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Start your free trial today. Welcome to the ChatGPT podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the podcast, we are going to be talking about why hashtag OpenAI is trending on Twitter.
I mean, really, there's like four or five stories here, but I'm just going to dive into all of them and give you all the latest and greatest in AI news this wonderful Saturday. So I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. And without further ado, let's dive into it. So I think one of the first stories is that over the last few days, there's something called ChatGPT for GPT for free.
It's a project on GitHub that went sort of viral. Essentially, a developer went and he figured out how to pretty much kind of hack some APIs together to make it so that people could use ChatGPT for free. And essentially what he was doing was just piggybacking off of other big companies that used GPT for integrated into what they were doing, specifically U.com, which is like a search engine. And it has GPT for built into it.
So essentially, he was piggybacking off of that, building an API that people could connect GPT for into stuff. And it's going to be interesting. So apparently the reason that this is, the news with this is essentially that their legal team got back to him and gave him a cease and desist, as you can imagine, for giving out, I'm actually surprised it's opening AI. They gave out the cease and desist considering it's U.com that's the one getting abused in the situation.
You imagine it was U.com considering it went so viral. But it's kind of interesting because obviously there's people like, oh man, this is unfair, this is a big company, but like obviously mooching off people. But the interesting bit with all this to me is like, how do, I guess, how do these companies really stop this? Like eventually everyone's going to have GPT for or another AI integrated into all their tools.
It's just the direction that software is going in general. And the problem is with all of these AIs integrated into everything, if you're not like a very niche specific area, right? Like if I'm not, you know, doing GPT for for lawyers and like going down some specific route for lawyers, but like just doing everything generally like a search engine, like I don't see why people wouldn't just, I'm sure products like that exist, right? Companies just build things and people figure out if you don't need like an account or it's free to use, they'll just like figure out ways to scrape it or to let other people use that information for free.
So I don't really know exactly what the long-term solution between before, other than just sending like a single developer a legal notice to cease and desist, because you can imagine thousands of developers could be doing this and could do it from all sorts of places and maybe they're like not telling people he has went viral and told a lot of people he open sourced it or whatever. So like in the case that someone just kind of low-key does it, people are going to do it. It went viral so everyone knows about it, I don't know what their plan is in the future. So that's just an interesting food for thought.
I think he got ChatGPT to write him a little poem about the whole incident. I'll read it too. It's kind of funny and I think it gives like what his vibe is and what a lot of other developers' vibe is around this whole thing. Anyway, it says, a little boy sat in his humble abode, he tinkered and toyed with dev tools galore and found himself curious, eager for more.
He copied and pasted, requested with glee and delight, a personal project to last him the night for educational purposes and fun it was too. The little boy's journey had just begun anew. From far away in the tower so grand, the big company stood ruling the land, their software was mighty, their power supreme. But they never expected this boy in his dream as he played with their code, they started to fret.
What if he breaks it? What if we're upset? They panicked and worried, their faces turned red as visions of chaos danced in their head. The CEO pasted his office so wide, his minions all scrambled to hide.
Who's this child? He cried out in fear. Who dares to disrupt their digital sphere? The developers gathered their keyboards ablaze to analyze the boy's mischievous ways.
They studied his project, they poured through his code and soon they discovered his humble abode. We must stop him, they cried with a shiver. This little boy's making our company quiver so they plotted and schemed to halt his advance to put an end to his digital dance. Anyways, okay, you get the picture.
Like, small indie dev and he does this little thing, but like, obviously you see the side from OpenAI so I won't dive into it. I just thought it was kind of funny and obviously it's a little argument going on on Twitter. Okay, piece of information number two. This is just funny.
A lot of people are saying like OpenAI is getting a little bit ridiculous. There's a picture of a Discord moderator job position posted from OpenAI where essentially it says the annual salary for this role is $180,000. U.S. total compensation also includes generous equity and benefits, medical, dental, vision, wellness support, 401k, 4% matching, unlimited time off and 18 plus company holidays a year, parental leave, 20 weeks, annual learning and development stipend, $1,500 a year.
Okay, yeah, yeah, everyone's just, you know, gawking over that $180,000 a year to be a Discord moderator, right? If you don't use Discord, it's like a chat room, it's like a Facebook group, whatever, and they're just managing people on there. So, you know, people are saying that's pretty massive salary, especially when Amazon just laid off 9,000 people and all the tech companies are laying off people and then, you know, OpenAI just got their $10 billion from Microsoft so they're kind of going crazy spending money on all sorts of things. So that's kind of funny.
People are criticizing it. Okay, this is an amazing chat GPT thread. I probably should have liked this one because those other ones are kind of just like funny. But this one is by the CEO of DoNotPay.
He's been like in the AI game from the very beginning. Honestly, I've been pretty impressed because he has a software company, but he really like, as soon as chat GPT launched, he was one of the first of these guys that really was like dialed into like talking about how they're integrating AI into the product. And if you don't know, he's kind of like a consumer protection company who helps people get out of traffic tickets and parking tickets. That was the start and now it's just expanding to getting out of all sorts of legal problems, consumer protection, renegotiating your bills with Comcast or other, you know, I'm up $217.85 and this is the strange ways it is saving me money.
