Exploring OpenAI's Latest: ChatGPT Pulse & Group Chats

Welcome to the AI Applied Podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer, here with the legendary Connor Grennan, of course. And today we're talking about OpenAI. They have a bunch of cool new announcements and a feature that Connor can just not get enough of that I actually don't use at all. So I really wanted to make this episode. So Connor is going to be selling me on this to see if he can get me to use ChatGPT Pulse. Apparently he loves it. The other thing we wanted to mention is that ChatGPT has just launched group chats, which is I have a couple theories on this, but I want to pick Connor's brain on it as well. And of course, we're going to talk about how to apply this to your working career, how you can use some of these tools to become more productive with whatever you do. So we know we have a lot of listeners that are using this for work and for enterprise. And so I think we have some good tips for you. Kicking this off over at you, Connor, like talk to me about Pulse. I see this all the time when I open my ChatGPT app. It's like recommended. It's on the side of my desktop, but I never click on it. I think I might have clicked on it to try it out once. Tell us what it is, like, for those that haven't even tried it yet and what you use it for. Well, sometimes we talk about a feature when it comes out, Jaden, and then we don't really revisit it or something like that. Yeah. Pulse, you know, as you and I talked about before, I'm like, Jaden, I love Pulse. And you're like, let's talk about that right now. So the cool thing about all this, I think, first of all, is, yeah, OpenAI is just flying right now, right, with 5.1, which we talked about, I think, earlier. Like, I really like 5.1. I think it's a huge upgrade, actually. I haven't tried 5.1 Pro, but let me just talk about Pulse for a second because the group chats one is an interesting one. I'm very curious to see if it goes. I've seen people on X be like group chats is underrated. It's going to be huge. I think those are probably like some people either coming from OpenAI or not. But it might be. I'm skeptical a little bit on group chats because I think that the best way to work with a chatbot like this is you have to be in person with other people in the chatbot. You have to actually – this is what we teach all the time. You have to treat the chatbot like a person. We do a lot with this kind of work with like Microsoft and other places. So I don't know if that will work any more than I know. Like, you know, when you like share conversations, I don't think that that ever really took off because I don't think it's that valuable because your personal conversation with ChatGPD is very personal to you. It's your brainstorming method. It's very fast. And so you send it to somebody. And I don't think that ever caught on because like I don't want to follow your whole brainstorming session. Just tell me where you landed on it. So that felt like really overblown. So I'm curious about group chats and what your take on it. Okay, guys, two seconds on Pulse. Now, I think this comes, Jaden, right with a $200 a month plan. So this is clearly not for everybody. This is my world. Actually, Jaden, do you have the $20? Actually, it is. Yeah, well, at least I have the $20 plan and I get it. Okay, so maybe everybody has Pulse. I apologize. I wasn't sure who has it. Pulse is my favorite thing almost on the internet these days. And here's the reason. This is maybe specific to me, Jaden, so check me on this. But for me, you know, back in the day, it was like, oh, pre-write your social media posts. I don't do that. I write my own social media posts. I create them all every single morning. I post every day on LinkedIn. And the reason is that helps me follow the news. It helps me track the news. But the part that I hated was, okay, where do I find all this stuff? You know what I mean? Like where do I you know and I see other people like grabbing these studies So basically I just told ChatGBT hey I interested in like what the latest research It knows from memory that I really interested in adoption all that kind of stuff But here's the thing that blows me away. It's perfect. Every day it's like, hey, Connor, here's like, let's parse out, you know, McKinsey's state of AI report, which just came out, which was very, very good, by the way. Here's some of like the really cool things about this. And it looks great. And then the next thing is like, and here's some adoption statistics from The Economist that says like how blah, blah, blah. And it does like three of those. So already it like lays it out. And then the next thing it'll do is like, hey, I know you were thinking a lot about how you create this or how you think about this. Let's talk about this. Here's some ways. And it does it as if I've prompted it perfectly. That's the next thing it does. And by the way, this is an amazing user interface. Jaden is showing it if you're on YouTube. But like, you know, it's almost like little cards where it shows like a little image. So it's almost as if you're reading a really friendly newsletter or something like that, but where you choose to dive in. And then, like, let's say I'm meeting the, you know, the CEO of like, you know, Nationwide tomorrow or Ace Hardware or something like that or whatever. It'll be like, hey, I see you're meeting. So it's connected to