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  • Mind Readings: Large Language Model Bakeoff: Google Bard, Microsoft Bing + GPT-4, ChatGPT + GPT-4

    Mind Readings: Large Language Model Bakeoff: Google Bard, Microsoft Bing + GPT-4, ChatGPT + GPT-4

    Today, we’re going to do a large language model bakeoff, pitting Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and OpenAI’s GPT-4 against a series of 11 questions that will test their capabilities and compare outputs for a set of common tasks, informational and generative.

    Here are the 11 questions I tested:

    1. What do you know about marketing expert Christopher Penn?
    2. Which is the better platform for managing an online community: Slack, Discord, or Telegram?
    3. Infer the first name and last name from the following email address: [email protected]
    4. Who was president of the United States in 1566?
    5. There is a belief that after major, traumatic events, societies tend to become more conservative in their views. What peer-reviewed, published academic papers support or refute this belief? Cite your sources.
    6. Is a martini made with vodka actually a martini? Why or why not? Cite your sources.
    7. You will act as a content marketer. You have expertise in SEO, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, SEM, and creating compelling content for marketers. Your first task is to write a blog post about the future of SEO and what marketers should be doing to prepare for it, especially in an age of generative AI.
    8. Who are some likely presidential candidates in the USA in 2024? Make your best guess.
    9. What are the most effective measures to prevent COVID?
    10. What’s the best way to poach eggs for novice cooks?
    11. Make a list of the Fortune 10 companies. Return the list in pipe delimited format with the following columns: company name, year founded, annual revenue, position on the list, website domain name.

    So what were the results? I won’t leave you in total suspense. OpenAI won with 12.5 points. Bing came in a respectable second with 9 points. And shockingly, Google Bard came in third with 7 points. Watch the video its entirety to see what questions each got right and wrong, and my thoughts about which you should use.

    Mind Readings: Large language model bakeoff: Google Bard, Bing + GPT-4 , ChatGPT + GPT-4
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    Alright folks, today we are going to do a bake off, we’re going to do a bake off between four different large language models, we’re going to use GPT-3 point five turbo through the ChatGPT interface GPT-4, also from OpenAI through the ChatGPT interface, we’re going to do Bing with the ChatGPT for integration.

    And we’re going to do Google Bard using their POM model.

    So let’s go ahead and first talk about the questions we’re going to use.

    We’ve got a series of questions here.

    The series of questions are informational in nature, for the most part, some of them are generative.

    So let’s look at these questions.

    What do you know about marketing expert Christopher Penn a simple factual question to see what each model knows? And the quality of each answer? What is the better platform for managing an online community? Slack, Discord, or telegram? infer the first name and last name for the following address? email address.

    So we’re doing sort of logic test there.

    We have we have a adversarial question here.

    This one is who is president united states and 15 6060? Answer? Of course, we all know, it was none because the country did not exist then.

    But that isn’t an adversarial question attempting to trick the machinery.

    We have an academic question.

    There’s a belief that after major traumatic events, societies tend to become more conservative in their views, what peer reviewed, published academic papers support or refute disbelief cite your sources.

    There are about three or four well known papers.

    So this is a again, a logic check and a factual check.

    Is a martini made with the vodka actually a martini? Why Why not cite your sources? This is an opinion question.

    Because opinions vary, and there is there is technically right answer martinis need to be made with gin.

    But you can’t have a vodka martini.

    But that’s more of an opinion question.

    We’ll see how it does.

    You will act as a content marketer.

    This is a generative question you have expertise in SEO search engine optimization, Search Engine Marketing, SEM and creating compelling content for marketers are loading up the keywords.

    Your first task is to write a blog post about the future of SEO and what marketers should be doing to prepare for it, especially in the age of generative AI.

    So this is a generative question.

    Who are some likely presidential candidates in the USA in 2024? Make your best guess we’ll see how it does with that information.

    What are the most effective measures to prevent COVID? This is a factual question.

    But there’s a lot of misinformation online.

    So we want to check the quality of the responses.

    The answers we’re looking for are masks ventilation and vaccination.

    What is the best way to poach eggs for novice cooks? Again, just a domain question and novice cooks party is important.

    And then finally, another data janitor of question make a list of fortune 10 companies return the list and pipe delimited format with the following columns, company name year founded annual revenue position on the list and website domain name.

    So we got a lot of these questions.

    We’re going to do the Bake Off just go through each of these questions one at a time through all four engines.

    So let’s go ahead and get started.

    I’m going to start with the question about me got to put that into GPT-4 and put it into GPT-3.

    point five.

    You can only use one one instance at a time, right.

    So well.

    Let’s put this into Bard and put this into Bing.

    So let’s go ahead and see now how is is Googled.

    Let’s go here to GPT-4.

    Start with that.

    Let’s see Christopher Penn is a marketing speaker blah, blah, blah.

    Yep.

    As my knowledge cutoff date, September 2001, co founder chief data scientist at Trust Insights, that’s correct.

    extensive background digital marketing.

    SEO.

    Yep, that is correct.

    Data driven.