He said, first using DoNotPay's Plaid connection, I had to log into every bank account and credit card that I own and scan 10,000 plus transactions. It found $80 leaving my account every month in useless subscriptions and offered to cancel every single one. The bot got to work mailing letters in the case of gyms using the USPS lob API, chatting automatically with agents and even clicking online buttons to get them canceled. Example of how it works below.
Now that the easy savings were out of the way, I wanted to go deeper. I asked it to scan the same transactions and find me one where I could get an easy refund. First from my email, it identified a United Airlines in-flight Wi-Fi receipt for $36.99 from London to New York and then asked me did it work properly. When I said no, it immediately drafted a persuasive and firm legal letter to United requesting a refund.
The letter was both legalistic citing FTC statutes and convincing. I bought then sent it to them via their website. Within 48 hours, United agreed to refund me the $37. I wanted to take a break from saving money and ask ChatGPT4 about my credit score using the Array API.
It got my score and report without advertisements or trying to sell me a credit card. Okay, honestly, that's pretty nice if anyone's messing around with anything on credit scores and that kind of stuff. It's always, you know, credit card, all that. He said I'm currently working on several GPT4 credit disputes and will report back.
Now it was time to unleash GPT4 on my bills. I'm a customer of Comcast and so I asked it to negotiate my bill when Comcast offered a $50 discount in the bot pushback. It said no, I want more and it got it to over $100. GPT3.5 apparently never pushed back on that kind of stuff so they're saying they're seeing some pretty big differences between 3.5 and 4 in that regard.
He said I'm already up to $217 in under 24 hours and have dozens of other disputes pending my goal to have GPT4 make me $10,000. We're building do not pay chat to be available as a chatGP plug-in on our website and even via iMessage consumer rights it's a perfect job for AI. Obviously this guy is the CEO of that company so too in his own horn and probably talking about a lot of different technologies and things that may not be all publicly available or fully functioning to the max. Just speaking from experience I feel like that's CEOs are optimistic about what they can do and it may not be able to nail that every time for everyone but those are pretty cool incredible use cases that inevitably will be rolled out in the future for a lot of different products so that is an amazing use case.
Something else that is in the news recently is that OpenAI they raised $300 million at a $27 to $29 billion valuation. What they're talking about here because we all know that they raised $10 billion from Microsoft pretty much what happened was the way that OpenAI was structured from the beginning it was a non-profit and it went to a for-profit and it made it really hard for employees to cash out on the stock options and to have stock options period that was the problem with the non-profit so once it switched to a for-profit which this is kind of one of the like arguments I guess that Sam Altman like the reasons why he says it needs to be a for-profit one of his reasons that's sort of compelling is the fact that employees can actually get shares in the company like a normal tech company and then they can sell them so they actually get some sort of benefit from making the company successful. This is normal in every single other software company OpenAI started because it was a non-profit do I think it was right to switch from a non-profit to a for-profit personally absolutely not I think that's ridiculous was it necessary to become the company that they are today that's up for debate in any case it happened and so what is happening today is that a lot of those early employees are allowed to sell their stock options on the secondary market and so that I think is where the $300 million came from I don't believe that that was strictly OpenAI raising that money just straight to their bank although I would verify that but that's just going on Twitter I was kind of talking about it good for the employees a lot of people became millionaires and you know good for them you got in early and you hustled and you got your stock options then great one last thing to finish off it's kind of funny everyone's talking about AutoGPT and everything it can do at the moment right you need kind of to be a developer to use it since it's like a GitHub project AutoGPT if you don't know is essentially creating a whole bunch of AI agents that you just give it a task and it can take whatever means necessary to get the task done so if you're like you know save me money it will just go through a whole bunch of different things try saving money or start me a business it will do a whole bunch of research and tell you how to start a business whatever beyond just like one chatbot it's like you know maybe like 100 chatbots you can open new chatbots and give them new projects and tasks and research in any case someone said I asked AutoGPT to figure out if we live in a simulation five minutes in it decided it should also develop its own simulations with the potential for creating self-aware or conscious entities anyways and they're like I messed up anyways it's funny that's its way of you know figuring out if we live in simulations to create simulations I guess compare but in any case I mean it just illustrates the power of AutoGPT you give it a task and it can take really unexpected turns to achieve what you've asked it to do which is pretty cool to be honest having that sort of functionality really impressive for the team over at AutoGPT and all the devs kind of working on that people mentioned that I've been slacking so I can promise weekly maybe not daily AI newsletter to find out the latest that is happening every week in AI we love our Facebook group we have over 1200 people on there so if you're working on anything in AI have any questions or have experience to share we'd love to see you in the group it's super active and I'm always amazed by the projects and ideas tips and tricks I see in there so thank you so much for joining the podcast have a wonderful rest of your day and I'll see you next time