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ChatGPT Can Now Browse, Shop, and Act on Your Behalf

ChatGPT Can Now Browse, Shop, and Act on Your Behalf

I have to say, this is coming too fast for even me now. I figured we'd have four to six months before kludgy plug-ins started popping into people's lives.…

Stanford Rebuilt ChatGPT for $600

Stanford Rebuilt ChatGPT for $600

Technically possible and not expensive — Stanford rebuilt ChatGPT for $600 last week. That's the headline version, and it's close enough to the truth to take…

Google Bard Is Actually Good at One Thing

Google Bard Is Actually Good at One Thing

A bit of an update on Bard. I've now decided it's pretty darn good at identifying accurate facts and data. Ask it a question and you get a good answer, which…

Where I See All of This Going

Where I See All of This Going

Here's where I see all of this going — my own predictions for what historians may recall when they look back on these early days from a handful of years out.…

This WordPress Chatbot Plugin Uses Your Own Content

This WordPress Chatbot Plugin Uses Your Own Content

This is pretty cool, I think — and a bit technical, perhaps. I've been playing around with a WordPress plugin that has OpenAI read through all of your website…

ChatGPT is about to get cheap

ChatGPT is about to get cheap

The cost of building something like ChatGPT, not including the parental governor sitting on top, is falling fast enough that just about any reasonably sized…

Cranking Out Sites With AI

Cranking Out Sites With AI

I'm cranking out sites and content daily, as ideas come to mind. The toolkit is simple. WordPress, which at the start of this year ran 43.1% of all websites by…

Bing's Chatbot Pushes Bounds

Bing's Chatbot Pushes Bounds

There's a conversation with Bing's new AI in today's New York Times that is definitely creepy on a level that actually pushes bounds. It's behind a paywall, so…

A WordPress Plugin That Lets AI Run the Site

A WordPress Plugin That Lets AI Run the Site

I've been thinking about how to cobble together three things: API access to OpenAI, a credit card and a server. With those, I'd build a WordPress plug-in that…

Launching a New Business Is Basically Easy as Pie Using GPT

Launching a New Business Is Basically Easy as Pie Using GPT

Just a heads up: launching a new business is basically easy as pie using GPT. I've used it to create nearly the entire website for the new business I'm…

Who Owns What GPT Writes

Who Owns What GPT Writes

All the content, and all the pieces, are complete. Now I just have to follow GPT's instructions — which will be my first post on the site. Before publishing…

A 6-week coding course plus an AI multiplier could make me dangerous

A 6-week coding course plus an AI multiplier could make me dangerous

It makes me wonder whether a six-week crash coding course is worth it. That, coupled with an AI multiplier, could make me dangerous. The logic is simple…