Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 113: 5 Simple ChatGPT Hacks To Make It Easier to Use

Episode Date: October 2, 2023

Feeling stuck when using ChatGPT? Not getting the most out of it? We're sharing 5 simple ChatGPT hacks on how you can use ChatGPT to get better responses and have it work for you!Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Ask Jordan questions about ChatGPTUpcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTimestamps:[00:01:55] Daily AI news[00:05:55] Hack #1 - Plugins mode[00:08:40] Hack #2 - Swap out Google Search[00:11:00] Hack #3 - Internet-connected plugin[00:14:05] Hack #4 - Use Custom Instructions[00:18:05] Hack #5 - Give ADA internet access[00:21:15] Audience questions and commentsTopics Covered in This Episode:1. Using plugins with ChatGPT2. Connecting the internet to ChatGPT3. Ways to get more out of ChatGPTKeywords:ChatGPT, OpenAI, Meta, AI, GPT-4, Apple, ChatGPT Plugins, Google, AI hacks, ChatGPT tips, AI deepfakes, search, ADASend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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If you are stuck on chat GPT and maybe you're not getting the most out of it, this is a great show for you. I'm going to share five simple chat GPT hacks to make it easier to use. Welcome. My name is Jordan Wilson. This is Everyday AI, your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter, helping everyday people like me and you make better sense of AI and how we can make it grow our company and grow our career. So if you're interested in knowing how to better use chat GPT,

this is a great episode for you. So whether you are a beginner or you've been using chat dbt just about every day like me, I think that you're going to find some value in today's episode. So, first of all, thank you to everyone joining us live. This is a live stream. So if you are joining us on the podcast, make sure to check your show notes. Join us on the live stream in the future. It's a lot of fun. So, you know, everyone joining us live.

So Dr. Rossifah joining us. Thank you. Douglas. Good morning. Thank you, Brian Kennedy, joining us. Trevor. All right. So we've got a lot of people.

people here joining us live. Thank you as always for learning together. That's what this is all about. But let's first, before we get into all this chat, GVT, and I think some ways that you all will really like, let's first talk about the AI news. It's something that we do every single day. So first, meta has released its Lama 2 long AI model. So the Lama 2 model spent out for a while, but meta kind of stealthily over the weekend released its long AI model. So meta platforms designed. This new AI long model is designed to handle longer text sequences, and it outperforms

some leading AI models. And this model is based on the open source Lama 2, but it has gone, it has undergone continual training with longer training sequences. So it's definitely something to keep an eye on. And yes, some of y'all have asked, and I will do it, a dedicated llama episode here in the future. It's kind of fun to say that, right? A llama episode.

All right. Next piece of news. So celebrity AI fakes are on the rise. This kind of two different stories that came out right one after another. So the first one, Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late Robin Williams recently expressed her disapproval of AI recreations of her late father's voice. But another one that just happened less than a day ago, Tom Hanks

is now warning fans about a promotional video for a dental plan featuring an AI version of himself. And obviously he had nothing to do with it. So especially here in the U.S. as the 2024 election cycle is going to start to heat up. This is going to be something that we're going to see a lot more of, is just kind of these AI fakes and what the U.S. is going to do about it, if anything. All right, some big news. It's speculative, but I think it's worth bringing up today. So is Apple building a generative AI search engine?

So a recent report from Bloomberg looks at what Apple may be doing under the scenes. And kind of some of the rumors are suggesting that it may be releasing a search engine to go up against Google and other search giants. So reportedly Apple is working to integrate its internal. It's internally named Pegasus search engine into iOS and MacOS. and may use some AI tools to enhance it. So, very interesting news happening over the weekend in the world of generative AI. And it's something that we do every single day. So people always ask, hey, Jordan, when is this everyday AI show?

When do you do it? It's every day. You know, there's always so much happening. There's always so many new developments happening in the world of generative AI. So we do this every single weekday. We go live. Monday through Friday, 7.30 a.m. Central Standard Time. So, thank you, everyone, for joining. What a great, what a great crew. I'm excited to go over this day. I hope you are too.

Dr. Harvey, thank you for joining. He says, like Apple Maps, Apple Search, Smart Idea. Yeah, we'll see. There's been plenty of different stories that show just how much Apple has to pay, essentially, different I think right now they're paying Google to use the default search on Safari. So it's definitely a future move, but it's also a move that, in theory, would help them pocket hundreds of millions of dollars. There might even be more than that. All right, but that's not what you came here to listen to. You came here to listen to five simple chatGBT hacks to make chatGBT easier to use.

