EP 70: Free ChatGPT vs. ChatGPT Plus - What's the difference?

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Are you using the free version of ChatGPT? If so, you might be wasting your time. Well, just being honest, that's one of the things that we're going to be talking about today on Everyday AI. This is your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday people like you and me not just learn about AI, but how we can actually leverage it. Right? There's no shortage of ways that we can learn about AI. It's everywhere. It's following us everywhere. But how can we actually leverage it in our day to day? That's what everyday AI is all about. All right, so before we get started, we're going to run down the news, but I also want to call your attention to a couple of things. One, make sure you go to your everydayai.com. sign up for that free daily newsletter. Also, you'll see a couple links in the comments. If you're joining us live, take a look in the comments. A couple of things I'm going to be referencing, it's there. If you're listening to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify podcasts anywhere else, make sure you look in the show notes, couple, couple notes in there as well. All right, with that, let's talk about what's going on in the world of AI news. And if you are joining us live, please drop a comment. Let me know, are you using free chatgpt or are you using paid chatgpt? I want to hear from you. All right, let's talk about what's going on in the world of AI news. We got the biggest names today in the news. All right, so Google has said they're finally getting a smarter assistant. So a new Axios report showed an internal email from Google saying that they're going to be refreshing their Google Assistant to make it more kind of like chatting with Bard. So personally I don't use Google Assistant, but I might, because if you've been using ChatGPT or any AI chat over the last year and then you go back and you try to talk to Siri or you try to talk to Alexa, you try to talk to Google Assistant. It's frustrating, right? So I can't wait to see Google kind of update and refresh its Google Assistant. I'm excited about that. All right, second, Meta is set to launch AI powered bots with what they're calling Personas. So essentially what this is is it's allowing users. It seems like I have to double check this. They have 4 billion users across all of their different platforms, right? So Instagram, Facebook, they have, they have, they own just about everything now. Right. But it's giving all of those 4 billion users the ability to talk and chat with AI and Personas. So the example we that Meta gave is imagine having a conversation with Abraham Lincoln or having a conversation with a surfer. Right? Wide range of examples they gave there. But for users, if you've used the Snapchat AI, presumably it's going to be a little like this, but probably a little more powerful given Meta has been working on its Llama 2 model, which is essentially its kind of equivalent or its competitor to, to chat GPT GPT4. All right, last but not least, YouTube is testing AI summaries. Right. Actually did a quick overview of, of summarizing YouTube videos with Chat GPT. If you didn't see it in the newsletter, make sure you go check that out. But YouTube did announce that they're going to be testing AI summaries and they've actually already started to roll it out to limited users on limited videos. So I'm not, I'm not sure on this one. I'm not sure mainly because it's, you know, YouTube's main ad, ad revenue is from people watching videos from front to end, from beginning to end. So I'm sure they've already thought about this. Maybe, you know, the, the summaries will be sponsored by someone. I'm not sure, but should be interesting to talk about nonetheless. All right, that's it for the AI news. So let's see, let's see who's joining us this morning. Brian saying. Good morning, Brian. Thank you for joining us. All right, Lashazar saying there's a big difference between free and chat GPT. I agree. Brian is using paid. That's great. Nita is using paid. Awesome. Pj, thank you for joining us. Monica is using the free version. All right, so. But might be getting shamed. All right, so let's talk about what is the difference between the free version of Chat GPT and the paid version. All right, so I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to put up a basic chart here on the screen. If you're joining us live, you're joining us in the podcast. Don't worry, I'm going to walk through it. But actually, before I even go over this chart, I'm going to start with an analogy because I like to. All right, if you've if you've been to our PPP course, our Prime Polish, or sorry, Prime Prompt Polish course, you've maybe heard me talk about this. Maybe, maybe not. But. But what I say is that let's say you need to make a phone call, right? The free version of using Chat GPT is like using that 1999 flip phone, you know, the one that had Snake or it, the Nokia, and