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10 Everyday Tasks Solved with ChatGPT: A Marketer’s Secret to Mastering AI
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In this episode of AI-Driven Marketer, Dan Sanchez shares ten ways he's used ChatGPT to tackle everyday challenges, proving that frequent interaction with AI not only solves problems but helps marketers master the technology for their craft. From troubleshooting Adobe Illustrator issues to creating custom workflows for homeschooling and even generating email HTML, Dan explains how using AI in diverse tasks can supercharge your marketing skills. Whether you’re a marketer or just looking to boost productivity, this episode offers real-world examples of how ChatGPT can enhance your daily life.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to the episode and Dan's journey with ChatGPT
03:00 - Using ChatGPT to replace Google for niche research
06:10 - Building a custom GPT for podcast production
09:45 - Troubleshooting design issues in Adobe Illustrator
12:50 - AI-powered homeschooling: Grading and feedback automation
16:30 - Solving math problems and word puzzles with ChatGPT
19:30 - Generating subdomain ideas for marketing campaigns
22:00 - Creating rubrics and grading systems with ChatGPT for homeschooling
25:00 - Extracting HTML code from images
27:00 - Sharing WiFi details via iPhone with ChatGPT
29:00 - Identifying guitar chords through image recognition with ChatGPT
31:00 - Final thoughts: The importance of consistent experimentation with AI
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Transcript
Mastering AI in Daily Life
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome back to the AI-Driven Marketer. My name's Dan Sanchez. My friends call me Danchez. And today I wanna give you some inspiration on how to use AI to fix everyday problems that are you're running into. This show is dedicated to learning AI and mastering AI. It's what I'm here to do for 2024. And we are well on our way. And I wanted to show you just a bunch of little ways to give you inspiration how to incorporate AI into like your your average daily life problems by showing you how I've done it with some of mine.
00:00:32
Speaker
I find that I learn a ton by essentially trying to use AI to fix every problem I could think of, whether it's actually a good idea or not, just essentially to get to the learnings of see how far it could go. Because if you can see where AI fails and where it succeeds and all the nuances of in between those two things, you start to actually figure out what it's capable of so that when you have other like real problems, business problems maybe that you want to solve, you kind of know what it's capable of.
Replacing Google with AI
00:00:59
Speaker
So I'm constantly pulling out my phone and asking it questions, testing it, pushing the envelope to see where the limitations are, to see what it's fully capable of doing in order to better understand where AI is and where it's going. So today I brought brought forward 10 different chat GPT conversations that I've had with AI, some with custom GPTs that I've made, some with just plain fresh chat GPT 4.0 that I'm using, and you can use these with other AI models too.
00:01:29
Speaker
So I'm going to be walking through it visually, though I'll be express talking about it if you're just listening on in your car or if you're on a run or something. but Since this is a video podcast, you can watch it on Apple Podcasts. Just pull it, pull open the full episode and you'll see the video playing there if you want to watch while you're cooking or something. Or go over to YouTube or aidrivementmarketer.com. You can watch the video in all those three places. But for now, let's dive in to see how I've used it in order to get some inspiration to see how you might be able to use it in your life.
Streamlining Podcast Production
00:01:58
Speaker
So the first one I have here is I just had a general question. Instead of going to Google, I went to chat GPTs. I find the chat GPT gives me pretty good answers on this. And I just asked what the practical uses of, what what are some of the practical uses of 3d printing? Because I have a neighbor that got a 3d printer and they were printing some little like toys and things that my kids had been playing with. And I'm like, like, I've always kind of been interested in tech, hence AI podcasts. I'm like, what, how could I possibly justify buying a 3d printer? um tell me about this. So I had a little conversation and and at first it gave me a pass over like a pretty broad spectrum of 3D printing use cases and I told it to narrow the results just like you do at Google, you do a general pass and then you can narrow the results because now you know a little bit more specifically and I wanted to look for stuff that I could do within my garage and it kind of gave me
00:02:44
Speaker
some ideas of what i could what I could consider, what I could make, decent setup, maintenance. And then I just, I think I actually stopped there because it gave me a bunch of different ideas and it kind of gave me the idea that I i didn't know. So essentially I'm replacing search Google search with chat GPT in order to learn on a very niche topic of 3D printing.
00:03:03
Speaker
And this is something that I just did on my phone on the couch as my kids were talking about the 3D printer with their friends to see if there was some use case that it was actually useful for me. And I found that there kind of is not. I'm like, I'm in this digital space with AI and stuff and I don't really have a lot of use cases to get into 3D printing myself. But it was nice to just have a conversation with chat GPT to give me an overview. And I found it what I got back, I think was faster than what I would have gotten if I had just gone directly to Google.