So let's dive right into it. And please, if you are joining, maybe you have, maybe you have a hack. Maybe you share your favorite too. Maybe I'll pick a couple at the end and shout them out here on the show. All right. So my chat GPT hack number one is to default to plugins mode. Okay. So when you use chat GPT, it used to always go to default mode.

It doesn't do that anymore. But I encourage people not only to use the plugins mode by default, but also I have a little URL on the screen here. And I'll share this in the show notes. Don't worry. But you can also grab, and a lot of people don't know this, but there is this URL here. It's just slash question mark model equals. GPT dash 4 dash plugins, right? You can actually just save that as a bookmark and launch chat GPT in plugins mode.

And you're, you might be asking, and I'll try not to go on a long rant like, okay, why plugins mode? Why anything else, right? Or why not anything else? So it's also worth noting that in order to access plugins mode, you obviously have to have the $20 a month, chat GPt plus subscription. I very highly encourage people. Go find this out for yourself, and I actually just had a show about this last week.

But, you know, chat GPT and OpenAI, the parent company, just re-released Browse with Bing after they had to pull it for a couple of months due to some copyrights complaints and some lawsuits. So they just did reintroduce this. So a lot of people are trying to flock back to Browse with Bing. I did an entire show on why you probably shouldn't do that. But I always encourage people to use plugins mode by default.

Don't use the default mode. That has access to nothing. There is the Browse with Bing mode that allows you to essentially query Bing. There is advanced data analysis mode, which is exactly what it sounds like, an advanced data analysis mode. And then there's plugins mode. I tell people always, always, always use plugins, right? I've consulted now hundreds of people, individuals, companies on chat GPT. And this is always what I tell people is start in deep, start in plugins mode.

All right. Next. And this is very much related. Swap out Google search. All right. And this is something actually had Mark DeGras, the president of digital marketer, on the everyday AI show a couple months ago. And this is one of his suggestions as well.

I've been telling people this for many months, but this is one of his suggestions as well is the future of the internet, right, is generative AI. And it's the same thing with search engines, right? So we talked about the top of the show that Apple is working on a search engine competitor to Google and others, but they are trying to infuse AI. So even Google, right, if you've used Google search recently,

you've probably seen the new what's called SGE, which is the search generative experience, right? So I'd say if you are still using the traditional Google search or Yahoo search or Bing or, I don't know, does Ask G still even exist? I'm actually curious now. that's one of the first search engines I used. Let's see, does Jack? Yeah.

Okay. Now it's just ask.com, apparently. But, you know, swap out. If you are using a traditional non-generative AI search, swap it out, right? You can use, sure, SGE from Google, their generative search. You can use Bing kind of has a, you know, Microsoft Bing kind of has a smarter, you know, AI search that seamlessly integrates into their Bing chat. I recommend plugins, right?

There's so much that you can do in the plugins mode inside chat chpt. And probably one of the best ways to learn how to use it is to go ahead and swap out your Google search, right? Yeah. Dr. Kester is saying, I love plugins. This is my default. Same.

Same. Peter, Peter, thank you for joining us. Peter saying it's the. The only way you can do it in chat GPT. Absolutely. Absolutely. And as a reminder, if you are joining live, thank you.

But go ahead. Put in what is your one biggest chat GPT hack? If we have some good ones, I'll share one or two at the end. All right. So let's keep going here. Our third one is to always use an internet connected plugin. Okay. Why?

Right? Something that's very important to keep in mind with chat GPT is the knowledge cutoff date. It is September 2021. Okay. And if you are using any large language model, it's always important to know what the cutoff date is. Right. So any models that use the GPT technology, which is from open AI, has a knowledge cutoff of September 2021.

You know, if you're using BARD, I believe it's a little later, same thing with cloud. But still, if we're talking just chat GPT right now, you should always be connected to the internet, which is another reason. You know, if you're only using the free version of chat GBT, I like to tell people, then you're not really using it. You know, you're not. So that's important to keep in mind. Always use an internet connected plugin.

Talked about this on the show. We've gone over some of our favorite plugins for business use cases. But two, that our team really finds a lot of use of, and we use them a lot, is browser app plugin and the VoxScript plugin. So talked about this before, but we're dorks. Anytime we give you advice, it's not just on a whim. We've actually tested more than 20 internet connected plugins. across four major functions.

We took dated screenshots so, you know, people can see the results of, you know, what works and what doesn't because not all internet connected plugins inside chat GBT are created the same, you know, and if you are very new, I should probably explain it. If you are very new to chat GPT and maybe this episode title caught your eye and you're like, okay, I could use some chat GPT hacks.