it lit up. Right? Can it make a phone call? Sure. But using the paid version of ChatGPT is like having the newest smartphone, right? That's the difference. That smartphone can make a call. But that smartphone. You can also run an entire business just using a smartphone. And that is the same with ChatGPT4, also known as ChatGPT plus, right? Yes, it is $20 a month, but you can literally run an entire business with chat GPT4 in the extra functionality that it provides. All right. Also, if you all have questions as we start to dive in to the GPT Free versus the GPT 4 paid, right? Free versus paid. If you have questions, let me know. This is the time to dive in to the differences, to explore why you might want to use Free or paid. All right, let's start at the top, which we already talked about the cost. It is free to use Chat GPT 3.5. It costs $20 a month to use Chat GPT plus, right? I'll say this, I know not everyone can afford $20 a month. I get that. But if you have a job, if you are employed, and if you buy one coffee a month at a Starbucks, or if you eat out once a month, then you can afford ChatGPT plus and it'll pay for itself. Right? I've said this before, it's probably. And again, full disclosure, no one's paying me to say this. Open AI is not paying me to say this, but I will venture. This is 20amonth for chat GPT plus is probably the biggest bargain on the Internet, if I'm being honest. I would pay more than a thousand dollars a month to use ChatGPT Plus. It is that good because if you can use it correctly, and there's a huge emphasis on that, if you can use it correctly, it can act as a fully trained employee. You can actually have many fully trained employees if you go through. And if you give them the training they need, make sure they have access, you know, via plugins or code interpreter, which we talk, which we'll talk about. But again, if you could have a brand new smartphone or a 1999 flip phone to run a Business, which one would you choose? So, so many people out there, and this is why I need to do a show on this. So many people out there are still using the free version of ChatGPT, even though they know some of the functionality of the paid version, right? So again, that is the equivalent. Let's even say, let's even do it. Take it one step further. This is trying to run your business with a flip phone, a phone book and a pen versus a smartphone, a computer and the Internet. Can you still run a business? The former, sure. But you need to be using the paid version of ChatGPT, right? I've talked to so many people, so many people, and this is the number one mistake that people are making is when they're talking about Chat GPT and using it in their business. And I say, okay, well, tell me how you use ChatGPT, right? I was even talking with, with a handful of friends this weekend. You know, now you can go around at a, at a gathering and say, hey, you know, you can talk about Chat GPT, but everyone's using the free version, right? And I tell people that is the number one mistake. All right, So I spent a little too much time maybe on just the money, but I guarantee you, once you learn how to use it, it will pay for itself in seconds. Because even how myself, my team, how we're using Chat gbt, it is saving us hours, hours a day, much more. There's, there's sometimes single prompts that we run and the results that we get from these prompts, because we're properly using Chat GPT plugins, the results we get from a single prompt might save us multiple hours. And we're doing this every single day. All right, let's start there. And actually, you know what, this is my show, so I can do this. I'm gonna go ahead and, and do a, not a commercial break, but I'm gonna go ahead and plug this. All right, so if you're, if you're listening right now, if you've taken the course, the PPP course, maybe, maybe drop a line, let people know if it's good or not. But we do this multiple times a week, usually a free 60 minute course called PPP Prime Prompt Polish. All right, so if you're listening to this live, drop a ppp. I'll send you the information. We're not selling anything at the end, right? Go, go, go. Watch these video testimonials. We're not selling anything at the end. We're just helping people learn Chat GPT. All right? So make sure, make sure you check that out. We do have a class today and two classes tomorrow. All right? And then it's probably going to be a couple weeks or maybe a month or longer until we do another one again. So, yeah, like, like May Britt said, she said, showing her comment here, I highly recommend ppp. She actually did the course twice, so she said, I followed it twice and it helped me enormously. I could go on for hours about it. All right, so thank you, May Brit. But, you know, take it, take it from May Brit. Take, take the course. Trust me. Right, but let's go back and let's talk about some more differences. All right, so we already talked about the costs. Now let's talk about the limits. And sometimes people say, oh, this