00:03:30
Speaker
ah Perplexity probably would have been as well. And when search GPT comes out, that probably would have worked as well too, to be able to pull stuff from the internet and then
Solving Design Problems with AI
00:03:38
Speaker
interact with it here. But in this case, I knew chat GPT could give me a broad understanding of what I needed to learn about 3D printing in that very moment. So let's move to the next one.
00:03:46
Speaker
this next one is one of my most frequent use cases for chat gpt and it's for a custom custom gpt i developed called my showrunner you can actually go to my showrunner.com to get the instructions paste them into your own custom gpt and just use it or if you have a free account you can even find a link to be able to use a a pre-built custom gpt for my showrunner if you want to use this yourself but it's something that i use all the time pretty much for every podcast episode, for guests for sure, but even for solo episodes like this one, I'm working with AI in the pre-production to outline the episode ahead of time. So this one was for a recent guest I had, which is coming out a little after the show. So you're getting a little sneak peek here. I interviewed Lisa Adams. um She's a fractional CMO that I think is crushing it with with AI, and I can't wait to release her episode.
00:04:35
Speaker
But this one's pretty smooth. like i <unk> It's essentially pre-programmed to ask me a certain set of questions, and we go through the same process every time. But it's really good at offering ideas at different stages. I told that we want to do a guest. I gave it i copied and pasted it ah Lisa's and profile.
00:04:50
Speaker
And then it said, great, this is a quick summary about your guests. What do you want to interview them about? um And I said, I want to talk about AI, using AI to fix bottlenecks in your businesses, because that's something she posts a lot about on LinkedIn. ah It goes back and offers me five different angles I can take around this topic based on her experience, based on what it knows about my show. I pick one. See, I just give it a number. Number one. It's easy.
00:05:12
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um And it's like, perfect. here's Based on that angle and their experience and your show, here's 10 different titles. And of course, I think I picked one and then probably tweaked it a little bit and said, put it in there. I even asked it a question, is this grammatically to correct? It said, yes, it's grammatically correct. So it's funny because you can create this very specific path for a chat GPT to go down, but even deviate a little bit and throw some curveballs in there, like asking it to evaluate my my title's grammar.
00:05:38
Speaker
So we move forward with that. It created the episode outline, the questions. It even wrote the email that I sent to Lisa afterwards. um After that, I wait until after the episode's done, I paste in the transcript. And it does the work of creating the show notes, which is just a brief overview time stamps.
00:05:55
Speaker
and then even generating a journey prompts for this episode. Now that it knows the title, now that it knows the content and has the overview of it, you know it creates the mid-journey prompts that I then use. It creates five prompts for me. I use all five and then pick the winner and event and change it a little bit in Photoshop in order to make the cover art for this episode. And that's one of my favorite uses for AI is just speeding up the pre-production and even in this case, post-production process on podcasts because there's so many little steps that AI is fantastic at.
00:06:22
Speaker
If you could just break down your process for it. i think every business and Anybody in marketing, but even in business, has processes that they run to. Every time they get this, after this meeting, they always go through this process. Every time they line up this project, they they have the launch process. Every time they're doing a post-mortem on a project, they have to do this process.
00:06:40
Speaker
If you can outline your process, chances are AI can automate quite a few steps of it. So think about how you can do it, because I did it for AI podcast production here, but you can do more yourself. So think about how you can build that into a custom GPT. And if you need to learn more about custom GPTs, just go to AIdrivenmarketer dot.com and just search custom GPTs and all the episodes around that will come up and we'll kind of walk you through how to set those up and build them. So let's go to the next one.
AI in Education
00:07:05
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The next option I had with chat GPT here was around troubleshooting a problem that I was running into an Adobe Illustrator. I was doing some design work for a client and accidentally hit a quick key of some kind that changed the whole layout. And I was like, oh no, what did I push? And I didn't even know what to call it.
00:07:25
Speaker
um So I just explained the problem to AI gave me some ideas great ideas or they didn't work So then I went back and forth with it. I said hey, it's not this it's more this and it gave me some more ideas I tried it said it didn't work. And finally I took a screenshot of my screen. I'm like, this is what I'm seeing How do I make this? How do I make this white screen if you're if you're looking along with me? I have a screenshot of illustrator here essentially if you're in design you know like the back of the background or outside the artboards are where you're designing or a dark gray so you could focus on the thing and that had turned off and become all white which is a pain probably looks more like Figma now which I don't like and then finally it's like based on your screenshot of my problem it actually correctly identified it and got me to the part where I could fix it actually I went through one other clarification and then finally got to the point where I could fix it
00:08:12
Speaker
because it went now that it better understood what was going on it actually went and did a search and found the answer in a community forum um from adobe and found the exact quick key that i needed to press in order to turn it back because i didn't know what i had pressed and i tell you like working through problems like this can take a long time if you're just doing Google searches and you're searching through forums you're not finding the answer you're not even sure what you're looking for because you can't even really properly define the problem but having a conversation with AI to troubleshoot technical problems is actually really nice and especially considering you can take screenshots of the problem if you have something to show it.
