How To Make Legos of Anything with AI

Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 🤯 TikTok stealing OpenAI code?

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Prompt engineering from ChatGPT

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🧱 How To Make Legos of Anything with AI

• 🥯 Putting the bagel in Bagel Bots

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Even though there is a ton of smoke around TikTok being a horrible thing, I still lay in bed and watch videos for 20+ minutes each night.

Well, here is more news for the “TikTok is weird” file. According to The Verge, “ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor.”

More drama is on the way for OpenAI, but that’s par for the course for a company that is changing the world.

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Many people are making a lot of money selling prompts online. There are also people like me giving you a ton of free ChatGPT prompts and tips every week.

Well, now OpenAI is giving you really thoughtful tips for LLM prompting. The OpenAI Prompt Engineering guide is valuable for anyone wanting to get the most out of their interactions with large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4.

The notable prompt strategies you’ll learn:

• Write clear instructions: Be specific about what you want the model to do and avoid ambiguity.

• Provide context: Include relevant background information and examples to guide the model.

• Use different tactics:

  • Examples: Give the model examples of desired outputs.

  • Persona adoption: Ask the model to write from a specific perspective.

  • Delimiters: Clearly separate different parts of the prompt.

  • Task specification: Outline specific steps for the model to follow.

  • Output length: Specify the desired length of the generated text.

🔗 You can get your full prompting education here.

🔗 Grimes Enters the AI Race With a Baby Grok Doll

My take: Elon’s baby mama is releasing an AI doll with the same name as Elon’s AI, but the two are not connected. Wild stuff.

🔗 AI companion robot helps some seniors fight loneliness, but others hate it

My take: Say what you will, but my guess is that many lonely people will adopt AI and robots for a number of things in the future.

🔗 There’s a gap between AI talk and businesses actually using it

My take: Everyone talks about using AI, but very few companies use it. Raising my hand as someone who uses it daily in my business.

🔗 Amazon CEO says generative AI will ‘change every customer experience’

My take: Let’s be honest—talking to customers at scale is hard. It’s rough for everyone in any business. More AI that makes people feel better faster is the key to scaling future businesses.

🔗 Instagram Introduces AI-Powered Background Tool for Stories

My take: Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat are all in a race to somewhere with as many AI tools as possible. I actually like it because it gets people used to using new technology.

Every one of these apps can help you with your company, career, side hustle, or personal project. I recommend diving deep into them all.

• 🔗 Simple Phones - Forward your missed calls, or get a new number, and we'll answer it using AI

• 🔗 MeetGeek - Automagically video record, transcribe, summarize, and share granular insights from every meeting to any tool

• 🔗 BlockSurvey - Experience AI-driven, privacy-first data collection platform

• 🔗 Boomy - Unleash your creativity and make music with Boomy AI

• 🔗 NotebookLM from Google - NotebookLM gives you a personalized AI, grounded in the information you trust

Check these fantastic platforms out, and let me know what you think. Reply to this email or tweet me directly.

🧱 How To Make Legos of Anything with AI

Last week, I told you how to create anything out of Legos with a new ChatGPT Custom GPT. I decided to make my three pets out of Legos, which turned out amazing!

Here are Nala (Cat), Sophie (Black), and Baxter (Brown).

First, you’ll log into ChatGPT and use the Brick Box Generator GPT, which you can access here.

These are the prompts (super simple):

Black Boston Terrier named Sophie

Brown Boston Terrier named Baxter

Orange Cat named Nala

Here are the incredible images I got:

One thing to note: you cannot ask this GPT to recreate people or characters. BUT you can describe a person or character in detail and get pretty damn close. Try animals, food, places, and brands.

🥯 Putting the bagel in Bagel Bots.

These newsletters take a little longer to put together than you may think. I have to source a ton of information, read it all, figure out what is meaningful, organize it in Apple Notes, and assemble each edition twice a week.

On Sunday, I spent a few hours getting ready for this week, and yes, I had a delightful everything bagel with lox, capers, tomato, onion, and chive cream cheese while doing it.

Have a great week!