is the reason I use the free version of ChatGPT. Well, there are limits on the paid version, right? So you get 50 messages every three hours on the paid version. You know, most, they just change it. It used to be 25. So most people don't run into that limit. But something to keep in mind, we, we run into that limit a lot, right? Because we're using ChatGPT in every aspect of our business, which you should be, too. I tell people ChatGPT is like using the Internet, right? And some people who are like, oh, I'm on the free version or I don't want to pay. It's like, okay, well, you don't want to use the Internet. That, that is, that is the equivalent. Okay, so limits. Now we know. Let's talk about strengths, because the free version does have a strength. It's faster. It's faster than the GPT4, than the paid version. But that's, in my opinion, that's, that's negligible because what you get out of Chat GPT free, I'm not trying to be mean. I would never use it. It's not that great, if I'm being honest, because GPT4 is more skilled. So let's just say you're using Chat GPT for something like copywriting, right? This is probably the most common use case that people are using GPT4. So students are using it to write their papers. You know, people are using it to write emails or to write reports or whatever, right? I'll say this. GPT3, yes, it's unlimited and you can write a ton very fast. But it's like having a high school writer, right, versus GPT4. It is better. It has depth, it has recency. It is just much, much better. And if you have the Paid version. Try running the same, the same prompts in free versus paid. GPT4 is a. It's a larger model, it has more parameters, right? So think of it. The difference between even the models, you know, if you had the original version of iOS, the operating system, you know, the very first operating system that came out on the iPhone, you couldn't really do anything. You could make a call, you could open an email, right? But you couldn't multitask, you couldn't do all these things, right? So think of it like that. Yes, you can run the same command on free versus Paid, but the output is exponentially better when you are using paid, even if you're just using it just to write so much better. All right, so the strengths of GPT3 is it's faster. That's it. Nothing else. Right? And it's not limited. The strengths of GPT4 is its recency, right? Because let's actually skip down to the cutoff, because that's the most important thing. And aside from people using the free version of Chat GPT versus the paid, the number two biggest mistakes that people are make are making is not understanding that you're not going to get the best outputs from the free version because there is a knowledge cutoff at September 2021. So what does that mean, a knowledge cut off? Right. If you ask chat GPT, the free version, anything that happened after September 2021, it won't, it won't know. You'll probably get one of two things. You're going to get this message that says, you know, I am an AI model and this is my cutoff. So I don't know. Or worse, you might just get some hallucinations. Here's the other thing. When people are writing or using the free version of ChatGPT, we're not just talking about things that have or haven't happened since September 21st. So let's say as an example, you're a student and you're using this chatgpt to write an econ paper, right? Think of how much Econ has changed since September 2021. So will the free version of Chat GPT still spit out your Econ 101 essay? Of course. Will it include any recent and relevant information since 2021 that your professor is probably looking for? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. All right, all right, Couple, couple more comments. Let me just try to get them on here. Val. Saying GPT3 is 175 billion parameters. Yeah, I think I should really know this off the top of my head. I believe GPT4 is 1.8 trillion. So, yeah, the size of GPT4, you know, it's a large language model, so it's just like all these parameters. So think of it as, you know, these hundreds of millions or billions or trillions of data points. GPT4 is 1.8 trillion. And yeah, Val, Val is saying here in the comments that 3 is 175 billion. So, yeah, I'm not a mathematician, but 1.8 trillion is much larger than 175 billion. All right, Maurice saying hi, thank you for joining us. I'm going to go ahead and take a question here and if you have a question, now's the time, get it in. All right, so Ben is asking, does V4 have funnier or more thoughtful hallucinations than 3.5? Yes, it does, but also, I don't know, like I, I have an episode on hallucinations. So hallucination is when chat GPT lies to you and you get it obviously much more if you're just using 3.5. You'll still get it if you're using GPT4, the default model. But don't ever use the default model in GPT4. There's no, there's no reason to. We're going to get into that here in a second. But if I'm being honest, I don't. My chat GPT, I use it hours a day. I don't