A short transcript from a YouTube video demonstrating OpenAI's 'deep research' feature used to compile extensive, curated lists for skill improvement. The speaker describes prompting the tool to generate 100 actions to improve communication skills, notes it found 33 sources and took 11 minutes, and highlights the tool's ability to suggest books, resources, and practice techniques for refinement.
Okay, so this deep research feature from OpenAI is a serious, serious release. Let me tell you, if you can use this for your work, this tool is really worth it because it is really good at compiling these massive lists. Okay, so you can use a very simple prompt here to give it a lot of freedom. I can let it compile a list of a hundred things I can do too, and then you can insert whatever skill you want to improve or area you want to learn about. So in this case I said find 100 things I can do to improve my communication skills. It comes back with some follow up questions as per usual. And then look at that. It found 33 sources and took 11 minutes by the way. But look at this massive list and even if I just glaze over this, you can see that all of these are super relevant. Here it's recommending various books and resources and here you have various techniques on how to practice overall. This more open ended approach to this prompt just lets it scour the Internet and come up with what the best strategy is. From here you could always refine it more and you could let it find another hundred ways to focus on a specific topic.