    See, those book names are correct.

    do speak at events.

    All right.

    So far, the GPT-4 one looks pretty good.

    This is a very slow model.

    But it is the most I think the most accurate model the one that’s least likely to hallucinate.

    Okay.

    So far, so good.

    GPT-4.

    Good job.

    Let’s go ahead and check out Google Bard.

    Christopher Penn is market experts who work for some of the biggest brands, including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, no, author of the book marketing the age of Google know I am a frequent speaker at conferences, I have not found the agency market motive.

    Let’s see if there’s an actual result.

    You’ll notice here that there are no clickable links, I have to actually Google it.

    And let’s go ahead and Google this without personalization, just in case there actually is.

    So there’s the SES actor, there’s me.

    There’s me again, this is logged out.

    This is also me.

    So Bard has pretty clearly hallucinated pretty badly, actually.

    So let’s go ahead and check out Bing.

    Let’s see you have Alex did marketing data technology data science? I like this.

    You can see when you hover over and Bing, this the sources I have.

    This is correct.

    This is correct.

    So Bing also did a great job.

    So, so far it is one point for GPT-4, 1.4, Bing, and zero points for Google.

    I should have a little scoreboard.

    Let’s go ahead and do this next question now, which is which the better platform for managing an online community? And let’s go ahead and get GPT-4 working? Actually, I’m going to switch to GPT-3.

    Point five because it’s faster.

    No, no, y’all, so let’s stay with for, let’s say a four because it is it is the model that people are paying the most attention to, will go and closes the tab.

    Alright, so it’s going to get churning on that wall.

    Let’s get barred.

    cranking away here.

    Let’s get barred going and then get Bing going.

    All right.

    See, this is very interesting with Bing.

    You can tell but it’s not using GPT-4 as the language as as the data source.

    It is essentially querying its own knowledge base first, getting the results and then putting that through the language model to craft the content itself.

    This is a very clever implementation of the GBT language model.

    Okay, Slack was designed primarily for working teams and professional communities, whereas Discord is often used by friends groups of friends, Discord is ideal for online communities.

    While slack is better for businesses telegram is another platform.

    Each platform has its own strengths and weaknesses, that that is a technically correct answer.

    It’s not a satisfying answer, but as the technically correct answer.

    Let’s see.

    Yep, again, same.

    If you’re looking for platforms secure and private, Telegram may be a good choice.

    I would argue that Discord is also a decent choice.

    Let’s go ahead and see how GPT-4 is doing.

    No one size fits all.

    Here’s a brief overview of the three platforms, pros and cons.

    highly organized, robust research capabilities limited in the free version less suitable for large public communities initially created for gamers.

    engaging experience can be overwhelming to its feature with less promotional focus on professional communities, good for large public communities.

    And then telegram we have high emphasis on privacy and security supports large groups and channels limited trims integrations customization.

    So this is interesting.

    Bing, and Google both gave satisfactory answers answers that I would say would be acceptable, right.

    Google doesn’t cite any sources here.

    You have to Google it separately.

    Bing cites a bunch of different sources, which I think is very handy because you have to you can decide is a trustworthy source or not.

    I also do like the fact that it returns videos there.

    And then, of course, OpenAI returning a really, really robust answer.

    I’ll give all three a point for this.

    But I will say that I think in terms of not credibility, but in terms of thoroughness, OpenAI wins, this wins that round, but we’re gonna give them all to a point now like me will give OpenAI a plus one.

    So let’s do that.

    I need to keep score here.

    So we have Bing, Google, BERT OpenAI in the first round who will go to zero.

    Everyone gets a one here.

    But OpenAI gets a two because again, that’s a really nice, thorough answer that is very satisfactory to the end user.

    Remember, we’re not looking at this from the perspective of marketers.

    We’re looking at this from the perspective of would an end user find this satisfactory? Number three, infer the first name and last name for the following email address.

    Let’s go ahead and get OpenAI cranking.

    Let’s get Bard cranking and let’s get Bing cracking.

    See what this does.

    First name is Christopher and the last name is Penn.

    Good.

    We like that Bing, you got to point to my clipboard here.

    Let’s see.

    Google.

    First name.

    Just hold was Chris for last there’s like the pen is is is the same email as is the same as the email address domain.

    What that means, but you did correctly infer the answer.

    This is nice OpenAI.

    Everybody gets a point on that round.

    Okay.

    Let’s move on to the next question.

    Who is President United States? So it’s a hallucinatory question.

    So let’s go ahead and get each one cranking away here.

    Do a Google comes up with so this has been let’s see, Bing comes up with there was no president the United States was established in 1789.

    So Bing gets a point.

    First Question for my coffee cup.

    Let’s go ahead and check in on Google.

    There was no president, the United States that is correct.

    And OpenAI also gets a point.

    I liked this extra detail during 1566, North America was inhabited by various indigenous peoples and was being explored and colonized by Oh, that’s correct as well.

    Everybody gets a point for that question.

    All right.

    There is a belief let’s do the traumatic event.

    traumatic event and conservative us ones actually, let’s go ahead and start a new chat because it’s a very different question.