get hallucinations. It doesn't lie. All that means is probably user error that the user hasn't given ChatGPT access to what it needs. If you're asking a query, right? So, you know, in this example, Ben, you know, or anyone else, if you're listening to this, yes, Chat GBT does lie all the time, right? The free version, much more than the paid. But if you're asking, you know, to, to use the same example, if you're asking ChatGPT to write your econ paper and it hallucinates, well, you should probably give it access to the Internet and you should probably give it access to maybe a PDF or, you know, 10 websites that are talking about the current state of econ, right? So otherwise, yeah, it might hallucinate, it might make some stuff up. Because here's the other thing. Think of ChatGPT as a collection or any large language model, a collection of every single thing that's ever been on the Internet, right? We talked about trillion of parameters and guess what? There's a lot of wrong stuff on the Internet too. There's a lot of even bias on the Internet stereotypes. So you are going to get all of these things, you are going to get lies, bias, stereotypes, while using not just ChatGPT, but any AI chat, any large language model, because it's in its brain, right? So that's why you have to steer GPT4 even when you're using it. And if you just use it out of the box, you'll still get hallucinations, you'll still get some lies, right? Great question though, Ben, but let's continue on and talk a little bit more about the difference between free and paid.

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That's because at a certain point, ChatGPT and all large language models start to forget things, all right? That's important. Even as you give it information, even as you give it feedback, even as you coach your chats to do better, it's still going to lose its memory. All right? Now the last, the last subject that I want to talk about is integrations, all right? And this is a big one. So Justin saying ppp, I got you. I'll send it. Val. Ppp. Val, you haven't been in the PPP course yet. All right, Krishna, ppp. I'll send it all to you guys. Don't worry. When I'm done here, I will send it to you. But let's talk about integrations. This is the big one, all right? The free version of Chat GPT has no integrations. There's only what's called the default model. All right? So if you pay the 20amonth and you get chat GPT4, you can enable these other modes, okay? There's a, there's still a default Mode in chat GPT4. Don't use it. There's literally. Someone proved me wrong. I don't think you will. There's 0, 0 reason to ever use the default model in chat GPT4. Here's the reason. Once you start a chat, you can't switch the model, right? You also can't add or remove plugins midway through. So whatever you start with and when you build a chat, that's what we teach in the PPP course. Creating experts. It's creating little employees, creating dozens or hundreds of employees. But once you start, there's a three plugin minimum. We're going to talk about plugins, but you can't add, remove, modify plugins when you start, right? So even if you start a chat and if you don't think you're going to need any plugins, we recommend that you still enable plugins because you never know if you want the Internet, which you. At some point as your chat grows, you're probably going to need access to the Internet. So also I'll put in another plug. I'm just plugging everything today. Today because we're talking plugins. So I'm going to plug our plug in show. We're going to talk about that Friday. So we're going to talk about some of our best plugins. So there's probably going to be a lot of questions. Join us Friday. All right, so the integrations and the modes, let's just go back there. So even in paid, you're going to have default, don't use it. There's, there's no reason to. You're going to have plugins. That is our favorite mode. Okay, so again, we'll be talking about plugins a little bit more on Friday, so make sure to join us for that. And then there's also Code interpreter. Code interpreter is a newer model that was just released to everyone a couple weeks ago, maybe about a month ago now. And the best way to explain Code interpreter is if you had a very powerful data scientist in your pocket. So you can upload any file and ask ChatGPT to do a crazy variety of things. So simple things, yeah, you know, plot this data, look through, but it can code right code very well. Much better than default models. You can upload photo, video, have them, you know, I've seen examples. You can program it to do face tracking in videos, you can have it do animations on photos. So the code interpreter is great, but probably what you'll be using a little more presumably will be the plugins. All right, so let's talk a little bit very quickly about plugins. And in the comments, I did share a video here on what's called ddv, right? So we did these kind of genius tactics. Essentially these are in house things that