ChatGPT Plus
jasonleow • 10 Dec 2023 •
I finally got access to ChatGPT Plus!
I never needed it for the longest time, because the free version ChatGPT 3.5, and other free, open source LLMs, sufficed for me.
But ever since I saw custom GPTs come out and folks like @levelsio making Monkey Island text-based game using custom GPT, I wanted in so badly. Then just as I wanted to pay, the Sam Altman incident happened and for unknown reasons they decided to shut down upgrades for “bandwidth” reasons.
So you can imagine, when I got the email from OpenAI yesterday that they are slowly opening their waitlist and I’m invited to subscribe by a certain cut-off date, I jumped on it.
Now I’m a happy camper.
A few things I’m planning to do with it:
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Make my own custom GPT for my Grant Hunt bot. It’s a rudimentary, logic-based Facebook Messenger bot that gives you recommendations on the type of social impact grants to apply for in Singapore. I recently shut down due to lack of budget (it costs $15/m). The grant money I got previously for it ran out, and it’s also hard to update it due to how I built it using blocks on the nocode bot platform Chatfuel. But now I can make a custom GPT version where I feed it data about social impact grants and it can give recommendations, just like the old bot, but 10x better as it’s truly conversational. Downside is member of public will not be able to use unless they have a ChatGPT Plus subscription. Got to look for a solution for that!
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Tech for good custom GPTs. Explore possibilities on how to create tech for good tools that benefits from conversational UI.
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Generate web design assets. I can talk to DALL-E 3 now. Previously I couldn’t because Bing Image Creator doesn’t allow for chat. But now I can feed it reference images, and it can generate something based off that. Can imagine designing loads of web design assets that way!
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Web assets generator SaaS. Got a light bulb moment when I tweeted about using DALL-E 3 to generate web assets, and everyone asked me how I managed to generate a transparent/homogenous background. And this was coming from folks who were making AI tools or use ChatGPT! Maybe there’s a seed of a SaaS idea here. Use DALL-E 3 to generate based on a custom prompt that includes “on a pure white background”, auto-remove background using remove.bg API, save as .png. Upsell more format features like save as banner, gif, round thumbnail, etc. Whatever web assets one usually needs for a website. Makes sense?
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Make my own text-based adventure games. Try out the text-based games like the Monkey Island one, and make my own version. Just for the fun of it.
What are the other things I must try with ChatGPT Plus?
Comments
- Describe your social media strategy and ask for advice
- Ask it to explain the Buddhist concept of dependent origination
- Use ChatGPT to design a better ChatGPT prompt
- Provide a writing sample, ask it to describe your writing style then ask for specific advice on how to improve your writing skills
- Ask it to describe the differences between carrot cake from Singapore, Britain and India
- Ask it to explain something complex you want to learn, have it make a week-long study plan, then daily syllabi, then come back each day and work on the individual lessons
- Upload a logo or web asset and ask it to critique the design and what can be learned from it
- Ask it to draw a funny cartoon with a simple gag you provide
@therealbrandonwilson Some ideas:
- Use DALL-E to design assets, images for your newsletter.
- Create a custom GPT by feed your entire archive of newsletters, and allowing subscribers to ask questions about biohacking.
- Create a custom GPT by feed your entire archive of newsletters, and getting it to write drafts or sections based on your tone of voice and writing style.
- Feed GPT 4 your brain puzzles and ask it to invent new ones.
- Feed code interpreter a CSV of your newsletter stats, and ask questions, look for patterns, ask for opportunities
I like the idea of creating a custom GPT, but I’m not sure of an easy way of feeding my archive of newsletters (all behind a paywall).
@therealbrandonwilson If you’re referring to Substack they have an export on their settings page. It exports a list of emails, a list of posts, individual posts as html, and individual reports on delivery data for each post. Unfortunately, last I heard the GPTs have upload limits on the number of files and size. I think it’s 10 files although no one has figured out the total size yet. You might be able to upload a csv listing your posts and then include some samples of your best posts. To feed it everything would probably require training a fine-tuned model.
I almost feel paralyzed about what to do with ChatGPT Plus. All I’ve been using it for is help with social media post suggestions and images for my newsletter. If you think of a use case based on what you know about me, let me know.