EP210 WTF is a Custom GPT? (featuring Matt Paige)
Release Date: 02/21/2024
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info_outlineWelcome to The 4am Report, with me your host, Susan Diaz! In this episode, I talk to Matt Paige, Vice President of Marketing at HatchWorks, AI Trainer, and Host of the Built Right Podcast, on the transformative potential of custom Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) for small businesses.
📝 In This Episode we cover:
🥊 The concept of AI agents, also referred to as custom GPTs, which can work autonomously and asynchronously, potentially revolutionizing tasks within organizations and life in general.
💵 How to monetize custom GPTs using platforms like Gumroad. And why ‘the GPT store’, which is not yet monetized may be worth your time.
💻 The evolving role of jobs in the face of AI, with tasks shifting towards more strategic activities rather than repetitive ones.
🏆 The democratization effect of AI on small businesses, allowing them to compete with larger corporations by levelling the playing field.
🤸♂️ The emergence of open-source AI models (Mistral, Llama and more) and their significance in the future of technology for small businesses.
🛒 A look at practical examples of how AI can improve daily life, such as generating meal plans catering to specific dietary requirements.
📕 A use case from Matt on how he used a data science approach to create a custom GPT that performed clustering analysis on an Airbnb dataset, resulting in a marketing strategy that was developed in minutes rather than weeks.
All this, and much more, in this value-packed episode of The 4am Report, focussed on creating AI literacy in the marketing domain, for small businesses.
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🔗 Resources for Deeper Learning:
Connect with Susan Diaz and Matt Paige on LinkedIn to gain AI literacy insights in real time.
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Visit myshowrunner.com to discover our custom GPT that is designed to help podcast guests with pre-production. It cuts guest research time from 90 mins to 5 mins! Embrace AI to amplify your business's reach and efficiency.
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