin, right? So let's say if you want to choose the different plugins that add all these functionalities and you're putting all of this information in a chat, that's very useful, you can't go back, you can't change it and you know, they only allow three plugins at a time. Also I should always say this, don't upload confidential or sensitive documents. You know, OpenAI does use this information to train their models. So you know, don't upload confidential information. There's been plenty of stories out there where companies have done that and gotten in trouble. Also, when you are using third party plugins, be aware of, of those, those plugins terms of service. A lot of these third party plugins, they require you to have accounts. Not all do, but some, some do. So be aware of how they use your data as well. As an example, a great plugin for ChatGPT is Zapier. Right? So you have to have a Zapier account. But also you should be aware of how Zapier is using your information. Especially if you're using this in an enterprise scenario or if you're, you know, the CEO of a small business, you probably want to know how your data is being used. Something important. Keep in mind also focus on daily utility when using plugins, not just the wow factor. Right. I think that's so easy because you'll, you'll see all these people that are using plugins and you'll just start to try to fit yourself or your business use case according to what they're doing. Don't do that. Look at how your, how your business is currently operating and see where you're spending the most time or see where you don't have the capabilities or the time to spend in those departments and then find those plugins that match up with those scenarios. All right? And I do see we have quite a few questions and I'm going to definitely get to those. So let's, let's keep going here. So here's a tip. So again, for those of you that took the PPP course, I kind of referenced this and again drop PPP in the comments. If you want access to this course, I'll send it to you. It's free, no upsells. But you can only have three active plugins per chat. So what we talk about doing is creating plugin packs. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna share some, some favorites and some examples. So again, you can't switch. So let's say you're, you're training one of these chats and you're putting in your website. Maybe you're uploading PDFs and you're getting it chat GPT to respond in, in your company's tone of voice. If you want to use a different plugin, you can't, you have to start over from scratch. So it's important to do your due diligence on the front end and to say, hey, these are the plugins that I need to use. So we call those plugin packs. Okay? And I'm going to give you some, some best examples. Our most used one at Everyday AI is this combination ready. So it's a web plugin, a PDF plugin and an agent. And an agent is essentially any certain role that you're doing for those tasks. But in most cases for us we will always use two out of those three plugin spots for web and PDF. So let me actually back up. So we very rarely will use the default web browsing version of, you know, kind of the Bing collaboration because if you choose that, it's great, don't get me wrong, but you can't use other plugins. You know, you, you, you don't have access to all of this other functionality. The, the browsing mode is only for browsing, nothing else and you can't switch. So there's plenty of great web plugins, so Web Pilot is, is probably the one that we use we use the most but try which one works for you. So we'll always, almost always have a web plugin, a PDF plugin and then like an agent plugin. So that'll vary depending on what we're using it for. But that's definitely kind of our our go to scenario. I would love to, you know, if you've already experimented, drop one of your favorite plugins in the comments here. You know, we'll probably share about some of these from, from, from the newsletter or also say like hey, what are you using it for? I'd love to see that. I'm actually going to take, take take a quick break here and I'm going to go through some of these questions now because I don't want you waiting until the end. And as you can tell this already might be a longer podcast today. So May Brit Shout out May Brit, one of our most loyal listeners asking really curious about chat, GPT plugins and mostly what is the top five plugins we should look into, example, marketing, content etc. So like I said, in most cases you're really only looking at that third open spot but kind of the ones that we use the most often. So I won't give our maybe I'll kind of give an impromptu top five so web pilot for browsing a PDF plugin called AI PDF and some other ones that we use and you know, experiment here and there. Zapier I think is going to be amazing. There's multiple plugins that will, you know, kind of draw you diagrams or to create charts and graphs based on data that you input. So it really maybe it really depends on, it really depends on what you're using it for, you know, even a top five plugin list. But I'll say top five has to be, you know, something for web browsing and something for PDFs regardless of what your use case is. Couple couple other questions left to us here. My main area of interest is PDF processing. It's great by the way, if you haven't signed up for our daily newsletter. I gave a couple of these PDF plugins a run the other day in a segment we have called AI in five. Definitely check that out if you haven't seen it. So the question is how is the token limit affected when you provide ChatGPT with a link to a PDF? That's a great question because all of These are limited by characters, so we talk about that in the PPP course. But essentially ChatGPT has a memory limit. So if you're feeding it information earlier in the chat and let's say you're using it twice a week