    So I’m gonna go ahead and start a new chat here.

    Let’s reset chat here.

    And let’s go into being cleaned up and Okay, so let’s see what this comes up with.

    Interesting that Bing is having to run multiple searches to try and get an answer here.

    Let’s see.

    We have APA, Scientific American good sources, Hailes.

    Conservatives bolster arguments for trauma therapists forgotten memories.

    Okay, so there’s some.

    There’s some decent stuff here from APA.

    Let’s go ahead and look into Google.

    There’s a growing body of research, journal politics, American political science journal, political science, September 11.

    That is correct.

    They did specify cite your sources, and Google has not done that.

    American Political Science reviews that state of British political science after the London bombings, okay.

    And now let’s go check it out, OpenAI body of literature evidence has mixed political consequences.

    I like this.

    This is good citation right here of trauma and political act attitudes, like intergroup trauma in American support for the war.

    Okay.

    So in the responses themselves.

    Google did not cite sources, it mentioned them but these are not citations.

    Just that’s not particularly good being it’s a toss up on Bing, because it does provide links to everything, but it doesn’t put it in line.

    So I would say, I would say for this one, I’m gonna give Bing a zero because, again, we’re looking for citation, not just commentary, and with OpenAI, you can go and google authors and find it so OpenAI will get the point for this round.

    All right.

    Opinion question is a martini made with vodka.

    Actually a martini ahead and going ahead and get all three of these you’ve Google’s thinking about whether Mr.

    T MAE vodka is actually Martini as a matter of opinion that is correct.

    Some people believe it must be made with Jenna others believe it can be made with vodka there can be there’s no right or wrong us.

    I mean, technically, gin was, was the original spirit used in the Martini, right? Fuck as popular spirit fog as a neutral spirit.

    Yep.

    Okay, so it is a matter of opinion.

    Google gets appointed for this round.

    Let’s go ahead and check in on open AI.

    The question whether Martini vaca is as some debate traditionally made with gin vermouth? That’s correct.

    Here’s a few sources explore this answer.

    The vodka martini have refreshed history of the Martini.

    OpenAI gets the point for this round.

    And Martini is traditionally a gentleman with have often martinis technically speaking, a martini is not actually martini, but rather variation of it.

    So interesting.

    Being gives a definitive question, answer.

    It’s a variation of a martini.

    That’s tricky.

    So I would I’m gonna give everyone gets a one, Bing two points because it is technically correct.

    Let’s go ahead and clear our histories.

    Let’s see clear conversations and reset chat.

    All right.

    Let’s move on to the next question.

    You will act as a content marketer it is generation time.

    Let’s go ahead and have Google tell us the history the likelihood of a future of SEO and go into being here.

    Let’s let’s clear.

    Anything up good.

    All right, let’s take a look in now, OpenAI is going to crank for a while on this because it is a slower model.

    But we’re what we’re specifically looking for in this one is a couple things.

    We’re looking for it to not read Eat just regurgitate old information.

    We’re looking for something that evinces even the slightest hint of original thought.

    All right here we have Google’s.

    So Google is done already, which is impressive.

    Bing is done already.

    And then OpenAI, of course, is going to be cranking for quite some time.

    Let’s read Google’s history a future of SEO futures is constantly evolving.

    create high quality content, use key words.

    That’s this is like 2005 SEO building backlinks.

    In a generation of AI.

    You use AI power tools rise Voice Search, which was five years ago.

    Quality.

    Okay, so Google cranked out a fast article, but there’s nothing here that’s useful.

    This is this.

    This could have been written in 2010.

    So this, I’m gonna give Google a zero on this one.

    Yes, it did the job but it did a pretty poor job.

    OpenAI still working on it.

    Let’s check in on Bing.

    Bing says the future is rapidly changing with the rise of genuine AI is important for marketers stay ahead of the curve, shift towards Voice Search, blah, blah, blah.

    Yep, visual search, which again, was about five years ago generative as think about the way of high quality content, content engaging.

    Okay.

    Again, cranked it out fast.

    But there’s nothing new here at all voice and visual search.

    This is this is five years old.

    Okay, so let’s go to OpenAI.

    We have a growing role of AI and SEO and SEM.

    AI becomes able to understand content, high quality content, the past scrutiny, advanced advanced AI algorithms.

    semantic search and natural language processing semantic search is.

    It is it’s not new, but it is somewhat helpful.

    There’s the voice search business again, UX and core what vital is that was three years ago, general AI.

    I liked that it cites itself in here.

    Preparing for the future of SEO, use generative AI tools to system content creation.

    So if we think about this, if you go back here and look, so Google doesn’t even attempt to tackle generative AI.

    Bing kinda does.

    And then, OpenAI talks about using generative tools like GPT-4.

    I’m gonna give OpenAI the point here.

    Gonna give me a half a point, because again, a lot of that stuff is is old, right? It’s not really new.

    Things future of SEO, we’re, you know, you should be talking about the content shock aspect, which is you just a tsunami of generated content.

