BB Digest: Finally! ChatGPT adds chat search

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TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• GitHub expands beyond OpenAI, ChatGPT gets search, and Google's code is 25% AI-written

• ICYMI: The formula for landing pages that convert + workshop update

• snack n skill - learn to plan effective meetings using AI

• 8 of the best new AI tools

• 6 interesting posts from around the web

• to-do's

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• ChatGPT’s web app now has an option to search old chats. A much-needed feature. All chats (and the content inside, not just titles) are searchable. Also, both the MacOS and Windows desktop apps for ChatGPT have access to Advanced Voice Mode now.

• GitHub's AI strategy is expanding beyond OpenAI. Copilot now supports both Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini models alongside GPT. Plus, GitHub just launched Spark - a new tool that lets anyone create micro-apps using natural language.

• In Google’s Q3 earnings remarks, Sundar Pichai claims that 25% of new code at Google is now written by AI.

• If you hate designing slides and dread that feeling of staring at a blank slide, Gamma is here to help. Gamma has become one of the fastest growing AI web products in the world, adding 25 million new users this past year, and is setting its sights on becoming the modern alternative to Powerpoint.*
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

New blog - The formula for landing pages that convert. This came from our workshop yesterday on how to use AI to write like David Oglivy - recording and prompt sheet are now available.

ps: Today's workshop has been postponed - our expert has 4 kids who’d be very upset if he missed halloween! - we're working on a new date and will update you ASAP.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to plan effective meetings using AI

Most meetings waste time due to poor planning. But with AI assistance, you can streamline preparation and ensure every meeting drives real outcomes.

Step 1. Define your meeting framework

Use Gemini to develop clear objectives, desired outcomes, and selection criteria for your meeting. Start with a simple prompt asking for potential objectives and let AI help you pick the most relevant ones for your timeframe.

Step 2. Build your meeting blueprint

• Compile essential background materials using AI-generated checklists

• Identify key participants and their specific contributions to meeting goals

• Create a time-blocked agenda that maps to your objectives

• Generate focused discussion questions to prevent derailment

• Draft personalized invitation emails for each participant

• Get AI suggestions for pre-meeting preparation steps

Tip: Ask Gemini to identify potential pitfalls and areas that might need deeper discussion. This helps you prepare contingencies and keep the meeting on track.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial. Check it out for one-click copyable prompts and detailed steps to make every meeting count.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Guidde - Create slick video tutorials (onboarding, training, FAQs etc) in minutes, for free. Zero editing skills required.*

• Agentforce by Salesforce is now generally available. Build and deploy AI agents that can autonomously take action across any business function.

• Hiring Assistant by LinkedIn - Let an AI agent take on time-consuming tasks for recruiting and jobs.

• Insuresmart - Convert your insurance chaos into clarity.

• Reflect Webchat - Free Chrome extension that provides an AI-powered chat interface for web pages.

• inncivio - Learn anything faster with personalized Al.

• Sourcely - Find academic sources with AI.

• bolt.new – Prompt, run, edit & deploy full-stack web apps.

More tools here →
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🗣️ Everyone’s talking about

OpenAI released a new benchmark called Simple QA. It includes 4000+ single-line factual questions. It’s designed to be hard for most large language models.

Claude and GPT models perform similarly on the benchmark but numbers for Gemini were not reported. I ran 10% of those questions with Gemini models. The score for Gemini-1.5-Flash is comparable to GPT-4o-mini and the same is true for Gemini-1.5-Pro and GPT-4o.

But, let’s get a little geeky now.

1. The official benchmark uses GPT-4o (a large model) to grade the answers. I used Gemini Flash, a much smaller and cheaper model. I scanned through a 100s of results and I didn’t find any errors in Flash’s grading. It’s an important distinction on how to use these models i.e. given all the important information, Flash’s reasoning is very strong. But if you leave the job of determining facts to it, you are going to get the wrong results.

2. I tested roughly a dozen of the questions that Gemini 1.5 Pro got wrong on the Gemini web app. Since it has access to web searches, I got accurate answers to all of them (even in the free version of Gemini).

3. Google is also adding this web search capability to Gemini API and Google AI studio (starting later today) to ground the model’s answers with Google search.

Read more stories on the Ben’s Bites blog.

 📜 Interesting posts

• Why building in AI is nothing like making conventional software.

• Top 100 AI tools used for work: October 2024.

• How to build an AI search engine (OSS Perplexity Clone).

• Bill Gates on possibility, AI, and humanity.

• Meet the ‘super users’ who tap AI to get ahead at work.

• AI and workers - A fall 2024 scan.

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know if you have any tutorials or courses you want us to create—we’re always open to ideas.

That wraps things up for today! See you again next week. 👋

Ben