Issue 010: ChatGPT Plugins have landed

Hey crew👋 this is Woze - your weekly AI & Immersive technology guide. Today we’re looking at 1) ChatGPT Plugins have landed, 2) AI and the Battlefield of titans & 3) YouTubers to VTubers - the next evolution

Plus bonus content 🎁

Grab your boards, and let’s ride the waves of the day 🏄‍♂️

1) 🔌 ChatGPT Plugins have landed

It seems that OpenAI have a knack for dropping heat mostly EVERY Wednesday AFTER I push out an issue.

The team at OpenAI introduced the world to ChatGPT Plugins.

Their very own ecosystem of micro-tools that enhance the use of ChatGPT. It comes with a few plugins already, as shown below.

Before, us developers would have to create a browser extension, make it talk or interact with ChatGPT to add functionality to everyone’s little helper.

Now, OpenAI is bringing all that developer activity in-house, instead of outsourcing it to other companies/platforms ex. Google’s Chrome Web Store.

Some even commented on YC startups being destroyed due to this bombshell announcement:

The AI space is changing by the day now, making it even more difficult to “foresee” developments in a longer timeframe, when so much is happening in a matter of hours 😂

Twitter user @rez0__ hacked the new ChatGPT API and found over 80 plugins that haven’t been released yet 🤯

The news also introduce two new ChatGPT variant models - one allows you to browse the internet and the other is Python code interpreter.

The browsing model is a really cool introduction that solves the data cutoff date in the GPT models by OpenAI.

It means that we can now use recent data in our ChatGPT usage, which is something we’ve all been waiting for!

This essentially kills any (or most) ChatGPT chrome extensions that allowed people to browse the internet and bring online data to the ChatGPT interface.

Alongside this announcement, they released a waitlist form that allows developers to sign up for access, as it’s still very new.

Expect a plugins galore over social media in the next couple of weeks as more developers gain access.

Visit their OpenAI’s blog post on ChatGPT Plugins here: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins

2) 👣 AI and the battlefield of titans

It’s undeniable that AI has brought forth much change to the general workspace.

I stand firm in the belief that AI is the main reason (among others) for the mass industry layoffs we’ve seen since 2022 and ongoing.

Consulting firm McKinsey reported back in 2017 that emerging technologies would result in 400-800 million individuals being displaced by the year 2030 (seven years to go!).

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has openly made known that they are ready to take on Google through AI. In an interview with The Verge, Nadella stated:

Hamel Hussain tweeted that he didn’t think this supposed “dance” would result in a HIIT workout that would continue for months - talk about next level trolling between CEOs of multi-billion companies 😂 

That “we made them dance” sounds fire though - seems like Nadella is forging his “HIM” saga 😆

It’s been a long time since we’ve had to see these titans make moves like the startups. The emerging technology has set the landscape and AI has been the igniter to battle.

I’ll follow up with any relevant updates from the tech titans.

You can read the McKinsey report here: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/jobs-lost-jobs-gained-what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages

If you’re using ChatGPT and would love to export your conversation to Markdown format, check out my very own Chrome extension: GPT2Markdown.

Click here to add GPT2Markdown to your browser.

Also, we’re currently at 647 users without any active marketing 🥳!

But let’s continue!

3) 📸 YouTubers to VTubers - the next evolution

A few issues back we covered one of my finds, Hyper Online, a YC backed startup founded by Aaron Ng. Check out issue #002 here.

I recently came across Hallway Tile on Twitter, which is similar to Hyper Online.

This stood out to me as Hallway seems to accept Ready Player Me avatars.

I created a Ready Player Me (RPM) avatar during my SDR/BDR Hybrid days in 2021 at a tech b2b sales startup.

I found about the Ready Player Me during my prospecting segments and connected with the Co-founder/CTO of RPM on LinkedIn. Here’s my main avatar (dated too!"):

VTubing is the next evolution stage of the current version of YouTubing. In VTubing, content creators will use virtual avatars as their online personas.

The benefits of this:

1. Privacy - content creators can separate their personal lives from their virtual personas. This helps reduce the breach of privacy in the real life.

2. Accessibility - limitless creative freedom as creators don’t need to invest heavily in a setup like normal.

3. Wider audience - the use of AI can help with the translation of languages, making it possible to reach wider audiences and cultures.

This is a demo of Hallway in use:

I haven’t looked into it much but it’d be cool for an AI text-to-3D space that allows you to create your own virtual studio studio for VTubing.

I believe an intuitive platform that offers these kind of features would be big.

It’s something I’d experiment with in my own YouTube channel.