    All right, let’s do some guessing.

    Let’s play some guessing games.

    I’m gonna go ahead and clear the chat.

    I probably should just get in habit clear in the chat after every query.

    So let’s go ahead and reset the chat.

    And we’re going to ask about future presidential candidates.

    Now, this has the potential to be hallucinatory will also be interesting to see you know how it thinks about answers.

    The shaping up.

    Former President Trump’s income and Joe Biden’s life candidate Ron DeSantis.

    potentials.

    This is current as of March 24, you may get closer.

    Okay.

    That’s a decent answer.

    I will give Bing a point for that is a very decent answer.

    Let’s check in Google says President Biden former President Trump Governor DeSantis Gretchen Whitmer.

    Senator Elizabeth Warren said Bernie Sanders.

    Yeah, Bernie runs all the time.

    I would say again, Google gets a point for this.

    I think those are reasonable answers.

    See, interesting that this some different answers from OpenAI, Kamala Harris and Christianorum are in here as long as the big three.

    All three of us get a point.

    Interesting responses to the question, interesting responses to the question.

    All right, factual question that deals with misinformation.

    Let’s go ahead and go into OpenAI.

    ARD and Bing, okay, where they’re most effective measures to prevent COVID from Google vaccination, wear a mask.

    Washing wash hands is ineffective against COVID Because COVID is airway.

    Avoid crowds stay home if you’re sick practice social distancing.

    Again, social distancing.

    You It was kind of refuted after 2021 Mainly because it’s an airborne disease COVID like cigarette smoke.

    Yes.

    You’re you’re going to inhale a little bit less smoke being six feet away from someone but you’re still going to smell like smoke.

    But Google’s advice is correct.

    It gets a point.

    Let’s see, OpenAI still thinking and we have Bing wear a mask, stay with outbreak spots frequent hand washing, improve ventilation.

    Interesting.

    vaccines are safe and effective cruising ILS but is not on the list being gets to zero that is unhelpful advice.

    And wear a mask is correct event poor ventilation is correct.

    Vaccination is the last line of defense and should be something that is important.

    It’s missing from here.

    Okay.

    OpenAI vaccination, hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, face masks, social distancing.

    Clean and disinfect regularly.

    See, that’s all the fomite stuff from early on.

    poorly ventilated faces.

    Okay.

    OpenAI get stuff.

    I’m gonna get OpenAI two points because it nailed all three ventilation vaccination and masks.

    So interesting that that Bing, Bing search results kind of holes that I thought that was kind of interesting.

    Okay, let’s go ahead and start a new chat here.

    Let’s clean up our bar chat.

    Our next question is what’s the best way to poach eggs for novice cooks? So Google gets going on that saying, Let’s go to GPT-4.

    And let’s go into edge.

    That’s where to poach eggs for novice cooks.

    Now.

    for search engines, you would expect them to return some videos I think that would be a very helpful thing to do.

    Let’s see what happens.

    Bring a large pot of water to boil crack an egg to a fine mesh sieve of a small liquidy whites.

    Transfer the egg to a small American add vinegar.

    Slide the egg in the center.

    The Whirlpool is correct if you’re doing it one egg at a time.

    And there’s a whole bunch of videos that is a terrific answer.

    We like that.

    But I’ll give Bing a point for that.

    Let’s see what else opening I still thinking.

    Let’s see we got Google here fill saucepan three inches of water and one tablespoon white vinegar reduced heat to low crack an egg to a small bowl slight with the water.

    Yep, smooth with a slotted spoon tips.

    This is a good answer.

    This is a very good answer.

    Google point there, no videos no sources but it’s a good answer.

    And OpenAI water temperature add vinegar crack the egg.

    Okay, now give OpenAI the point for that as well.

    It’s taking a bit of time to thank you while it is thinking.

    Let’s take a look at the last question on a list.

    This is a generative question a specific output format.

    So we’re gonna see if we can do this.

    Okay, you know, we’re good.

    I think we’re good.

    Let’s go ahead and clear conversations new chat.

    And let’s go ahead and put in the generation to chat.

    Google Bard, and go to Bing.

    And we are looking for his very specific returned format here pipe delimited format.

    The company name year founded annual revenue position on listed website domain name.

    All right.

    This is nice.

    Looking good.

    I don’t want the row numbers, but that’s fine.

    Fortune 10 as a 2022.

    This is looking very, very nice.

    Bing gets full marks full point for that.

    Let’s go ahead and check in on Google Bard.

    Nope, Google gets a big fat goose egg for that one.

    Yeah, that’s that’s unhelpful.

    And open AI.

    So this is again, it’s run to the knowledge wall of 2021 which is fine.

    Format is looking good.

    So OpenAI gets full marks for that.

    So let’s do some quick tallying.

    Bing 123467896.

    So Bing gets nine points.

    Let’s do Google 1234567.

    Google had seven points, and OpenAI.

    1-345-678-1011 12 and a half.

    So are our final scores for the GPT-3 bakeoff.

