Exploring ChatGPT for Coding and Business ✨ 8 Real Examples!

Key Takeaways

so you might have noticed this week that chatgpt has taken the World by storm within just five days of being released it's already gained 1 million users so you might be wondering what is it what it can do and how you might be able to use it today we're going to look at a wide range of examples of what it can do including things like generating an original story turning it into an adventure game writing a formal legal style document writing a technology pattern brainstorming app ideas to generate passive income writing a business plan for one of them eventually even coding it and turning it into a working prototype naturally this sounds like an incredible piece of technology but is it all just hype or could it really be the start of something much bigger let's find out when you load up chat GPT you'll see something like this it's basically just a text box where you can type in anything you want for instance here I'm asking it what is the largest French speaking city in the world by population and here it says Paris France with a population of 2.2 million people which by the way sounds plausible but is actually not correct I'll reveal the real answer by the end of the video You could also use it to generate ideas kind of like a brainstorming partner for example here I'm going to ask it to give me five app ideas to generate passive income that can be developed and maintained by one person and sure enough chatgpt delivers here we have it suggesting things like a subscription-based meal planning grocery delivery service a fitness app that provides personalized workout plans a virtual event planning and management platform a personal finance and budgeting app and a Marketplace for buying and selling secondhand items and it even elaborates a little bit further on each idea with how you can make money from it and what the business would look like to operate now none of these ideas particularly blow me away but they're solid enough so let's see if we can take it further next I'm going to ask Chachi PT to see if it can flesh out a business plan for one of these ideas so here I'm going to say okay write me a business plan for the second idea the workout app and here it goes on to give me an executive summary um the goal of the app is to provide users with personalized workout plans track the progress help them Reach their fitness goals it gives me a market analysis the fitness industry is highly competitive target audience it's even got a section on marketing and sales it mentions the revenue model so it'll be in-app purchases and subscription fees team and resources it can be developed and maintained by a single person so it's good to see that GPT still remembers that requirement from us from the first prompt and the conclusion is overall the fitness app has potential to be a successful and profitable business meeting a strong demand in the market for personalizing convenient workout Solutions now what if I actually want to go ahead and build a prototype for this so first let's start by asking chat GPT to come up with a list of different exercises we can put into our workout and sure enough it does this and it can even list the muscle groups that they exercise but what if I wanted to see the information in the form of a table well it turns out GPT has no problem handling that as well now what if I want to turn this into an actual app so my next prompt for it is write a python flask app for a workout generator it lets the user input how many minutes they want to work out to be and we will pick randomly from a list of workouts to create a personalized plan now I did have to try a couple of different prompts for this at first and I found that it works best when you can be more specific about what you want but anyway it looks like here it's generating my python app and it's even given me instructions on how to run it so let's give it a shot and after following the instructions and then running it locally on my web server I can see that the app works fine but it just kind of returns all the workouts in a list like this without you know any kind of instruction on what sequence I should perform them in or how long I should be doing them so let's ask chat GPT to improve that how do I modify it so the output is in Json format and it tells me how long to do each workout for and each workout should be between 2 and 8 minutes so here it is actually rewriting the entire app for me based on the previous prompts but it's making that modification now this example kind of shows one of the limitations of chat GPT that are when you want even very small changes to an existing piece of code or existing thing that it's already written it rewrites the whole thing again instead of just showing you how to make that specific change compared to something like GitHub copilot which is more surgical in its recommendations this can be really good for sort of General High Level things but if you start wanting to have more control or do more specific things I think it does become a little bit more challenging now when I copy the code and try to run it again I actually ran into a server error so it seemed like chat GPT made a few mistakes in this code the work it did was mostly correct but I found that I actually had to spend a little bit of time just manually fixing some of those bugs not a big problem though after fixing those bugs I ran it again and sure enough here is the properly formatted Json output with the workout and the duration the data is there but it's still pretty raw to show this as a web page I need to have an HTML template so here's going to be my next problem generate an HTML Ginger template to have an input field to enter the workout duration and to display the results from the Json as a table so off it goes and it's saying here is an example Ginger template that you can use to create an HTML page with an input field for the workout duration and a table to display the results from the Json data and it's gone ahead and just written the entire HTML template for me it's even given me instructions on how to use it so to use the template you would need to pass the Json data returned by the flask app as a variable named plan so here it says to render a file named template.html you can use the render template method and it gives me an example note that I will need to have the template HTML file save lived in a templates directory within the flask app so I followed the instructions and the website's starting to come together I can look at the workouts as a table and there's even a button I can use to put in the workout name and generate new personalized workouts it still looks pretty bland though so let's go ahead ask Chachi PT if it can make it look a little bit better for us by generating a CSS style and here's how the app looks now with the CSS modifications that GPT recommended so we've got a branding color we've got a more modern font and I think the table looks better as well and to finish off let's also ask it to come up with a name for the app along with some marketing text the first prompt is come up with five title suggestions for a workout generator app and it's got fit gen workout mixer sweatify body fit planner and fitness Fusion next I'll ask it to generate a brief and snappy and motivating copy for the landing page of the app and here's what it comes up with tired of the old same workout routine mix things up with fit gen our app allows you to create custom workouts tailored to your Fitness levels and goals say goodbye to boring workouts hello to a fitter healthier you with fit gen try it now and Get Fit Fast okay that sounds pretty good so after putting all that in here's what the finished product looks like I can now put in how many minutes I want to train for and it generates a personalized workout plan based on that I think it's