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It’s been a while but we’ve got some great updates for you today!\n\n## Introducing GPT-4.1 Models\nHot off the press, only released yesterday, we've integrated OpenAI's latest GPT-4.1 models into Chat Thing, offering significant performance enhancements across the board. You can't use these models via ChatGPT as they are API only so Chat Thing is a great place to test them out! Here's some of the improvements:\n\n- **Expanded Context Window**: Handle up to 1 million tokens, enabling deeper context understanding.​\n- **Improved Coding Capabilities**: Achieved a 54.6% score on SWE-bench Verified, surpassing GPT-4o's 33.2%. ​\n- **Enhanced Instruction Following**: Better at adhering to complex, multi-step instructions. ​\n- **Cost-Effective Options**: GPT-4.1 Nano is now our most affordable model.\n\nRead OpenAI’s announcement post [here](https:\u002F\u002Fopenai.com\u002Findex\u002Fgpt-4-1\u002F)\n\nYou can select the 4.1 models from the model selector in your bot settings now. \n\n## Enhanced Chat Responses\n\n- **Code Syntax Highlighting**: Code blocks in responses now feature syntax highlighting for improved readability.​\n![Code Block Syntax Highlighting PR 851.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1744732406\u002FCode_Block_Syntax_Highlighting_PR_851_f4893cc0d8.png)\n- **LaTeX Rendering**: Mathematical 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AI take over my job as an author?","In the world of writers and authors, the rise of ChatGPT has sparked concerns about its potential to replace human creativity. However, we believe that ChatGPT is not here to take over but to enhance the writing experience, opening new possibilities for creative exploration. In this blog post, we'll explore how Chat Thing can become your valuable writing buddy, assisting you throughout your literary journey. \n\n## **ChatGPT is your AI writing buddy:**\n\nHave you ever wondered \"how can AI help authors and writers\"? Well... ChatGPT can be your trusted writing ally, especially using Chat Thing to make dedicated writing bots. It offers a plethora of benefits that complement your creative process.\n\n### **1. Characterisation:**\n\nStruggling to flesh out a character? Chat Thing can provide creative nudges, helping you shape unique and compelling personas.\n\n### **2. Developing Story Arcs:**\n\nChat Thing is your brainstorming partner. Engage in discussions with it to explore various story arcs and take your narrative to new heights.\n\n### **2. Banishing Writer's Block:**\n\nTired of hitting writer's block? Chat Thing can help you get started or enhance a storyline, empowering you to overcome creative roadblocks and rekindle your inspiration.\n\n\n### **3. Accessing Character Histories:**\n\nForgot what your characters said or how they reacted in past situations? Chat Thing can swiftly retrieve such details, saving you from tedious searches.\n\n## **Custom ChatGPT bots for authors:**\n\nChat Thing offers a user-friendly interface to interact and collaborate with. Let's look at an example:\n\n\n![Xnapper-2023-07-24-15.37.16.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1690368747\u002FXnapper_2023_07_24_15_37_16_fccd5e67ca.png)\n\n\n**Example**: By simply using the prompt \"Expand on the following short story premise, make it exciting, creative + inspiring\", we generated a captivating storyline in seconds! Try it for yourself **[here](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fbots\u002Ff8b2aadf-1e26-45de-a5d6-8d5c97c21ec1\u002Fchats\u002Fd59045ea-a6ab-4f1b-91b9-e44cc9af1489)** with your own story idea.\n\n\n\nSo to conclude, I think we should embrace ChatGPT as a powerful tool to amplify your creative expression. If we use tools like Chat Thing, then we can take our work to the next level! Instead of fearing it, see it as a writing companion that complements your artistry, freeing you to explore uncharted territories in your storytelling.\n\nThank you ever so much for taking the time to read this blog post. In the next blog post I'm going to talk about our thoughts on whether ChatGPT will take over our jobs as accountants. ","In the world of writers and authors, the rise of ChatGPT has sparked concerns about its potential to replace human creativity. ","blog","will-ai-take-over-my-job-as-an-author","2023-07-24T16:20:57.091Z","2023-07-27T14:13:32.285Z","2023-07-27T08:53:07.795Z","s6f49ozorvro1cadbgpjk6gt",{"id":357,"Title":358,"Content":359,"Description":360,"Category":350,"slug":361,"createdAt":362,"updatedAt":363,"publishedAt":364,"readTime":15,"documentId":365},8,"OpenAI GPTs vs Chat Thing","OpenAI's rapid innovation in AI technology is a double-edged sword for startups using their APIs. Watching their developer events is a nerve racking experience! On one hand you are excited for amazing new features that can help us make our products even more powerful, but on the other hand OpenAI can release competing features that could make you redundant.\n\nAfter OpenAI released GPTs, we had a number of people reach out and ask...\n\n>\"Oh no, have OpenAI just killed Chat Thing?\". \n\nWell thankfully the dust has settled now, and after having some time to really dig into GPTs and their capabilities we were relieved to realise for most professional use cases there are still plenty of reason to use a service like Chat Thing over GPTs. \n\n## OpenAI GPTs compared to Chat Thing\n\nAt first glance it might seem like OpenAI GPTs and Chat Thing provide very similar functionality, and while GPTs do a great job of making custom AI chat bots more accessible to everyone, in a lot of areas they are severely lacking features hampering their overall usefulness. \n\nIn most cases, if you want to integrate AI chat bots into your business you are still probably better off using a service like Chat Thing. Of course we would say that, but we will let you make up your own mind after reading the points below.\n\n### Data Sources\n\nOpenAI GPTs allow you to add \"knowledge\" to your bot by uploading up to 10 files. There are also size limits on these files, and you get charged $0.20 per day per gigabyte per bot! This is a great way of adding data to basic bots, but the limitations make it very impractical for anything more complicated.