How you can benefit from OpenAI assistants

OpenAI assistants are a new piece of technology, the worlds top AI company released last week. They are behind the juggernaut, ChatGPT. The product now has an extensible ecosystem that will be built around it.

These are called assistants, and they have some quite awe inspiring potential. Readmore to find out ;)

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OpenAI Assistants

Last week OpenAI snapped the AI world against its knee, again. Now users can interface with a specific document, and external data source without leaving chat gpt. This kills a lot of the development that was happening.

You can go set up a GPT that executes code and does a lot of the boring work you used to have to do. The age of automation in white collar work is happening, quickly.

Even better, you’ll be able to share and use other’s apps. The apps (they call them gpts but that’s a stupid name), can enrich a usage experience and are probably the first step into a new era of computing.

By connecting to other data sources and curated pieces of text, an assistant can follow a procedure, understand what is happening in the world (in real time), and act upon it.

So imagine you are an analyst who works with a google sheet. That sheet requires you to look at a some data, and make a recommendation. Since Tuesday we can build an app, that takes in the data, makes the decision, writes some code and updates the sheet.

I’m working on a longer piece of writing where I build a few of these and get a better feeling for how they work.

Please take into consideration that you’re sending your data to a company that has already done some questionable things. Protect your privacy.