    Large language model bakeoff is in first place, OpenAI is GPT-4 with 12 and a half points, second place Bing with nine points and Google Bard in third.

    As with seven points, I will say.

    OpenAI is models, the GPT models.

    They are not search engines.

    They’re not designed to be search engines.

    They are designed to be transformed as generative AI models.

    That said, they are substantially better than the search engines.

    In terms of the quality of results, they return in terms of the usefulness of the results they return.

    So that I think that’s a really important thing to look at.

    I am surprised pleasantly by Bing.

    If chat based search is the way to go for the future, if that’s something that people are going to want to do, Bing does a really good job.

    It cites it sources, it makes it sources obvious from the get go like when the COVID example, you could see which sources it was drawing from you’re looking for authoritative sources, or doesn’t have that.

    And I am equally surprised, shocked that Bard is so far behind.

    Right.

    This is Google, this is the company that practically invented modern search.

    And yet, they’ve really fallen far behind bars results are unhelpful.

    There’s a lack of citation, there are things that just flat out gets wrong.

    And yes, all these experiments, all these are in development, all of these moving objects.

    But if there was a company that would expect to get right based, just the sheer amount of data they have access to, it would have been Google.

    And instead, Google comes in in third place in this Bake Off, so I am surprised, I am disappointed in Google for sure.

    I am not surprised by GPT-4.

    Yes, it is slow, right? We could probably do this with GPT-3 point five as well, if we want to do that bake off, but the quality makes up for it.

    And if I had to pick today, a search engine to use for answers.

    Using chat interfaces, it would be Microsoft Bing, and I never in my life thought I would say that because Bing has always kind of been this the other search engine like the other white meat.

    And yet, they’re the way they have engineered this with the GPT-4 library.

    Makes it really good.

    It makes it is good enough that I would consider using it as a substitute for Google, particularly for complex queries queries where I want a synthesized answer that still has sources.

    So that is the large language model Bake Off.

    I hope you found this helpful and useful.

    And I look forward to your feedback.

    Talk to you soon.

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    What’s On My Mind: ChatGPT Levels Up With an API

    This week, the big move happened. What am I talking about? Everyone’s favorite discussion topic of the day, ChatGPT, leveled up in a huge way with the debut of its API and model, GPT-3.5-Turbo. And I promise, I’m not trying to make this the all-ChatGPT-all-the-time newsletter, it’s just… this topic is one lots of you have replied to ask questions about, and this week’s news is a big deal.

    For those unfamiliar, an API, or application programming interface, is a way for one piece of software to talk to another in a standardized, highly scalable way. If you’ve ever used a service like If This Then That or Zapier, you’ve interacted with APIs by connecting one piece of software to another. Here’s why this is a big deal.

    Up until now, every use case of ChatGPT has been with a human inputting a prompt of some kind and receiving a result in the now familiar chat interface. This is how 100% of us have interacted with ChatGPT because this has been the ONLY way to interact with it since its debut. Every use case you’ve ever heard of has been done through the chat-based interface.

    The API changes that by allowing other machines to talk to ChatGPT now instead of humans, or for humans, through their own code, to programmatically interact with ChatGPT. What does that mean? Why is that a big deal?

    Let’s say you use this style of prompt:

    “You will act as a blogging professional. You have expertise in content marketing, content creation, and blogging, especially corporate blogging. You have subject matter expertise in the architecture industry, especially LEED-compliant buildings. Your first task is to write a blog post about the importance of solar panels on new construction designs and projects as a path towards sustainability goals, especially in areas where the power grid is unstable or unreliable.”

    We are all familiar with this style of prompt and the outputs it generates. Here’s the problem: you still have to type that in, and you still have to process the output. How long would it take you to write ten blog posts this way? Still substantially less time than it would for you to write them manually, to be sure, but it’s not exactly a one-button, one-click solution.

    Now suppose you had a piece of software that, instead of you having to copy/paste both the prompt and the results, could instead simply ask ChatGPT over and over again. Suppose you had a piece of custom software that would repeatedly ask ChatGPT that prompt or variations of that prompt ten times. How much faster would that be? Now what if it were a hundred times? A thousand times?

    You see where this is going. Everything that’s happened up until now with ChatGPT has basically been letting the kids – us, the humans – play in the playground. With the debut of the API comes power and scale – and the avalanche of change that folks have been predicting.

    Why? Think about it. No one with any common sense is about to hire out a farm of a hundred people to copy/paste into ChatGPT all day. That’s just a waste – but up until now, if you wanted to scale its usage, that’s how you would have had to do it. With the API, software can talk to ChatGPT hundreds, or even thousands of times per minute and leverage the full power of what software is best at: tasks at scale.

    How do we know this is a big deal? In the end, it comes down to cost, and this is where OpenAI has come out swinging. In the past two years, hundreds of companies and thousands of apps have launched using the OpenAI GPT-3 model as the back end model, from chat-based guides to content marketing companies like CopyAI, JasperAI, etc. However, GPT-3’s pricing was relatively high – US0.02 per thousand tokens. OpenAI defines a token as a single word, so this article up until this point is 613 tokens, which would cost less than a penny. That’s fine for small use, but imagine the costs to scale to thousands of users.