00:08:48
Speaker
um It's really great at helping you identify the problem, narrowing down the issues, and giving you step-by-step instructions just like a tech would if they were on the phone with you, working through the issue with you. So if you ever have a tech problem, try throwing it to AI. It can help. This fourth use case I have is one of my personal favorites. It's my personal life. I homeschool my kids. My wife takes reading and writing, and I take on ah science and and Bible teaching.
00:09:12
Speaker
But I made a custom GPT to help me with the the history and the science because I have them write journal entries after each history and science lesson. But a bottleneck became me grading it and giving them feedback, but they needed it. So I created this custom GPT where I can take a picture of their writing. You can see I have a a not a screenshot, a photo I took with my my iPhone and just uploaded it to custom the custom GPT and added their name. And it goes and runs through and creates a root and a rubric that actually co-created with AI.
00:09:40
Speaker
It runs through the Rubik and grades it. So this one's, this one's for Noah's, I think, and they gave it a score, seven out of 10, and he gave it a three out of five on understanding, a two out of three on organization, and two and two out of mechanical, on proper, like, grammar mechanics.
00:09:56
Speaker
And it gives really good feedback on how to improve it. Amazingly, it can read like my son's handwriting, which isn't bad for fifth grade. But I was impressed that I could actually read it. Even in this poorly lit photo, it could read it. And even if it can't quite read the word, it knows what he's trying to say, which is amazing. So it speeds up my whole homeschooling process. But just think about that. You can upload pictures of writing from elementary schoolers and you can read it. It is very intelligent.
00:10:25
Speaker
And I just go to show, ghost goes to show you, this isn't a practical marketing marketing application, but it shows you like the breadth of what it's actually capable of doing. Because there might be performance evaluations that you can do in your department. Some of it you just need to take pictures of and give it evaluation. Shoot, you have past design projects that maybe you need to take a picture of a brochure and have it evaluate the design of the brochure because you can't take a screenshot of the digital one for whatever reason. You don't have access to the art. But you can interact through chat GPT and a photo and soon, um very soon it'll be a video way where you can actually have it record your screen while you're doing something. But for now, you can take photos with your iPhone and have it evaluate what you're actually seeing. I have another one more illustration of using photos coming
AI's Problem-Solving Capabilities
00:11:07
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up. In this fifth example, it's fun because everybody kind of knows that like chat GPT and AI kind of struggles with math. That's not true. It's actually very good at math. What it struggles with is counting. I know, it seems like how could you be good at math and algebraic expressions and be bad at counting? well i don't really understand the nuances of why it is but ah i promise it's actually pretty good at math but bad at counting simple things like counting the amount of r's and strawberries is a famous thing that it just struggles with for some reason it won't in the future but for now it struggles with simple counting but is actually pretty good at arithmetic in this case i ah some friends and i were discussing
00:11:44
Speaker
how many dollars you would earn in 365 days if you put a dollar in a jar for the amount for the day. So if you counted all the days in a year by one all the way to 365 and you added a dollar each day, so one dollar day one, two dollars day two, three dollars day three, how much money would you end up with at the end of 365? So I asked chatgpt to come up with the calculation and it's funny because I was going to chatgpt. Everybody else was going to calculators and Google to try to figure out the math behind it.
00:12:14
Speaker
but chatgpt we checked it did get it right and it worked through all the logic of it to come up with the algebraic expression to calculate it and it was right and if you're wondering if you can't see it on my screen because you're listening it's sixty six thousand seven hundred and ninety five dollars if you did that But I thought it was kind of a fun example just to show you that it actually is good at math if you can give it a word problem of a kind. So it's great at word problems because it's good at algebra. And what it's not good at is counting simple things, especially counting like the amount of characters in a sentence or different things like that. Basic math, it's bad at. That's math. It's actually pretty good at like or I say intermediate math because algebra is it's not doing
00:12:55
Speaker
ah As far as I know, I haven't seen anybody use it to solve calculus type problems, but maybe I can, but it is good at solving algebra. So your everyday word problems, it's actually pretty good. Check it out sometime. For the sixth one, I wanted to show one that you could probably experience as a marketer all the time, but coming up with subdomains, I needed i was coming up with land i needed to come up with more landing page options for domain names using a subdomain. and I was like, huh, how many what are the most common subdomains used with domain names?