Plugins, again, you have to be on the chat GPD plus mode, but you can only have three plugins enabled at any time, which is why we teach plugin packs in our free prime prompt Polish course. So if you want access to that, just in this chat, just go ahead and type in PPP. We do these free trainings twice a week. There's no upsell at the end either. So we always teach people to always use an internet connected plugin. You have three kind of slots whenever you start a new chat inside chat,

GPD plugins, and one of those should always be an internet-connected plugin so you can cut down on the likelihood of getting those hallucinations, of making sure that this large language model, you know, OpenAI's GPT4, does not lie, does not hallucinate. That's one of the best ways. All right. Number four. Use custom instructions. Adobe just introduced an entirely new way to create.

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Because I actually did, yes, I did a video last week on the reasons why you probably shouldn't use custom instructions. So this is a big asterisk. So only use custom instructions if you have limited use cases. And here's why. But I still do recommend it again if you have limited use cases in chat GPT, right? I do not. Our team uses chat GPT for many different things, right? We use it for our own internal purposes. We use it for Accelerant agency. That is the small, the digital strategy company that I own based here in Chicago. So we're using it for Accelerant Agency. We're using it for everyday AI.

We're using it to test different things. So here's essentially very short version of what custom instructions are and why they are a hack if you have very limited use cases of chat GPT. So custom instructions are essentially that, right? With chat GPT, they're naming of different features and modes are very, very self-explanatory, but every time you start a new chat, if you have custom instructions enabled, you can essentially give chat GPT a list of steps or a list of facts. You know, if you want it to kind of respond to you more in your voice, if you always want

to say, hey, you know, do A, B, and C before ever responding. It is a shortcut and a hack for many, not for us, but something to keep in mind. it can save you a whole lot of back and forth with chat GPT. You know, so you can give it access. Let's say if we're talking limited use cases, let's say you are only using it, you know, for your job. And it's one position. You're just working, you know, let's say in the marketing department

of a Fortune 500 company, whatever that may be, right? And instead of having to go back and forth all the time and say, nope, this is our brand voice, nope, these are the campaigns that we're working on. And again, I always have to shout this out. Make sure to never upload confidential or sensitive information into chat. ChbD or any other large language model because all large language models use that to train their models. But custom instructions can essentially save you time from going back and forth and trying to get a new chat or a current chat to kind of get up to speed. So instead of training an employee from scratch, which is what we teach people to do, if you're all in

working in one major area inside chat gvt, it just saves you time. But again, what's important to know is when you start, if you have custom instructions enabled and you start a new chat, they are on by default. So if you do want to go into a different work project or maybe you want to use it for your personal life to plan out your meals for the week or whatever, if you have custom instructions enabled and you go to start a new chat and you know, you just dive in there and you start, you're going to have to start over and turn custom instructions off because you can't toggle it on and off at the chat level, which, hey, if anyone ever from Open AI is listening to this, please give that as an option because then we can use custom instructions across the board.

But it's important right now is if you have that enabled, every single new chat that you make with it enabled, it will be stuck there and you can't undo it, right? So it's important to keep in mind, but it is a good hack if you have very limited use cases. All right. Number five, last but not least, give ADA access to the Internet. All right. So advanced data analysis. Actually, drop this one into our also free prime prompt, Polish Pro course.

And people seem to like it. So I figured I'll just share this one little tip. Won't go through it kind of step by step. But also, and I believe someone in here in the comments mentioned this, mentioned a couple different, a couple different, sorry, we have our Canva wasn't working today. So I have on presentation mode. So someone in the comments mentioned different Chrome extensions that you can use inside chat chabit. So that's another conversation for another day. But inside advanced data analysis, it is a mode inside chat GPT that, again, does really like it says.

But it is great at data visualization. It is great at coding, right? If you're working a lot in programming languages, advanced data analysis is better than other modes when you are doing heavy data lifting, when you're doing heavy development mode, coding, whatever it may be. But the downside, again, even when you are in those modes, you are working with a September 2021 knowledge cutoff. So even best, there are even like best practices. You know, if you are using it for web development, something like that. There's best practices, obviously, that have changed drastically in the last two years since that knowledge cutoff. So you can actually give advanced data analysis access to the internet by using a Chrome extension.

You know, you can use one called WebGPT. There's a couple of others, but and kind of go over a couple use cases of this in our pro PPP course. Again, it's for free. So if you want access to shout it out, PPP, I'll send it to you. But advanced data analysis is such a, I think, it has great potential. The reason why I don't use it too much more is because anytime you're in that moment, as an example, you can't use plugins, right?