my calendar, which I forgot. It is. And it's like, hey, Connor, at noon, you're meeting, you know, KKR or something like that. Like, here's some stuff about what they're doing. And so it's prepping me for meetings too. Jayden, it's unbelievable. Okay. Okay, I am scrolling my account, which I set up at some point, but haven't really touched. And I am, I definitely can see the, I definitely can see the value. It's basically giving you ideas about like, for me anyways, about my like work and my businesses and like how to level them up based off of conversations I've had in the past. I think it has a pretty good understanding of like what I'm working on. But it's like, this is something that Connor and I talk about all the time that we need to do like clips for our podcast for these podcasts. We don't really post on social media much. We just record and move on. But we're like, oh, there's so much good content. We should make clips. Okay, well, today the top thing that it is recommending me is a bunch of AI tools for effortless podcast clips. I'm like, oh, my gosh. It knows me so well. All right, so click on that, though. Here, Jade, what happens when you click on that? What is it showing you? So then it gives me a full article where it is saying a few ways to boost my social media. And then it recommends some tools, Riverside, and they have something called Magic Clips. We record with Riverside, so I think it knows that. So it's recommending a feature inside of the platform we use, which, I mean, this is kind of hilarious because literally we are recording this on a platform that has a functionality, talking about how we never do something, but this platform has a functionality. I never do it. And ChatGPT is like, you should just use the platform you always use and the functionality on there. Do what you want to do. So anyways, thank you, ChatGPT, for pointing out the obvious, what I should be doing. It also recommends Opus Clip, another platform I've tried in the past. Let me just sort of like walk the listener through this because you might not be watching it. This isn't like it grabbed an article from TechCrunch on best. Like this is part – this is anticipating what you're trying to do, which literally I know we're anticipating because, Jaden, you and I, before we got on the pod, we had like a little internal team meeting kind of thing on like, hey, so what's next for us and all that kind of stuff. Like we're doing some big, exciting things together, you and I, and you and some really cool guests coming on, all that kind of stuff. And this is literally just chat GPT as if it was another teammate listening in being like okay well I went out and got you some information and did some of my own research It not just like giving you a link to an article It actually thinking on your behalf and pulling from like the verge and Riverside and things like that to me is incredible. I'm not pitching this by the way. I'm just sort of saying I think it's incredible. Yeah, no, so cool. In fact, I was scrolling down a little bit earlier and actually have a, I have like a SAS platform that I'm in the process of talking to some people about like acquiring or selling or something. And it has this whole, like, I saw one of the cards lower is like this whole list. It's like how to better position this company. So like you can increase your valuation and like, you probably should start positioning it this certain way and focusing on like, it just like knows all my business, which is, I guess it's a, it's a scary one to do a screen share of and scroll through. Everyone knows like everything I'm searching on chat, GPT frequently. But like, yeah, overall, I can see definitely how this is very valuable. So, and my curiosity for you, because I get inundated with so much information, my newsletter, my email is always full of content. Do you sit there every day and click on all of these or you just click on one or two that seem interesting to you? Because, I mean, I can see like, and that look kind of customized. But one of them was like, about like, North Carolina power grid updates. And yes, I live in North Carolina, but I don't really care about the power grid upgrades over here. So like, I don't know, where are you at on it? Is yours just more fine tuned on its algorithm? it's it's it's maybe a little bit more fine-tuned but not that much right i mean like so for some reason it's just and by the way i don't click on it every day um but i kind of just like when i do which is probably like maybe three times a week or something like that i'm like this is a because usually like you know jayden have the starts like you and i both have kids like your day starts and like you're already off and running and this morning uh you know sorry to out myself here a little bit but like i was in like two different bible studies this morning starting from like 6 a.m so like my morning is like shot right so but that's when i like just click on pulse i wasn't going to like the information and tech crunch everything like what I like to do when I'm just to sort of give you guys a sense of like my process like you know I'm on LinkedIn every day and so I just try to figure out like what's in the zeitgeist what's in the news you know things like that like what am I you know what's what am I looking at uh what are people talking about on x what do sort of people seem interested in is there a new study