Chatbots, chatbots everywhere?

Welcome to another edition of what we’re determined to make the best damn newsletter in AI. Here we’ll break down AI topics that matter, open your mind to use cases, and keep you ahead of the curve.

Our #1 goal is to be useful. So please shoot us an email 📩 if you have questions or feedback, and especially if you implement something we share!

Here's what we're covering today:

• What our emergency Hackathon this past weekend tells us about the ChatGPT API

• A use case to solve your overwhelming email inbox

• And a reading list focused on the next big AI feature releases

Let’s get to it! 👇

TODAY'S PERSPECTIVE

Not just chatbots

The official ChatGPI API was released last week. 

At 1/10th the cost.

And most interestingly - Open AI has been vocal about this new API being suitable for a lot more than just chat. 

We threw an emergency hackathon this weekend and 70+ teams convened to see what they could build. 

Here’s what we learned:

The new API “formalizes” how to prompt ChatGPT. It asks for a System Prompt, a User Prompt and ChatGPT’s response, as an Assistant message.

This reinforces that if you’re a power user of ChatGPT and frequently using the role-playing technique, “Act as an expert XYZ”, then you are on the right track.

The ChatGPT API is not just for chat bots. 60% of teams built on top of it for a variety of other use cases from data analytics and news summarization to games and marketing content creation. One team even created a version of Jackbox Games, but with ChatGPT.

In the chat category, we are seeing a few common themes emerge:

1. Chat act as a new way to interact with data - your own, your company’s, and even public data like Twitter

2. Chat as a new way to learn - quizzes, explanations, translations, etc

3. Chat as a new way to delegate - ordering food for you, making a playlist

4. Chat as a new friend - especially when combined with a “persona” like a childrens toy, fitness coach, etc.

If you’re thinking of building something for your company or product using the ChatGPT API, we summed up the biggest differences in our updated Open AI Playground cheat sheet. Grab our free Open AI Playground cheat sheet here. 🦄

USE CASE DEEP DIVE

Generate a digest of your entire email inbox with AI

Feeling the Monday morning dread of an overflowing inbox? Wish you had a magic button to summarize it all for you? We've got you covered in this use case deep dive!

Early adopter of AI in the online course creation space and a member of our inaugural group of community contributors, Sally Weatherly, highlights an incredible no-code AI-powered workflow she created to consume all of her e-mails and provide a digest via Slack.

With a simple drag and drop into a specific Gmail folder triggering the Zapier workflow, Sally is able to stay organized and on top of her emails in a simple, but effective way using AI.

By combining the power of Zapier and the OpenAI integration, Sally uses GPT-3 to summarize each email and generate a Slack message that provides a concise summary of the content and highlights any calls to action or deadlines within the emails.

If you’re like us and totally blown away by the functionality and helpfulness of this AI Stack and want to learn more, check out the full page here!

LINKS

For your reading list 📚

Adding to the list of companies releasing AI features...

• Spotify announced their AI-powered DJ in your pocket which will build you a custom playlist and talk over the top of it

• Hubspot has joined the AI arms race with two new features announced: AI copywriting assistant & chat with your CRM

And if you're really nerdy...

• Here's a framework on how to responsibly develop, create, and share synthetic media (media generated or modified by AI), created by the Partnership on AI’s (PAI) Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media

• Check out this huge repository of GPT prompt engineering guides, tips, tools, and prompts

That's all!

We'll see you again on Thursday. Thoughts, feedback and questions are much appreciated - respond here or shoot us a note at [email protected]. 

Cheers,

🪄 The AI Exchange Team