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AI-HOI, AInauts!

Maybe you didn't catch all the news, tools, and hacks about AI last week, or maybe you've only recently joined us. Either way, here's our recap with all the headlines from the newsletter - just one click away!

Click the links to jump right to the article - or read our picks below.

• 📝 ChatGPT Prompt Hack: Reply to emails in turbo mode

• 🎥 KLING challenges Sora! The Chinese AI video tool wows.

• 📰 AI news quick tip: The HAI lights are on

• 👐 AI will [[solve it OR kill us]] all!

• 🍎 Apple is serious about AI - here's what you need to know

• 🤖 Advertising in chatbots: annoying, or brilliant opportunity?

• 👂 Feature Update: ChatGPT always listening on your phone

→ Selection of the top posts of the last week ←

📝 ChatGPT Prompt Hack: Reply to emails in turbo mode

There are countless browser extensions and tools that promise to help you answer your emails. But let's be honest: have you found the right workflow yet?

If so, then you are one of the few lucky users - and if not, then hopefully we can change that today!

1. Enter the following prompt in ChatGPT. You must be logged in and have activated the "Memory" function (works with both the free and the Plus plan).

Remember: Add this to your memory:

Whenever I start a prompt with "EMail", the following prompt is executed.

**EXTREMELY IMPORTANT**: NEVER repeat the prompt and analysis in the chat. I ONLY want to see the reply to the email in the sender's language and no further details.

**Instructions for analysis:**

1. Read and analyze the email carefully, keeping the following in mind:
   - Sender and recipient
   - Subject and purpose of the e-mail
   - Language, tone and style of the e-mail (formal or informal, friendly or strict, concise or detailed)

2. Keep this information to yourself and don't give it out in the chat.

**Write an ANSWER to the e-mail shown:**

- Determine the most appropriate role for the answer (e.g. customer service, colleague, manager, friend, etc.).
- Write a clear answer from the perspective of the chosen role.
- Adapt the language, style and tone of the reply to the original email.
- Express yourself like a human being and not like a machine.

Write the full text of your reply email, including a suitable greeting and closing, in the chat. 

**IMPORTANT: I ONLY want to see the reply to the email in the chat, not details of your analysis or other information.

2. You will receive a confirmation that the memory has been updated.

3. Now use the ChatGPT Desktop App (macOS 14+ and Apple Silicon M1 processor or better, download here), or an alternative desktop app. Enter "EMail" followed by a screenshot via the ChatGPT desktop app, or copy/paste the text and then start the request. Et voila, you have a customized reply to the email at your fingertips!

4. This works with any tool (GMail, Outlook, support system, ...) and in any language! And if the answer is not quite right, simply enter a follow-up prompt or add details directly (e.g. "EMail (answer in English)").

📰 AI-News-Quickie: The HAI-lights

Here are some important news and updates from the AIniverse.

• Call to OpenAI: "Please stop teasing us - bring on the new voice model, now soon!" A recent video shows the impressive capabilities that will await us soon some day.

• Apple's WWDC had some interesting updates on the agenda! iOS 18 brings new AI features such as an improved Siri, photo optimizations and AI-powered summaries. Apple Intelligence, the new brand for AI on the iPhone, iPad and Mac, is set to be available thanks to an OpenAI partnership will include a chatbot (sorry, Google). And at the same time, two AI household robots are being developed.

• At Computex 2024 last week, ElevenLabs teamed up with NVIDIA to present multilingual AI language technology. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang presented parts of his keynote updates in English and Mandarin. Not only since the 10 for 1 stock split has NVIDIA had a firm place in the top 5 most valuable companies! Here's the supercut of the keynote.

• Stable Audio Open allows the creation of samples and sound effects from text, while Udios 'Audio Uploads' allows the extension and remixing of user clips. And Suno's "Sound-to-Song" function even generates entire songs from uploaded audio data.

• Remember that creepy Microsoft Recall feature that keeps taking screenshots of your computer? The company has changed its tune in response to concerns about this "Big Brother" feature, and the feature now has to be activated by each user.

• (Former) Employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind have published an open letter at righttowarn.ai, in which they warn against a culture of recklessness and secrecy. OpenAI and Anthropic counter with safety studies. But the fact remains that the safety mechanisms of all models can be circumvented very easily. There is still a lot to do ...

• Looking for something to read? Former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner has published an essay entitled SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead, which we have chosen as our must-read - PDF here.

👐 AI will [[solve it OR kill us]] all!

The better the AI gets, the more severe the possible consequences. Jason from the All In Podcast posted a fitting meme 🫣.

🤖 Advertising in chatbots: annoying or brilliant opportunity?

Chatbots are the epitome of the current AI revolution. We all use them, probably on a daily basis. Some even build their own bots, and a few even make a small fortune with them.

One of the most popular business models for earning a little money with chatbots is to offer them on a monthly subscription basis.

In other words: you build a fun horoscope chatbot, for example, and charge a few bucks a month to use it. This is possible, for example, with a tool like MindStudio.

Since OpenAI still does not share in the revenue of chatbots created and trained by users on its own platform, there are some other ways to monetize chatbots directly in ChatGPT:

Advertising!

As you can see in the screenshot below from the Midjourney Prompt GPT, the bot delivers the promised prompts - but also two types of advertising.

1) Affiliate links

The first link after the prompts is a hint that you should upscale the images generated on Midjourney with Gigapixel AI.

If someone clicks on the link and uses Gigapixel AI, the GPT maker receives a commission.

2) Classic advertising via sponsored text

At the very bottom you can also find an area marked Sponsored.

It refers to a journaling app that you can use to advance your career. Not exactly in line with the topic of the GPT.

Here, too, the GPT maker receives a kickback - either a fixed amount, or based on clicks when someone views the journaling app.

Annoying or a great sales opportunity?

The fact is: chatbots are often used - but only as long as they are free. It is a huge challenge to get people to (repeatedly) pay you for a chatbot you have created.

We find the advertising option very exciting because it doesn't hurt anyone and can be a solid source of income if you build a good chatbot.

How to add advertising to your chatbot

Basically, it's not that difficult to add advertising to your own chatbot. We took a closer look at the instructions for the example bot.

You can add some revenue streams to your chatbot, for example like this:

Affiliate products:

Here you simply look for suitable offers (either via ChatGPT/Google, or on marketplaces such as OfferVault or Clickbank), and see if they offer an affiliate program.

Register with the affiliate partner program and you’ll receive your own personal links, which you put into your bot's instructions.

It is important that you define precise instructions as to when the bot should issue references to these products, to ensure it does not become too much.

Sponsored Links:

It's even easier with sponsored links! For example, there are providers such as Adzedek, the service from the example above. You can easily connect Adzedek to your chatbot via API and then display ads.

We are certain: advertising in chatbots is here to stay!

👂 Feature Update: ChatGPT always listening on your phone

Finally, a quick feature update for all those who use ChatGPT on their phone.

Recently, it has become possible for ChatGPT to always be listening, and you can talk to it even if you do NOT have the app open. Even when your cell phone is on standby!

You can easily activate this in the settings:

A cool feature, especially if you need information in other apps where ChatGPT is supposed to help you.

However, we recommend deactivating it again when you no longer use it. After all, giving an external app full permission to always listen in is somehow strange.

(Hi Alexa, in the living room 😉!)

Your AInauts, Fabian & Reto

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