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Today we’ll cover:

• What GPT are and why they’re important now

• GPT Store and how it will develop an ecosystem like the App Store

• GPT interactions and Agents

Let’s dive in!

What are GPTs and why are they important now?

GPTs, or Generative Pre-trained Transformers, are a type of artificial intelligence model that uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like text. These models are trained on vast amounts of data and can be used for a variety of tasks such as language translation, content creation, and answering questions.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will already know it’s a hot topic right now because it was the main launch at OpenAI’s DevDay last week, where Sam Altman showed how to build your own GPT in just 4 minutes.

So what’s the difference with ChatGPT? The ‘pre-trained’ part is the key. Basically, on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, users are able to provide specific (and private, we’ll get to that later) sets of data and instructions to make a customized version of the model. It’s basically yet another way to get people to use the technology, and build more use cases on top, which should address:

No-Prompt: The more ‘pre-training’, the less prompting you need to do, meaning you should a) save time b) ensure consistency

Specificity: We are all unique snowflakes, meaning we want every possible way to personalize our services. Providing our own data sets and instructions means it will be a much more customized output.

Self-Service: By being able to actually build this kind of technology ourselves, with no code, we are not going to be reliant on developers or third parties to make them. This is a game-changer. Think you’re back in 2005, before the App Store launched and you were able to turn your ideas into reality just by using natural language.

GPTs = Apps

A basic, but solid analogy, is that GPTs are basically apps. Simple, right now, but complex and even more powerful, in the future. The basic layer is the conversational mode, but through first and third-party plugins, you’re able to actually have software do stuff for you (which yes, includes going to meetings in your place).

The Creation of a New Ecosystem

Much like the App Store Ecosystem, we will have the GPT Store Ecosystem. Currently, the functionality is in beta (for ChatGPT plus users) and there are a few GPTs built by OpenAI itself (‘By ChatGPT’) or any others that you’ve built, or used.

Given how recent this is, there are only a few resources outside of the ChatGPT store, but it’s only a matter of days until you will see them crop up everywhere.

One example is AllGPT, a directory that tries to collect GPTs by category, and has some interesting finds (I personally liked ‘Disagree with me’ as a contrarian Chatbot, I think that we should all have that kind of soundcheck on our ideas more often..)