I would love if you could use plugins inside any mode. So whether you use the default mode, the browse with Bing, the plugins, or the advanced data analysis, those are the four different modes inside of chat GPT Plus. But you can only use plugins inside, obviously, the plugins mode. So that's why I don't use ADA a whole lot, the advanced data analysis mode a whole lot, because it needs access to the internet to make sure you're not getting hallucinations, to make sure, you know, even if you're talking, you know, coding and development, you know, changes, changes happen.

And you need to let your chat inside chat, GPT, inside advanced data analysis know. And that is one kind of little hack that we shared in our pro training of a way that you can do that. All right. So what was your favorite? What was your favorite simple hack? And again, I wanted to have a show where we could talk about the basics, right? but hopefully where some of y'all can still, if you are heavy users of chat GBT, that you could still find value in this episode.

So I'm going to take a couple of questions. And again, if you have a favorite chat GPT hack, let me know. So Jay Palluzzi, sorry if I got the last name wrong there, Jay, but asking if the group has a top five list for plugins, Jay, check. check the show notes after the show. I'll leave a link to an episode where I went over some of the best. But yeah, definitely VoxScript and browser op are two of the ones that we almost always use inside plugins mode. Woozy, great.

He says, the most random plugin I use is photorealistic, gives you a prompt to copy and paste for mid-jurney images. That's a fantastic, fantastic one as well. There, Woozy, I really do like that one as well. Let's see. Let's see. I want to make sure if anyone left, there's one great hack, the best internet's connected plugin. Again, it depends on what you need it for because there's with internet connected plugins without going too deep. There's really four big things you want to look for. You want to look for the ability to query the internet or ask the internet something. You want to be able to

visit a specific webpage. You want to be able to read a PDF and, hey, icing on the cake. If you can also summarize YouTube videos. So there's four different, uh, there's four. There's four different kind of main elements and no one plugin at least now i do know we have uh in every day or uh peter i think working working on such plug in but yeah right now there is no plugin that does all four but uh box script and uh browser op do uh three of the four each just different ones so uh all right let's see here we go uh dr dr harvey uh castro has a hack uh thanks for sharing so uh he says mix and match he says use the output from chat gpti plugin and then he takes that and uses it in cloud AI so cloud is another uh if you are new a cloud two is a large language model from anthropic so

he uses that to get more tokens this way cloud is primed by chat gptt and he then puts it to use bigger tokens from cloud yes that's a great um and even when we talk about you know some of these hacks uh and you know a couple of them are to avoid hallucination so it is important to know that You know, chat GPT does have a much more limited, at least right now, token output, which is essentially memory, right? So large language models after certain points in time, they will start to lose their memory. Also, if anyone working in AI is listening,

please start building these in to large language models, right? Like, get token counters. It's going to help the average everyday user so much. You know, if they're working in chat, or anything else. And they get a warning, right? Like, hey, the initial conversations, the initial inputs that you first put in, our large language model is starting to forget that information.

It is one of the, for newbies using large language models, it is one of the most important things to keep in mind that, you know, some of that information that you put in in the beginning and you're having these conversations, you know, whether it's, you know, the 8K tokens, which is about 6,400 words, inside of chat GPT's GPT4. It's 32,000 tokens if you're using the API or the playground. But at a certain point, chat GPT and other large language models are going to start to lose, lose the context, lose the memory, and to start to hallucinate a little bit more.

All right, Dr. Rossophe, thank you. He said, if you have not done the PPP course yet, what are you waiting for? I agree. Thank you. Thank you for that. All right. I don't see any other, I don't see any other hacks here in the comments. But some people sharing Jackie Singh, SEO plugins are great for keyword research. Absolutely. So yes, and I did share this one. So it looks like some people are sharing this as a hack. But I did do a AI in five. So every single day, we also put this in a newsletter. So if you are new and just listening on the podcast, I did do a little AI in five, which is a five minute recap on a token counter Chrome extension last week. So make sure to go to make sure to check that out. All right. Speaking of that of that newsletter, check it out if you haven't already. All right. So please go to your everyday AI.com. Sign up for the free daily newsletter.

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Absolutely, it is. All right. So thank you for joining. I hope you learned one or two new little hacks that can help you use chat GPT a little bit better. As a reminder, we're going to go over very quick here. Default to plugins mode number one. Number two, swap out Google search. Number three, always use an internet connected plugin.

Number four, use custom instructions if you have a limited use case. and five, give the advanced data analysis mode access to the internet. And hey, I'll throw a number six. Go sign up for that daily newsletter. All right. Thanks, y'all. Appreciate everyone's input, whether you're listening on the podcast, the live stream, we appreciate you.

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