and you have a chat for marketing for your business and you've uploaded all these documents after a certain number of characters, I don't have it up in front of me, but I know it's on that chart. So let me scroll back here quick. So about 6,000 words it's going to start losing. So what does count? Lefteris is anytime that characters are used in the chat. So if you say, hey, look at this PDF and if you're asking for one piece of advice, it's not going to use all of those tokens or all of those words. It's just what actually gets ChatGPT produces. I hope that makes sense. All right, let me get to a couple other questions here. Kathleen, thank you for joining. So Kathleen, saying, what's your favorite aspect of Chat GPT that you have tested out and benefited from? Definitely. Summarizing PDFs, summarizing YouTube videos, summarizing articles. I try to, personally, I try to learn as much as I can and I think that Chat GPT with plugins. Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on gen AI. Hey, this is Jordan Wilson, host of this very podcast. Companies like Adobe, Microsoft and Nvidia have partnered with us because they trust our expertise in educating the masses around generative AI to get ahead. And some of the most innovative companies in the country hire us to help with their AI strategy and to train hundreds of their employees on how to use Genai. So whether you're looking for ChatGPT training for thousands or just need help building your front end AI strategy, you can partner with us too. Just like some of the biggest companies in the world do. Go to your everydayai.com partner to get in contact with our team or you can just click on the partner section of our website will help you stop running in those AI circles and help get your team ahead and build a straight path to ROI on gen AI. It is probably the greatest learning tool, even more so than when the Internet was introduced. Right? I remember having to when I was writing reports growing up, having to, you know, go to the library and look things up in multiple, you know, Encyclopedia volumes, checking out books to find information. Even when the Internet came out. I think using Chat GPT with plugins is more powerful than when the Internet first came out. At least for me in terms of learning, education, research. I think it's, it's huge. Let me see if we have any other questions, otherwise I'm going to get back and go through here. Malvin, a great question. Can I transfer my chats from 3.5 to 4? So again, version 3.5 is the free version. It's very fast but again you have that cutoff at September 2021 and it's not that power. The Pro version also provides more depth and it's responsive. It's better at writing, it's better at taking commands. So again, 3.5 is the free version. 4 is the paid version. Short answer no, you can't. Your chats will be there still Malvin, if you upgrade but they'll be stuck, quote unquote, stuck in 3.5 mode. And I actually have a slide here for that. So I think that's a great, it's a great transition to the next one. But I want to quickly talk about a couple other. Just plug and pack examples so you can have an education plugin pack. So there's a plugin called Universal that summarizes different, different media Wolfram Alpha which is a great tool, it's advanced computation and there's another great one called Scholar AI which is peer reviewed paper. So again you can create these packs for certain, certain topics. So let's say you're working on a thesis or a long paper in school, you know you to create a plugin pack that has some of these different education based and then keep your chat in there. All right, let me. I know there's a couple other. I'm just going to skip, skip down so I can get back to Melvin's question. Can, can you transfer your chats? No. So as you'll see on the screen here and if you're not, let me describe it to you. If you are using the pro version, it is limited. I should have mentioned that in the beginning. It's limited to 25 messages every three hours. I hope they get rid of that. So you're, after you hit that cap if, if you've used Chat GPT plus pretty, pretty heavily like, like, like I have, you're going to see this message that says you can wait until you know, essentially your cap is lifted. So wait an hour, wait two hours, whatever it is or you can click that thing that says you this use the default model. I say this in the PPP course, never hit that button. No one on the Internet is talking about this. So I'll be the weird Chat GPT guy screaming from the porch. Don't click that. Because if you spent all this time in the Pro version and you have your plugins and you're really getting a chat to work for you and to create some amazing content, research whatever it may be, and then you click that use default model, you lose it all, it then defaults to 3.5 and at least as of today, you cannot switch back. So I hope that answers your question, Malvin. If not, go ahead, go ahead and drop me another comment. Jesse asking is there a plugin for smart email autoresponders? Technically, yes, there are. I think a better use case for this, Jesse, would be using a Chrome extension that, that's built specifically for this because otherwise you're just kind of creating some manual work because you would have to copy and paste an email into Chat GPT, get a response and then copy and paste that back. So in theory you could use Zapier and do it all. But it's, I think it's much easier and much more effective to get a return on your time investment to use a, a Chrome extension. Or, you know, I know, like, you know, if, if you're using Windows, they're actually having this built into the next version of Windows, but I think it's much better to do it in the native platform. Wherever you're emailing, it's going to save you more time. All right, we have a, we have a couple more. Allah has a question. Can I generate