our team put together. If you Google Chat GPT, ddv, you're not going to find anything on the Internet. These are our tactics that we are kind of releasing to different people if you take our free courses. All right, so in this example, we call it data or sorry, document data and visualization. So in this one prompt and there's a YouTube video that shows you this, you can go from reading 109 page PDF, pulling out certain pieces of information that are on multiple pages of this PDF, creating a CSV from data extracted from multiple pages of that 109 page PDF and then also creating a chart in a diagram. Right. That's from one prompt. So we teach something called Plug Impacts. Again, you can only have three. So you know, when I say it's like a smartphone, it's like running your business. Hopefully that's something Chat GPT changes in the future where you can have more than three plugins in an active chat, or if you can mix and match and remove some and add some. But right now you can't. So you, you can literally run a business. This what I'm showing right here on the screen and hopefully that makes sense. Think of, you have to read a hundred page PDF, you have to pull out a bunch of information and create a CSV a report for someone. And then you're also going to have to create a graph. You know, you're going to have to visualize all that. This is some people's jobs, right? Literally there are millions of people in America. This is their job, this is what they do. Right. Or it could be a part of so many of our jobs. You know, in my former life I would have to do this all the time. You know, working, working at a nonprofit. We had very high level partnerships with Nike and Jordan Brand. That's all I was working on. I was doing stuff like this all the time, reading grant reports, trying to pull information from, from different websites. Right. You can do it all now in literally a couple of seconds. What used to take hours. All right, so that's just an example of plugins and why I wanted to spend just a little bit more time talking about plugins and plug in packs. So that's something that we teach in the free course. All right, so let's jump back and let's kind of wrap this up well. We'll see if we have any other, any other plugins. So Nancy, thank you for joining us. Nancy, hope you can join us Friday. But she highly recommends the PPP course. Thank you, Val. Saying plugins are a must. Absolutely. Brian saying great course, highly recommend. Thank you.

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What's up, Josh? Josh and I actually did an AI summit together. There's a link out there. Josh, go ahead and drop your link if you have it. Make sure to go watch, you know, his, his course that he put together. It's great. But yeah, he's talking about code interpreter saying, you know, it uses over 330 Python functions. So powerful. Yeah, Code interpreter is like literally a data scientist, a programmer in your pocket. So as we wrap things up here, the moral of this story is this. Stop using the free version of chat GPT. Just stop again if you're buying yourself one coffee if you're going out to eat once a month. I, I know not everyone can afford 20amonth. I get it. You know, you might not be employed right now. You might be a student still, you know, scraping that old ramen off the bowl. I get it, but, but if you use it correctly, you will make that money back instantly. It is literally like being able to hire multiple employees that work for you for essentially free. They work for you for $20 a month, no matter how many of them you train up. All right, so that's number one. Number two, if I'm being honest, the free version of Chat GPT, when it came out, right, it broke the Internet, you know, I think it had what, 100 million users within the matter of a couple days. When ChatGPT free version first came out in 2022, November 2022, let me tell you something, I was not impressed. Not in a bad way, but just in a. All right, cool. Here's the thing. The GPT technology, so what you have in GPT 3.5, that's already been out for years, not November 2022, that was just ChatGPT, but the functionality to use the GPT technology as it exists in GPT 3.5, that's been out for years. We've been using it since 2020. So when the free version of ChatGPT came out, I was like, meh, nothing special. Nice to have. We didn't even use it because we were still using other tools like Jasper, Jasper AI, copy AI, you know, all these different tools because they were still better at the time than GPT 3.5. So if you're at all impressed with the free version of Chat GPT, let me just say this. Wait until you use that paid version. All right, so I'm going to, I'm going to wrap it up there. But as a reminder, please, if you're interested at least, and people are vouching again, there's. There's no, no upsell, no cross sell at. Everything's free. So make sure if you want access, let me know if you're listening on Apple Podcast, Spotify.

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