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Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

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So i guess the next wave of startups has been killed. I'm not even sure what kind of startup still makes sense as a gpt thin wrapper?

Some use cases are still valid I hope. E.g. content generation on a massive scale. An example of that that I'm tinkering with: https://meoweler.com

Can I ask what the goal is here? It's cool to be able to spin up a nicely designed website (and it is nicely designed and has a good aesthetic), but isn't the content going to be semantically empty? I don't want to be negative but it feels like cheap plastic imitation of a real thing, and the web is already full of spammy low quality content. Aren't you in danger of your products having a very short life cycle and ending up as digital landfill, so to speak?

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

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Can anyone explain what "extra knowledge" means specifically? Is that like fine tuning? How much data can I give it to learn? How much can it retain? Can it be updated over time?

The keynote used a .txt file of a lecture that the user uploaded as a data source the model can select from. From a technical perspective, it's anoher data source for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) doing a vector search in the background: https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/knowledge-...

"optimizes for quality by adding all relevant content to the context of model calls." So for their own profits they maximize recall and let GPT handle precision.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, the name "ChatGPT" has quite a bit of mindshare and I've found many non-technical folks referring to any generative AI product as "ChatGPT" or "GPT". Yet, if you asked any single one of them what "GPT" stood for, they'd have no clue.

To be fair, I'm a dev who uses chatgpt on an hourly basis and I had no idea what GPT stood for until I googled it just now. I think it's kinda smart to make people strongly associate GPT with OpenAI

"Generative Pre-trained Transformers" for those who don't want to leave the page.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

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Can anyone explain what "extra knowledge" means specifically? Is that like fine tuning? How much data can I give it to learn? How much can it retain? Can it be updated over time?

I doublt it's fine tuning (actually changing the model weights). It's more like "im going to paste a text blob then in the following chats i will ask questions about it) type inner prompt.

For longer documents it uses vector embeddings

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#166

> The best GPTs will be invented by the community > We believe the most incredible GPTs will come from builders in the community. Whether you’re an educator, coach, or just someone who loves to build helpful tools, you don’t need to know coding to make one and share your expertise. “Please work for us for free, while we keep all the product of your work for ourselves like we did with the content we scraped on the int…

Isn’t that the game they all play? Amazon Marketplace. Apple App Store. Let the guinea pigs run. See which one gets the furthest. Then take away its lunch.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

#167

I wonder how much money I could make making "GPTs" full time. Barrier to entry is nonexistent so I imagine highest revenue ones if this becomes a serious thing people use will be advertised externally or have some proprietary info/access.

I'm more confused how the revenue share works. Do they get part of my ChatGPT subscription fee? Am I paying extra? Per bot? Per amount of time I consult with the bot?

Yeah he didn’t explain at all how GPTs would be monetized.

Re: GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

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post #33

I wonder how much money I could make making "GPTs" full time. Barrier to entry is nonexistent so I imagine highest revenue ones if this becomes a serious thing people use will be advertised externally or have some proprietary info/access.

> I wonder how much money ... I saw that announcement and my immediate thought was "God yet another thing passive income youtubers will be shilling soon" In general, I was a little confused by this. Sam's demo of creating a GPT didn't seem particularly exciting as well.

I would pay money for a GPT that was incredible at naming types in Swift

I’d pay for one that was good at programming rubber ducking

There are specific sub-tasks that everyone would pay for to make their lives easier. This marketplace is trying to make that efficient

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