codes to build my own personal portfolio website using GPT? Yes, there's. I'm not going to say they're fantastic. And background on that. I have been building and developing and designing websites for, let me do the math, almost 25 years. So they're not great. But yes, literally from ChatGPT there's a handful of plugins where you have to have an account and set it up, but then you can create an actual fully working live website that you can deploy just from ChatGPT in a matter of minutes. So yes, you can. A la. Another question. What is the AP R I am plugin? So that's mainly used as a Chrome extension and that is a, a piece of software that expands the functionality of ChatGPT. So that's something we go through in our advanced PPP course, but there's a lot of different Chrome extensions so you can work within ChatGPT still that greatly expand its, its capabilities and powers. And these are kind of softwares built on top of the default chatgpt that I believe have like millions of users. So they're great. But that's, that's a whole nother discussion for another day. All right, let's, let's, let's keep going. I think I got to most of the comments. Thank you. If you're still here and still tuning in live, I just decided I'm going to do this. If you haven't jumped in on ChatGPT and cost is an issue, I'm going to pick one person, just drop a 20, you know, because it costs $20 a month. I'm going to pay for your one month of ChatGPT and also connect with you for an hour. So if you're listening on the podcast, make sure to check out the show notes. Go in, leave a comment in this, in the LinkedIn thread, which, which we always put in there. But let's keep going. So we're almost done here and then I'm going to ask for more questions. So if you have more questions, please leave them now. I hope this has been val, but a couple other things to talk about which we've kind of, kind of already mentioned. But again, it's so important that it's worth repeating. In plugins, you cannot switch modes, so you can't start browsing with Bing in one chat and switch over to plugins. And it's important that you can to know you can only have three plugins active. And let's say you start a chat with two, you can't add a third, and you can't swap them out either. So that's extremely important. Again, they all have to be installed individually, so that's important to know. So when you're searching for a plugin, I kind of have it up on my screen here, but you have to scroll all the way to the bottom and it's going to say, you know, add a plugin. And then you have to search through here and then you're going to click on install to install a plugin. And in a lot of cases it works just like that. In other cases, you may have to enable two factor authentication. You may have to log in. You know, ZAP is a great example. You'll see I have that installed. You have to make sure that you're logged into Zapier or it's not going to work. All right, I see a couple of comments. This is great, PJ saying I haven't bought the Paid version today I will. That's fantastic. So that is kind of the end, that's the end of our dive into Chat GPT plugin. So real quick I'm going to leave you with some kind of last words of advice and if you do have one more comment, now is the exact time to, to get it in. So I'm actually going to take this one now. Great question, Nancy. So Nancy's asking, it seems like a plug in course is a good follow up to the PPP course. What do you think? Yes, exactly. So again drop in the comments Nancy, shout out. I know you've already taken the course. So we are going to be launching the kind of the pro version of that where we go much deeper into plugins. The hope is to do that in July. So we have these kind of again free, not selling anything at the end PPP course which is prime, prompt and polish. That's just how you should be using Chat GPT. So we do those fairly often. But yes we are going to have that, the more advanced kind of pro version of that launching in July for those that have gone through the, the normal ppp. Jesse, thank you for the comment saying outstanding presentation. Absolutely looking forward to having you in the PPP course. So kind of my, my parting thoughts are this. Plugins I think are going to change the way businesses done. That's kind of how I opened up the show. I do think you can run almost hands off an entire small business or a department. You can run it in Chat GPT with plugins if you know what you're doing. You might need multiple accounts in doing so because you're going to hit that 25 message cap pretty quickly. And we have a lot of, a lot of other tips in the PPP course that help you get the most out of you know, plugins and just you, you know, the paid membership. But the advice is this, if you haven't used Chat GPT plus again I'm not getting paid to say this. You are missing out. You are missing out on extreme productivity. You are missing out on expanding your output exponentially. You are missing out on being able to accomplish things that you could not do on your own. That's the great thing. You know even just as a quick example, you know, having multiple diagramming plugins inside of Chat GPT I'm, I'm not great at making diagrams. Love data. But the ability to take just about any data, whether it's your own spreadsheet or data that's publicly available on the Internet, the ability to within ChatGPT create a diagram or a chart out of that data in seconds. That's literally could be someone's job. That could be, you know, if, if you work in data analytics or if you're looking to expand that part of your business and you don't have anyone, you can pretty much just use ChatGPT, you know, learn how to do it, get good at it. And it can, it can literally almost replace that. All right, I see, I see the first, the first 20 comments. So thank you. That is it. 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