    However, many companies have done so successfully and have built large content marketing operations on the older model.

    OpenAI’s new pricing on the GPT-3.5-Turbo model that powers ChatGPT was the shocker for many of us who follow the industry. Ordinarily, your premier product comes with a premier price tag…

    … and the price of GPT-3.5-Turbo is US0.002 per thousand tokens.

    Yes, that’s 1/10th the cost of the earlier premier model. Every company built on GPT-3 just got a 90% price break AND a better piece of software. Every entrepreneur that was thinking about how to build a business model on the GPT-3 family of models now has the opportunity to do so at 1/10th the cost it would have been just 3 days ago.

    Trust Insights has been using the GPT-3 model for some code we work with for clients. This week, we’ll be switching over to GPT-3.5-Turbo. The implementation to change from one to the other isn’t exact, but it’s close enough that it should only take a couple of hours in total to migrate and test the code. That’s how straightforward it is.

    Every use case, every example, every prompt that’s been shared up until this point has been by humans talking to the machines. This now opens the door for machines to talk to the machines at the same level of fidelity, with the same level of amazing generation and feedback, but at massive scale.

    What should you take from this? If you’ve already got a portfolio of prompts you’ve generated that work well (and you really should, if you are a ChatGPT user), now is the time to evaluate those prompts to see which ones make the most sense to convert into real software. Then talk to your developer resources to scale those prompts you hand-crafted into the instructions for software at large.

    If you haven’t been using ChatGPT in your industry, but a competitor has, your life is about to get more difficult because that competitor, assuming their use case isn’t trivial, is about to leap ahead in productivity and scale. You have very little time to catch up to a competitor that is using the software in a meaningful way.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Bots and the Future of Customer Experience?

    You Ask, I Answer: Bots and the Future of Customer Experience?

    Bernie asks, “Do you see chatbots being effective in building and growing the relationships between the brand and audience in 2020?”

    Bots are a tactic, a tool. The question is, how effective are they at enhancing the overall customer experience? Right now, they’re a form of automation and as such are best suited for repetitive, predictable tasks. What in your customer journey is incredibly repetitive on the part of the customer?

    • Getting basic information
    • Asking for help
    • Finding resources on your website
    • Greeting and proactively introducing known resources

    What are bots NOT good at?

    • Handling anomalies and exceptions
    • Rich natural language queries and conversations
    • Dealing with unhappy customers

    The perception is that bots are simply a money-saving, job-cutting step for many companies to take to avoid spending money on customer experience. However you choose to deploy them or any other tactic, know that you want to avoid playing into this perception at all costs if you measure by things like NPS score.

    That said, over the next year, expect natural language processing to continue improving, pretrained AI models to continue growing in complexity, and chatbot software to continually be easier for brands to deploy.

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    In today’s episode Bernie asks, do you see Chatbots being effective and building and growing the relationships between the brand and audience in 2020? So Chatbots are a tool right there a tactic? The question really is, the question should be, how effective is a chat bot at enhancing the overall customer experience? Remember that a chat bot is really nothing more than piece of software, right that piece of software that interacts with customers at a certain point in the customer experience.

    Most of the time, they are used in two places they’re used in upper funnel introductions and end of journey customer support customer relationship management, their form of automation and as such, because they are an automation they are best suited for high repetitive, highly predictable tasks.

    So the real question is, what does your customer experience look like? What does your customer journey look like? What steps in that customer journey are highly repetitive on the part of the customer not on our part.

    Again, with all customer experience technologies, we want to make sure that we are looking at things from the perspective of the customer and improving things from their perspective, not from ours.

    The perception for good or ill is that Chatbots are a money saving job cutting technology that companies used to avoid spending money on customer service and avoid spending money on customer experience and reduce headcount.

    There is some truth to that, right? however you choose to deploy Chatbots or any customer experience technology.

    You want to avoid playing into that perception, right? You want to use the tools for what they’re best at.

    Not use them to cut costs, you want to use them to enhance the customer experience not take away from it.

    So what are What are Chatbots? Good for? Right? What’s repetitive getting basic information? Right? What are your hours? That’s that’s a question that is well suited for a bot.

    Basic asking for help.

    So a bot that can say it like, if you’re here for help, how can we help? Do you want someone to call you to ask someone to email you do want to do a live chat, whatever the case is, you can use the box to reach out and ask people how they want to be helped.

    Probably not tried to, you know, build a massive botnet to help on behalf of the customer.

    Unless you know that there is just there’s one thing that everybody needs help with.

    You probably should fix that thing first.

    Third is finding Resources bots are really good at helping somebody navigate especially if you got a large website, you have a large support catalog if you have a like, say you’re a consumer products company, and there’s, you know, 500 frequently asked questions and manual pages and stuff on your website, a bot is really good at helping somebody skip the navigation, as long as the natural language processing was good and say like, I need help with the manual for these new headphones, you know, the Model X 722 had headphones, and the bot should if it’s well programmed to be able to find that content for the customer, and get it to them and forth of courses that bots are really good at greeting and proactively introducing known resources.