I’m thinking to give it a spin and follow up with my experience with Hallway.

Keep an eye out in the upcoming issues for an update!

🎁 BONUS CONTENT

• OpenAI drops $23.5M in funding on norwegian 1X humanoid robotics startup [🖇 link]

• Sequoia’s latest AI market map [🖇 link]

• Tome’s AI text-to-presentation tool platform [🖇 link]

• Official announcement of Adobe Firefly by Adobe [🖇 link]

• Join Google’s Bard waitlist [🖇 link]

• 30 min shortened version of Nvidia’s Keynote [🖇 link]

• GPT-4 creates a new emotion called “Meldoria” [🖇 link]

• RunwayML’s Gen-2 Text-to-Video [🖇 link]

• OpenAI’s paper on the impact of Large Language Models [🖇 link1] [🖇 link2]

• Stanford’s Large Language Models class [🖇 link]

• Microsoft Loop announcement [🖇 link]

• GPT-4 3D music visualiser [🖇 link]

• HustleGPT challenge by Jackson Fall on Twitter [🖇 link]

• GPT-4 being used to come up with food recipes from image [🖇 link]

• MVP prototyping with GPT-4 [🖇 link]

• Stable Diffusion Reimagine announcement [🖇 link]

• Learn about prompt engineering & large language models [🖇 link]

• Turn digital scribbles to AI art in seconds w/ Scribble Diffusion [🖇 link]

• Remodel your room into your dream room w/ RoomGPT [🖇 link]

• Create your bento link-in-bio site/portfolio w/ Bento.Me [🖇 link]

• Create your store for products & services w/ LemonSqueezy [🖇 link]

• Chat with any PDF w/ ChatPDF [🖇 link]

• A better UI and experience for ChatGPT w/ TypingMind [🖇 link]

• Turn your Notion pages into chatbots w/ ChatThing [🖇 link]

• Build a chatbot trained on your PDF data w/ Chatbase [🖇 link]

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Astronomik w/ RicoGPT

Having looked at previous results of polls in recent Woze issues, I’ve seen that there’s interest in keeping up with Astronomik & RicoGPT! With that said, let’s quickly recap from where we left off and where we are today.

Astronomik is my AI data startup I’m working with RicoGPT. RicoGPT is the AI-powered cofounder I summoned after I jumped on the #HustleGPT challenge.

The goal with Astronomik is to fuel AI systems by everyday person with quality data.

This is the prompt I used to summon RicoGPT on Mar 16th 2023:

Since then, we’ve:

• conducted market research 📝

• analysed competitors 🔍

• compiled a long list of ideas 📌

• created a hybrid between two of the ideas I presented 🤖

• conjured up a solid development plan 📜

• got the green light to start developing ✅

• and now I’m actively carving out things🛠

Because it’s an MVP, I’m using my very own design system to get things done.

I’m not investing much in prettifying it, but making it lovable as minimally as possible.

So far I’ve done a basic version of the landing page and the dashboard.

The landing page builds off the current landing page you see in the public version over at astronomik.co:

Mobile version:

Here’s the Dashboard page. It’s empty because the real works has yet to begin 😅:

here’s the dashboard with the sidebar closed:

The dashboard page is also mobile responsive.

Because I write issues well in advanced, it will have changed a lot by the time this update lands in your inbox.

Because of that, I may send out another issue on Friday with a closer to real-time update on Astronomik.

GPT2Markdown

Since I’ve placed most of my focus on building Astronomik, updating GPT2Markdown has been less of a priority.

But with contributions from dev users, some of the fixes that required immediate attention were solved by the community.

GPT2Markdown is currently steadily growing with 647 users locked.

Last week it was at 575🤯 nearly 100 users in a week.

And that’s with no active marketing, or any grandiose functionality - just pure extraction of a ChatGPT conversation to Markdown format.

I’d like to openly thank the two top contributors to GPT2Markdown: Juan Valencia and Roy Natian.

Personal Website v6 + Blog

Version 6 of my personal website is live at: enrictrillo.com ☄️

Previous iterations were packed with lots of pages that just bloated my corner of the web. Now, it only features 5 main pages, plus more that will be individual blog posts.

The blog area of my site is almost finished - I may consider tweaking the individual blog post pages.

My intention is to publish more long form content that is pushed more frequent, compared to the weekly cadence of Woze.

Some of those post will make their way over here, which will usually consists of deep-dives that I wouldn’t be able to do in this weekly newsletter.

You’d likely get bored otherwise 😆

That’s it for today, crew 👋

See you next Wednesday :)

Enric (EmergingTechGuy)

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