CustomGPT Review
It only takes a few sessions with ChatGPT to realize that the more it knows about you and what you are trying to achieve, the better its responses are. However, the process of manually inputting text into ChatGPT and other LLMs can be cumbersome and inefficient. Similarly, building your own vector database + ChatGPT integration can be time-consuming and may yield ineffective results. CustomGPT, and similar out-of-the-box software tools aim to provide a more refined and efficient solution to this problem by allowing us to upload a custom knowledge base that includes relevant information for whatever task we are hoping to accomplish. These chatbots are the first iteration of the AI assistants that will play an increasingly important role in our personal and professional lives. Recently, I looked at 28 different software solutions in this area and found that CustomGPT performed the best. While all of these tools still seem a bit buggy, I was able to get the farthest the fastest with CustomGPT.ai.
all right I'm excited to be back with you today for a software review of custom GPT recently I looked at about 28 custom uh gpt4 chat Bots which are chat Bots you can train on your own custom data this is a use case that I think is going to get more and more important as this world of AI evolves custom gbt seemed to be the best of the ones that I tested out I was able to go the fastest the farthest and I want to dive into that with you today you know the real use case here is it only takes a few sessions with chat EBT to realize that the more it knows about you and what you're trying to achieve the better the results are but there's only so much text you can copy and paste into the context window and if you've ever fooled around with trying to create your own Vector database you know that that can lead to a lot of issues and challenges as well so these custom chat Bots like custom GPT here are sort of bridging that Gap and doing some of that work for you where they've created the vector database and you can just upload your information and ideally use gpt4 chat gbt to interact with a larger amount of your data than you currently can straight through the window so I think the these are the very first versions of the uh powerful AI assistance that will be coming our way very soon and I think it makes sense to get uh get familiar with the current state of the technology now uh the plans here for custom GPT moving into uh the software review section of the article here the basic plan 49 a month gives you enough to really test it kick the tires and see what use cases uh what value it can bring there is no free uh tier I will have a link in the description of this article for a free month that you can try it out there and obviously it scales up once you uh you know if you have more data more projects that you want to run but that 49 a month plan is is enough to get get familiar with it and start to figure out what it can do um you know I really like this software it's a good mix of the basics you know not too much uh customization but then if you really wanted to customize it there are options for deeper customization and you'll see that across all the different zones that we're going to look at here so when you're uploading the data you can upload pretty much whatever you want you can upload a site map so figuring out this where is the site map on your website and copy and pasting that in you can also upload PDF documents Word documents and even YouTube article with a tweak that is available in a Jason West article that I'll link to pretty cool article that dives into custom GPT more and shows you how to upload YouTube article into your custom knowledge base here so really it doesn't seem like there's too many limitations to what you can upload and it's very easy and clear on how you do that then the actual chat bot settings I thought these were pretty cool very good mix again of easy to use while allowing for a lot of customization there are some basic branding options uh that that are nice if you just want to you know create something simple there and the ability to customize the default prompt and example questions as you can see here is really really powerful because these tools they don't work uh quite like you would always expect they're not as robust lost yet as chat GPT as you might imagine so giving your users some guidance on that initial prompt and on example questions can really help them get more out of your custom chat bots so I thought that was a really cool ad that I did not see in other software Uh custom chatbot software that I tested also the conversational settings was really cool the one thing that set this uh custom chat bought apart from some of the others is that it has gpt4 as a default which is probably why you need to pay for it uh and there's no free version uh the other thing that was cool here is you could flip between do you want it to only look at your content or do you want it to look at your content plus the knowledge base of chat GPT right here in the conversation settings that's huge I did not see that feature in other in other softwares that I tested and there are a lot of different reasons why you might want one or the other and we'll get into some of those in a second but I thought that was pretty powerful there's also some really cool citation options where you can turn on or off citations this can be helpful as you're testing it can also be really helpful if uh you know your your user is looking to drill down more and figure out where did this answer come from so I thought that was really cool very easy very simple there's not a ton one of of customizations here but it seemed like the ones that you wanted are there and I think where you're going to need the most customizations is how you share out your custom chat bot so the chair the share link the embed link the live chat those are all pretty standard those are across all uh of the chat Bots that I tested so the share link is just a quick and easy way to share it out embed would be embedding it on your website the live chat would be that little bubble live chat that pops up on on many sites for customer support I'm sure you've seen that and then the API looked pretty cool and I have another screenshot of what that API looks like and then there was a brand new uh plugins uh sharing option which will allow you to build your own chat GPT plugin uh just based on your knowledge base so that was that was very new as I was testing this throughout the week here's the little look at the API I'm not a coder but it looks like it's it's pretty robust so if you want to really get under the hood and use this in in your projects in various ways you've got a lot of options here I feel like everything you can do in the um you know web portal there you can pretty much do with the API and there's good documentation there so that was exciting if you wanted to dive deeper into how to customize this into a different use case and again that chat GPT plug-in option is pretty interesting to be able to just have this automatically show up in the chat gbt plugins right along all the others you know have your knowledge base showing up there could be pretty powerful um so when I was testing it you know I was able to get some interesting stuff out of it I have a client that is looking to use AI to create uh training modules from a book that he just released I was able to upload the book and get a little good work done on building these training modules this is something you couldn't do with just chat gbt because the context window is not big enough to put that whole book in there and custom GPT worked well for that use case which was awesome I also uploaded all the PDFs that I have in my patreon and was able to ask it some questions and get some intelligent responses back from my knowledge base there which I thought was pretty cool and again you can't do a lot of the other tools out there kind of fall down when you start to test them out so the fact that these uh that custom GPT is is solving some some problems is is pretty cool some challenges I had there was some down time there was a bunch of times I would get an error message that it was saying that open AI was potentially down and I would look and open AI was not down so I think there's something they're trying to work out maybe by the time you're watching it that has been worked out and just some of the stuff I thought would be easy here the Second Challenge formatting of social media updates I thought it would be pretty easy to just upload some information say hey create some quick social media updates from this data from these different PDFs Etc and it didn't really work very well for that right out of the box but then when I flipped on that my content plus chat GPT and began testing it that's when I found the that that was a pretty useful feature and it started to get some better and better results where you're using all of the chat GPT knowledge base in conjunction with uh your own knowledge base that you've uploaded there so those were a couple of the challenges I ran into but again with some testing I was able to work through some of them and I'm sure these tools are just going to start to get better and better in summary I think these custom chat Bots are going to be turning this is like the initial step to building these really powerful AI assistants that are going to be able to help you with your day-to-day these are going to be the products that you can share your own knowledge base with the world so I think it makes sense to kind of dive in and start playing with these as it's still early days here and start understanding what their current limit stations are because I think it'll they'll start to pick up steam fairly quickly and again I tested a bunch of them I looked at 28 to some degree Dove deep into five custom GPT seem to be the current leader I've got a link in the description below and there's also a code there to get a month of free trial it is an affiliate link so I do get a little bit of Revenue off that to keep the channel going but I don't do a whole lot of affiliate Links at all this is definitely a tool that I'm checking out and using uh and considering for the long term I guess so I appreciate you watching I hope you got some value out of this and I wish you luck if you do decide to try out custom GPT I have a pdf version of all the information here in my patreon I have this for all of my article there's tons and tons of prompts there's also some Google collabs in there for some quick and dirty software automation and lessons on how you can use AI to build your own software there's also some one-on-one coaching and Consulting options if you uh have any problems that you want to chat with me about I'd be happy to talk to you thanks for watching please feel free to like subscribe comment it really helps as I'm trying to get this channel off the ground and I will see you on the next article.
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