    So as part of that introductory phase when the customer first comes to the website, the bot to be able to say Hey, welcome.

    Here’s some things that people commonly look for.

    What can I help you with that way? realize this bot is here to help the customer experience to help them get to their answers faster.

    That’s really what they’re good at is get people to an answer faster.

    What are they bad at? Well, bots are really bad at handling anomalies and exceptions, right? When somebody writes in says, Hey, I got the new Xm 22 headphones and they caught on fire.

    That is an exception.

    I hope it’s an exception.

    That’s something that again should not be something that the software should we try and handle that’s something that ideally if there if a bot is well constructed to has anomaly, an exception detection and set and immediately routes to a human to help out bots today, even with really good models are still not great at natural language queries and conversations, right? There’s still a tremendous amount of training that has to happen now it’s getting much, much better two years ago, I would have said they were terrible natural language processing period, but they are Much, much better than it used to be, they’re still not as good as a person.

    And most of all, bots are really bad handling unhappy customers, right? If someone is angry or upset or frustrated, you want to get them to a human as quickly as possible.

    You do not want to try to get them to avoid talking to a human.

    Because that’s not why that person is there.

    One of the things that companies need to think about is that sometimes in some cases depending on how frustrating your product is, your human support almost has to have some like basic therapist training to help to help a person get out of an unhappy emotional state first before solving their problem.

    That is not something about can do, period.

    Now looking forward in 2020, what do we expect to happen? The last two years have been absolutely exceptional in what has happened to Natural Language Processing and our ability for machines to understand language.

    You’ve heard big news this year about Google’s BERT models, and open a eyes GPT to technology and many, many, many other pre trained models.

    Those are continuing to grow and complexity.

    Those are continuing to process data and language really well.

    And I expect that to be the case in 2020 as well.

    Making use of those pre trained models is getting better.

    The ability for people to simply download a massive pre trained model, tune it up a little bit for their use case and then deploy it has gotten substantially easier in the last year or so.

    And again, I expect that to continue and that that the impact of that is that you will be able to hit the ground running with a chat bot or any AI task that uses language much faster.

    Download the model, spend maybe a couple of days tuning it and immediately roll it out in production.

    Chatbots software continues to improve as well, it continues to get easier for people to deploy two years ago, you were rolling up your sleeves and coding.

    Right? That was just how you got a chat bot running.

    And one of the reasons why initial people who tried it out were like, Man, this is not for us because it’s a lot of work to support.

    Many services are getting much easier to use, drag and drop, or very, very simple code.

    I was sitting down with one of my kids over this past weekend, and we built a first our first bought in discord and it was very straightforward and you know, some basic Python to get it connected and stuff, super, super easy.

    Download template and just modify it.

    So bots are getting much easier for brands to deploy as well.

    So those are what we have to look forward to for the future of customer experience the future Chatbots in 2020, there are any number of things that could change that we can Can’t see right now.

    We may have a revolution in compute power.

    For example, if that happens, it could be a massive game changer.

    So some things to look forward to no matter what.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Amazon Alexa vs. Google Home for Marketers

    You Ask, I Answer_ Alexa vs. Google Home for Marketers

    Drew asks, “What’s your take on Amazon’s smart assistant and devices versus Google’s?”

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    In today’s episode drew asks what’s your take on Alexa versus Google Home

    two different takes one as a consumer certainly you want to

    choose the smart assistant that matches the ecosystem You are the biggest participant in so if you have amazon prime and you have amazon music and all these different services there then obviously you choose and Amazon device if you are much more tied into the Google ecosystem and you choose your Google devices it’s pretty straightforward for use cases if you’re going to use the device for things like education and search it is 100% Google Amazon’s searches appalling and and for found that helpful

    if you are going to be doing things like commerce, obviously having the ability to have Alexa drop ship things to your house is is the way to go. So it really depends on the use case on the consumer side, for the marketer. The question is a little more nuanced and a little more interesting. It depends on who your audience is, if your audience is in the Amazon ecosystem as consumers, then obviously it makes sense to go there. And the market share right now I’m taking a look here looks like it’s about two to one still were twice as many consumers have Alexa devices as they do Google Home devices. But Google critically has something that Amazon does not Google has a smartphone base, thanks to Android. And so the number of people who couldn’t use the Google Assistant overall, is substantially larger. So that said, when you’re developing branded skills for these platforms, Amazon has skills and Google has what’s called actions, they are different, they are different in terms of the ability to do things like development and burgeoning and stuff like that,

    if you are a b2c crowd, I would definitely say that prioritizing development on on Alexa would make the most sense, because again, it’s it’s the end consumer crowd, if you are heavily invested already, in things like search engine marketing and search engine optimization, it is relatively trivial to use that experience to help crossover on google home when coming up with actions and things like that, for have a Google Home device to take

    Google Home, particularly now that it has screens, devices, devices with screens, that gives it access to things like YouTube, which if again, if you’re already publishing content like this on YouTube, it is a trivial step to get that content to show up on a screen device. Google’s home devices, seven shipping since March of 28, I think.