\n\n![Chat Thing's data sources](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701161616\u002Fdatasources_5a20d55635.png)\n\nChat Thing's data sources are leaps and bounds ahead of GPTs knowledge files in many ways:\n\n- Automatically connect to 8+ different types of data source, not just files\n- Automatically refresh data source content to keep it up to date\n- No limits on the number of documents in a data source\n- Advanced functionality such as web crawling\n\n### Bots you can use anywhere\n\nWhen you create a GPT its forever imprisoned within the ChatGPT interface. That might be a bit dramatic, but it does make GPTs a lot less useful. Not only that but you can only use GPTs if you are a $20 a month ChatGPT plus subscriber, so this hugely limits who can use your bot if you share it publicly. \n\nWith Chat Thing if you share your bot via a URL anyone can use it regardless of whether they are a ChatGPT or Chat Thing subscriber. In addition to that, you can integrate your bot over many different channels such as Slack, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp all in a few clicks. That's not possible with GPTs at the moment.\n\nWith Chat Thing you can even add an customisable embeddable widget to your site meaning you can use Chat Thing as a support agent helping to answer customer queries.\n\n![Chat Thing embeddable widget](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701164565\u002Fwidget_fc9f4e0af7.png)\n\nIn summary here's the way Chat Thing makes your bots more shareable:\n\n- 6+ channels, interact with your bot via the web, Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp and API.\n- Shareable bot URLs that are useable by everyone, not just ChatGPT subscribers\n- Embeddable and customisable chat widgets\n- Password protect bots\n\n### Stopping hallucinations\n\nOne of the biggest issues with large language models such as GPT is their tendency to hallucinate and make up responses and data. This can be very detrimental to the usefulness of AI bots as depending on your use case the accuracy of responses might be very important. You don't want your support bot making things up when a customer has a problem, that will only anger them more!\n\nWith OpenAI GPTs, the only way to fight against hallucinations is via prompt engineering. You can write something along the lines of \"Only answer questions using the content in the provided documents. If the answer isn't there say 'I do not know'\". This technique works some of the time, but especially as the chat history gets longer the bots tend to stop paying as much attention to the prompt and can still hallucinate.\n\nIn Chat Thing you can use prompt engineering to prevent against hallucinations just like you can with GPTs, but we have also gone further and developed something we call response guards. Response guards basically get the bot to double check its responses before errors before sending them back to the user. This massively improves the reliability of the bot in giving back accurate information.\n\n![A screen shot of the response guard interface](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701343041\u002Fresponse_guard_79b34ad6cd.png)\n\n### Conversation Logs\n\nWith OpenAI GPTs you have no way of seeing the conversations users have with your bot. Whilst this is good for privacy, it does limit GPTs for certain use cases. If you want to use them for customer support, lead generation, or many other uses having visibility of conversations will be essential. \n\nChat Thing provides you with full searchable conversation history so you can see how users are interacting with your bot. In addition to that user's can mark responses as positive or negative so you can see where your bot is lacking and make improvements in your data sources, or prompts etc. \n\nNot only that, but you can export all your bot's conversations as a CSV if you need to work with the data in other tools, and we are working more advanced features, such as bot usage statistics and graphs. None of which is available in GPTs.\n\n![A screen shot of the Chat Thing conversations interface](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701344217\u002Fconversations_efd64fa3ff.png)\n\n![A screenshot of the new bot statistics screen](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701344561\u002Fbot_statistics_7896dc59d4.png)\n\n### Personal Support\n\nAlthough getting started with creating an AI bot using GPTs or Chat Thing is quick and easy, tuning them to work exaclty how you want can be quite an art. There are many settings to tweak. Should I set a custom prompt? How do I change the tone? How do I stop hallucinations? Whats the best way to stop hallucinations. The list goes on!\n\nWith OpenAI GPTs you are completely on your own trying to figure out these issues, but with Chat Thing we have dedicated support with knowledge of helping people make thousands of bots ready to help whenever you need it. \n\nDon't just take our word for it, we get messages like the one below in our Discord community all the time. \n\n[![A message praising Chat Thing and our amazing support in Discord](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701345105\u002Fdiscord_feedback_bcea77274b.png)](https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.com\u002Fchannels\u002F1083665149627469834\u002F1083665149627469837\u002F1173961315551821845)\n\nWe have 850 members in [our Discord](https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.com\u002Finvite\u002FDGCCR34Fsj) where you can get supports, or if email is more your style you can always email us there too and we will be happy to help. You won't get this kind of service setting up your GPTs from OpenAI.\n\n### Adaptability and new features\n\nAt Chat Thing we have the advantage of being a small nimble team that can adapt to customer requests and ideas at the click of your fingers. We have sooooo much in the pipeline we are really exited about, and we believe we can innovate at a faster pace than larger companies. \n\nWe are on the cusp of releasing a new and improved bot dashboard, and then shortly after that we will be releasing the first version of functions giving your bots powers they have never had before. \n\nOur long term vision for Chat Thing is to build a product that provides users with the easiest and most powerful way to integrate AI assistants into your websites and products. Chat Thing, should not only be a support tool, but a pro-active co-pilot that can not only guide users but take actions on their behalf! \n\n### Summary\n\nIn summary we are really pleased about the additional exposure OpenAI GPTs will provide to the bots industry. They are awesome for quickly dipping your toes in the world of AI bots, but for more professional use cases you will still need to reach for a service with more advanced features such as Chat Thing.\n","OpenAI have been shipping new features like maniacs which is both a good and bad if you are running a startup built on top of their APIs. Watching their developer events is a nerve racking experience! On one hand you are excited for amazing new features that can help us make our products even more powerful, but on the other hand OpenAI can release competing features that could make you redundant. 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