When OpenAI introduced different folks might construct their very own customized variations of ChatGPT-style chatbots, I was initially solely excited about a journalistic method. I knew this was an attention-grabbing business step for OpenAI, but the worth of the shop continues to be an open query. Why ought to I use most GPTs (because the bots are referred to as), when I can normally name up an app that does the identical factor? But I can’t deny there’s one extremely helpful bot that’s modified a (small) a part of my work life for the higher. It’s referred to as “What’s Another Word For,” and I made it myself.
“What’s Another Word For” is a software to assist me find precisely that: one other phrase for phrases I overuse. Writing is about 60 p.c wanting for a synonym to keep away from repeating phrases, and it’s not all the time simple to recollect synonyms. Until the beginning of December, if I wanted to use a phrase like “identify” a number of instances in a sentence (which occurs extra typically than you’d assume writing about AI techniques), I turned to Google. If I didn’t just like the choices on the outcomes web page, I needed to click on by to a web site like Thesaurus.com and undergo its record.
My personal synonym-finding GPT automates that course of, and constructing it was easy — the toughest half was hitting on the concept within the first place. OpenAI makes it simple to create GPTs; all it’s a must to do is inform ChatGPT what you need to make (I prompted it to create a GPT that lists synonyms), give parameters on the bounds (I informed it to solely reply to questions on synonyms, antonyms, and definitions), and ship it off to the races. I can sort in a question now like “Give me another word to use instead of research,” and it’ll reply with “Instead of research, you can use investigation.” I can ask it to present me a record or inform it to present me a totally different possibility.
Since I obtained “What’s Another Word For” up and working, it’s turn into a common a part of my course of. I maintain it open in a browser tab, and as an alternative of turning to Google, I ask the GPT for assist discovering phrases.
It’s shaved off perhaps 30 seconds from writing a fast information publish
It appears trivial, but it’s been extremely useful for somebody who continually wants to recollect tips on how to keep away from repetition. Sure, I can maintain Thesaurus.com open in a tab on a regular basis, but it’s filled with banner advertisements and annoyingly sluggish. Having my GPT open is best: there aren’t any advertisements, and I can scroll as much as my earlier queries.
OpenAI needs to make creating GPTs simple so it might argue that AI helps folks work. Custom GPTs are a paid product that’s solely obtainable to customers of ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Team, and ChatGPT Enterprise. For now, accessing customized GPTs by the GPT Store is free for paying subscribers, although OpenAI has mentioned it should pay creators based mostly on utilization metrics. Unsurprisingly, some AI girlfriends and boyfriends however, many of the apps I discovered remedy productiveness points. (I might have made the fiftieth model of a PDF summarizer, if I have been so inclined.)
Though I’ve come to depend upon my GPT, it’s the one one I use. It’s not absolutely built-in into my workflow both, as a result of GPTs dwell within the ChatGPT Plus tab on my browser as an alternative of inside a program like Google Docs. And actually, if I wasn’t already paying for ChatGPT Plus, I’d be glad to maintain Googling different phrases. I don’t assume I’ll be giving up “What’s Another Word For” any time quickly, but until one other sizzling GPT concept strikes me, I’m nonetheless undecided what they’re good for — at the very least in my job.