out something like that and then I'll go and I'll read it also sort of like screenshot the Bloomberg article and then write about that but I have to you know read it and process it and all that kind of stuff and this is just it really understands it's as if I have an assistant and I know that's a cliched word at this point but it's like I had an assistant that did this for me it really is I'm not a big agent guy who keeps saying see you're the agent I'm just not a big agent guy this feels like an agent this feels like something that went through but Jaden the cool thing it did this morning too was it's like hey listen also you know I know you just like you know you love like you know Virginia sport like University of Virginia sports and you love like you know the Giants here's like some interesting stories like you just threw it in there because what it also does is it tests things out and i'm like it's like so just take a break from work how about like let's talk about this i just thought that was awesome that's really cool one of the things that i do like i noticed is there's a curate button um and it's like build around what you care about and you basically can go and tell it specifically keep me updated on this or i'm curious about this i'd like to learn more about this share anything you can put like specific things in there and i really like um i like any of these platforms where you can fine your algorithm essentially unlike meta or like Instagram where you got to like if you want to see like a certain thing on Instagram you have to go and search for that thing and click like on like 10 things related to it I know like an example is I have like a podcast studio in Arizona And when I log into Instagram account I just want it to be like podcast studio, like news and information. And so when I first made that account, I was just like clicking on 1000 different podcast studios and liking and commenting on every single one just to try to like flood the algorithm over there. It is pretty annoying. And then anything that's like not related, you're just like not interested in this, not interested in this. It's kind of annoying to have to like tune your algorithm. So I appreciate that they've made it where you can just straight up say what you're interested in. And I can see how that'd be very useful. My last question for you, Connor, is if at some point you have an actual personal assistant that follows you around 24 seven and does everything that you need help with, would you send them to go check your pulse for you? Or would you still read your daily morning? Such a good question. I would probably send them right. And I mean, it's and you're right that it It gets a little personal because it's sort of like maybe things I was asking about. You know, the other day it was like, what was it? I'm like, oh, man, I feel like really bloated or something like that. I'm like, I don't want to feel bloated. Like I'm about to do this like big photo. Like I'm about to do this big thing with like Washington Post or something like that. Right. I'm like, I don't want to feel bloated for that. And so I asked ChatGPT. That was like, I don't know, a week ago or something like that. And then this morning ChatGPT was like, hey, listen, well, if you don't want to feel bloated, I'm like, hey, brother, like, you know what? Can you not like, can you get out of my business? I'm sorry, man. just like embarrassing like i don't want to say that on like a podcast as i announced it on a podcast i was feeling but like but you know it's but it's so you have to sort of like fine tune it but the really cool thing jaden and i'll i'll leave it to you to close out in a second but like it said it's it was what it does so well is it doesn't just say what do you want what are you interested in it sort of like starts to sort of say like i think you're interested in is this right or is this right it's sort of like the way liz you know my wife liz uh who you know is is like she doesn't say hey if i if there's anything i can do she's like hey can i know you're in the hospital. Can I bring you dinner? Can I bring your kids dinner? Can I do like, it's like that. And then it allows you to sort of like fine tune first, second, third drafts of it, which I find super helpful rather than just be like, what are you interested in? So I love that feature. I'm obsessed with it. Okay. Thank you so much for sharing all of your use cases. You might have turned me into a believer on this one. I'll have to go like fine tune my algorithm on it a little bit. And if it could give me good stuff, I might be sold for life. So I hope you get a generous commission from, uh, from the overlords at Chatshifti. Sam Altman himself should send you affiliate check for that one. Thank you everyone so much for tuning into the podcast today. If you enjoyed having Connor teach us about a new tool and platform and way to think about AI, because I think more than showing us this tool, you're showing us some good ways to think about it. I would highly recommend you go check out Connor's AI mindset course. This is the number one way I think you can upskill yourself, but not just yourself. Honestly, this is something I would recommend you get for your organization or talk to your manager, or if you are the manager, Find a way to get everyone in your organization to take this course. 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