pretty incredible that we were able to go from zero to this almost entirely by just conversing in plain human language with chat GPT sure there were a little bit of bugs and hiccups along the way but this technology already goes a long way to help us prototype new ideas really quickly now just reflecting on this coding section I do want to point out some of the problems I've noticed with it as a coding assistant by default chat GPT is actually quite chatty and even if I ask it for a small change or a snippet it tends to try rewriting the whole thing from scratch so that's a bit of a sharp edge for me because it does make the development process quite slow compared to something like GitHub co-pilot another thing that chatgpt seems to be really good at is that it can generate some content whatever content you want in a completely unrelated style and that's actually a really fun thing to try for example here I'm going to ask it to express the rules of secret santa but as a formal legal letter gift limit is 50 dear participants in the secret Santa gift exchange please adhere to the following rules each participant must contribute a wrapped gift with a value not exceeding 50 the identity of the Gift Giver must remain a secret until the designated time for the gift exchange we look forward to a fun and festive secret santa experience happy holidays so now you know next time you need something to sound official you can just ask chat gpe to write it for you after that example I had another idea a couple of years ago I was working on a patent at the company that I worked for and I remember the lawyers billing us something like 500 per hour just to translate software Concepts into legal language so let's see if chat GPT can actually do that for free and here I'm gonna ask it to write me a patent for the technique of turning it off and on again and here's what it comes up with patent application a method for resolving technical issues using power cycling is disclosed the method involves turning off a device and then turning it back on again in order to reset the device and potentially resolve any technical issues the method can be applied to a wide variety of devices identify the device that is experiencing the technical issue turn off the device but wait for a period of time such as 10 seconds to allow the device to fully shut down turn the device back on observe the device to determine if the technical issue has been resolved I mean just reading that it sounds very close to something like what I expected Laura to say now I don't really have any idea how close it is to being viable legal writing but I'm sure there's still going to be a lot of really disruptive use cases from this by the way you could probably also do the reverse and ask chat GPT to explain a complex legal contract for you in simple terms what about creative content well it turns out that chat GPT is also pretty impressive for Creative prompts for example I can ask it to draw a cat in asciard or a cat with a ball but where it really shines is narratives especially if you mix ideas together for example I asked it here to tell me the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the style of lovecraftian horror and it came up with some really Vivid scenes like as Little Red Riding Hood made her way through the forest she noticed that the trees seemed to whisper and writhe in the wind inside she found her grandmother lying in bed pale and sickly but there was something off about her her eyes were glowing with an otherworldly light I think it's really amazing that it's able to synthesize these two sort of very different ideas into a coherent response here's another example where I asked it to write a short adventure story about Jack and his dog again with the Eldritch Horror theme since I enjoyed it so much the first time and as you expect it does a pretty good job of that as well I'm not going to read the entire response but just going through the story it seems to be very well put together so it's got the theme each paragraph advances the story and there's a classical three-act structure with the beginning the middle or the conflict and then the end with a resolution to the story now the story sounds like it could be the narrative for an adventure or a board game so I asked it to tell the story as an interactive story almost like a dungeon master and then give me options to choose from so here it gives me a couple options a b and c in the first one we can decide to continue exploring the cave searching for more treasures and artifacts in the second one we can choose to retreat in the third one option C uh we can try to find the source of the strange noises and the creatures and try to uncover the sequence of the cave so I'm going to go ahead and just type c and it kind of just picks up and continues the story based on that prompt notice that one of the unique features of chatgpt is that it maintains the context of the whole conversation so even with a short one letter prompt like C it is able to pull context from the entire conversation history to give me the reply that kind of continues that trajectory and I could see a lot of use cases for Creative or entertainment uses of GPT for example an AI powered board game experience especially combined with AI art generation tool like Dali or mid journey by the way if you're interested to see how this AI can be used to build something like that then leave a comment in the video and let me know what your ideas are because I think it'd be quite fun and if people are interested then maybe we can build a also I'm going to put a transcript of all of these prompts into the video description so if you want to take a closer look at any of the examples we covered today then just scroll down and click on that link so now that you've seen some examples of what chat GPT can do what do you think about it do you think it could change the world or is it something that's just going to blow over let me know in the comments my first impression is that its knowledge base is extremely wide and it's also exceptionally good at synthesizing very different ideas together as we've seen from the examples however it doesn't go very deep and it begins to struggle as the prompts become more complex to get the workout app to where it was I actually had to re-prompt it several times and fix some of the bugs by hand it can also serve up false or outdated information so remember the first question we asked even though Paris sounds like the correct answer as the most populous French speaking city in the world it was actually dethroned in 2016 by Kinshasa in the Republic of Congo however despite these limitations I still think it's an extremely exciting piece of technology energy and I think it will unlock a lot of opportunities for anybody who can find a way to leverage its potential speaking of which if you are interested in this and you want to try it out for yourself then head on over to chat.openai.com and create an account it's in public beta right now and anyone can create an account and try it for free although I don't know how long that will last for in the coming weeks I plan to spend a bit more time exploring generative Ai and seeing how we can incorporate that into larger scale projects if you're interested to see how that turns out then please subscribe to the channel so that you don't miss those updates and if you enjoyed learning about chatgpt today then also consider checking out my other videos where I talk about its close cousins GitHub co-pilot and gpt3 which were developed by the same parent company open AI finally I asked chatgpt to write a sign off for me for this video and here is what it had to say go ahead and give chatgpt a try we promise you you won't be disappointed except you know if you were hoping to do some actual work in that case you're out of luck thank you for watching and see you in the next one