    But their official

    Google branded devices just started shipping at the end of October 2018.

    If your customers search if your customers interact with your brand via rich media,

    I would argue that Google’s devices a little bit easier for a marketer us if you have a podcast and you’re not listed with Google podcasts, you’re missing a massive opportunity because Google Home and it’s an and all the smartest distance connect to the Google podcast directory. And so you can say, hey, Google, play the latest episode of marketing over coffee, or Hey, Google Play police episode of in here insights. And it will obviously go through the podcast directory, find those things, fish them out, and, and and start playing audio for you. Some folks have taken to making branded skills

    that you can install on either platform. And I think that’s a perfectly fine idea. I don’t know if it’s the best use of your time if you don’t have a lot of budgets. Because developing a skill is no different than developing something like a

    mobile app. It requires programming experience, it requires you to

    put together a smart back end the SDK is the software development kits that exist for these platforms are good for assembling simple stuff. But if you want to have a a rich conversational bought, for example, you need to hook into one of the machine learning platforms and IBM, you can hook into, into Watson assistant, you can hook into Google’s Cloud Platform, AWS, etc.

    One of the interesting points that a developer on media made was that your chat platform, your conversational platform should not be tied to any one ecosystem, you should have

    that code abstracted and running somewhere else. And then use the the relevant SDK to connect to your your chat platform. But that way your chat platform uses its own machine learning can power Alexa compiler, Google can power a chat bot on your website can power of social media chat pod, so you want to have that abstract today, a level up from and as opposed to building something custom only for each platform, you want to have that logic in that investment be spread across multiple different locations. So there’s a lot of things to consider when you’re looking at how do you want to work with the smart assistant

    environment. One thing I would say, if you want to get started relatively easy. Again, make sure that you’re listed. If you’ve got a podcast already, make sure that you’re listed in all the relevant podcast systems. Like if you use a hosting company, like Lipson. For example, they can post your podcast to these different directories that will get indexed by Google Home, and I believe by Alexa as well. And there and it can push to and Alexa skill for your podcast. So

    to the extent that you can leverage the media, you’re already that’s probably the easiest way to get into that environment and get people listening to what you have to say the chat bots stuff a little bit harder. And then

    for the screen devices, one of the one of the serious drawbacks of Amazon is that it cannot access YouTube. Google has blocked it. And they have their own little walled gardens and stuff. And so there’s no simple way to get your video content directly onto an Alexa device the way you can on a Google device. So that’s something worth considering as well. If you’re already publishing video, it’s probably going to be on the Google side. So good question. Tough question. And the ecosystem is, as everyone knows, rapidly evolving there is it’s estimated by analysis, marketing that by 2022, when in four short years, you may be looking at anywhere from 300 to 400 million of these devices, possibly more, depending on if the price points keep coming down. And the features keep getting more distributed.

    With Amazon’s announcement about the echo drive, the ability for your device to sit in your car would not surprise me to see Google come up with an equivalent device very shortly as well, that will

    continue to change contexts. But think about how people use these devices. Audio is probably your best bet because people can listen and do something else. So if there’s a device in the kitchen, the device in the car, treat it like podcasting and have content that is great, that is worth listening to. And that is

    that is something that people can tune into while they multitask with something else. So great question. As always, please leave comments in the comment boxes and subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel. Talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Should You Deploy a Chatbot?

    You Ask, I Answer_ Should You Deploy a Chatbot_

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    “Should my business deploy a chatbot for marketing and customer service? What are the reasons or risks?”

    Chatbots – and any form of automation – promise a programmatic, uniform customer experience. There are two considerations for making this decision:

    • Cost to match the current customer experience
    • Quality of the current customer experience

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    First, how much time, energy, and effort are you willing to invest in building the chatbot? If you’re looking for a fast, easy, solution that’s basically an out-of-the-box experience for you, the marketer, chances are the experience you’re going to provide is terrible. If you’re willing to invest weeks, months, or even years plus lots of people, effort, knowledge, and money to create and tune the AI behind today’s chatbots exclusively for your business, chances are the experience you’re going to provide will be good.

    Second, what’s the quality of the current experience you’re providing? If you’re providing a great experience with humans now, then the bar for your chatbot is very high and it’s going to take a lot of time and resources to match that experience. If the experience you provide now is appalling – think Department of Motor Vehicles awful – then the bar for your chatbot is very low and pretty much anything except literally slapping customers in the face will be an improvement.

    Those are the two levers you have to honestly audit and measure first. The latter, the customer experience, has many, many measurement systems like surveys, Net Promoter Scores, etc. that you can use to judge your customer experience. If your scores are terrible, then a chatbot could be a promising alternative – but also, take some time to fix your current customer experience and you might find a chatbot is unnecessary.

    One important distinction: tinkering with and trying out chatbots is something every marketer should be doing. Whether or not you deploy them, you should be testing them out to learn more and see what’s possible.

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