00:13:22
Speaker
So I can have some more options in my marketing automation platform high level to choose from when I'm making it so I don't have to think about it later. And it gave me a whole list of possible ones ah to choose from and I picked out some of them that I'm gonna be using for my own and to myself later on. But things like blog.companyname.com, shop.companyname.com, store.companyname.com, support.companyname.com. like i I just wanted to list like this. And then I have it evaluated a little a little bit more. I'm like, okay, give me give me like domain hacky ones.
00:13:52
Speaker
like delicious if you remember delicious old old us i mean old like old school social media um that yahoo eventually bought and sold but long story but like about dot.me enter dot.net exam.ol you know like domain hacky and he gave me a bunch of examples of it and i kind of found what i need between the two lists But there's all kinds of needs or experimentations or things where I just need lists of ideas that are very specific. And if you give it enough detail in the prompt, and this one, I didn't even need a lot of details, literally just one sentence prompt, and I got one I needed. So I'm using it all the time to come up with ideas. This would have been one that Google would have probably failed on. Maybe maybe there's someone who wrote a blog on this, but come on, like coming up with ideas around subdomains, probably not.
00:14:43
Speaker
In this seventh example, I have another homeschooling one. Like I said before, I had chat GPT come up with a rubric and I was actually trying to figure out and work with chat GPT to figure out not not only how to have a rubric, but how to grade a class. um I'm still a new homeschooler, about two years in, but I was kind of knew what I was looking for. I know my teachers use weighted grading systems and I was having it run math for me in order to figure out how to even like do a weighted grading system for my kids since we're starting to get old enough to have grades, calculate it all so I can actually have some documented progress shown for my kids. um But it's funny, you can actually approach GPT not quite knowing what you want and just have a conversation with it in order to figure out something fairly, I don't know, I'd say it's fairly sophisticated. I'm not having it write content, I'm not having it just spit out things. We're actually having a dynamic conversation around how to create a grading system that's going to work for the stuff that I'm using. It's so nice because oftentimes you can Google search and find generic answers, but what if you have nuances that are different for you? Well, AI can take those in mind and then and then change the content for what you're looking for. Again, this is vanilla chat GPT that I'm figuring this out with.
00:15:50
Speaker
and I actually arrived at a suitable solution based on what chat GPT gave me that I'm now using for my kids grading. You can think about all kinds of implications this has for marketing as you're trying to figure out like, yeah, I need to come up with a marketing plan, but our company has this one limitation and this one ah strength to maximize. How then can I go about for this specific little campaign that we need to create?
00:16:12
Speaker
chatgbt's ability to then customize best practices for your company based on the few pieces of context that you give it are phenomenal. So use it to solve niche little problems that only it can help you solve because Google will never be able to help you find the answer for it.
Efficiency in Task Automation
00:16:29
Speaker
In my eighth example, this is a short and sweet one, I had an email that I needed to turn into code, but it was all I had was the image of it. All I had was the screenshot of the content. And I'm like, not only do I need this typed out, but I need it like pre-written in HTML so that I can use it as a template for something else.
00:16:46
Speaker
I won't go into details of like what it was and why I needed it, but you could just take a screenshot of something like this and be like, hey, like put this into text and then rewrite it based on the style that you're seeing in the screenshot and turn it back into HTML, and it crushed it. First try. It gave me the HTML that I needed to reduplicate this email.
00:17:05
Speaker
so that I could then use it um in a different campaign as a template for future emails. I love being able to just quickly do it. Otherwise, like I would have had to have typed it all back out again and rewritten the HTML myself. I'm like, chatgbt, can you just do this real quick? Yes, sir. It can. Really fast.
00:17:22
Speaker
In this ninth example, I was troubleshooting just how to, another technical problem. Like how, how does one share, share a wifi with the dress, iPhone with another friend's iPhone. And it gave me exactly what I needed to know in eight steps. Simple, sweet, got it on the first try. I didn't even have to clarify afterwards. It was, it was nice.
00:17:41
Speaker
And on this last one, again, I was gonna talk about another use case of just being able to take a picture and have it give the results. It's smart enough that I i didn't know what chord my daughter who's learning guitar is like, what chord is this? And honestly, I kind of i knew how to use the chord, but I don't know a lot about guitar, but I couldn't remember the name of it. So I literally just took a picture of her hand in the right position. And it says, in this image, the chord appears to be a G major, which is like the most common chord in guitar history. I didn't know what the name is though.
00:18:07
Speaker
I could have Googled it, but I would have been and would have had to look through all the chord charts and kind of found it. But one quick picture got us the right chord so that we understood what the name was. Again, using I think people underutilize the photo feature and its ability to understand the context of what you're looking for based on the photo. I'm still amazed that you could just take a photo of a hand in a chord position. It's like, hey, that's the G chord. It's just so smart at being able to figure that stuff out.
00:18:34
Speaker
Again, marketing applications, you're wandering around all the time. And I'm i'm a very curious marketer. I could see, I would probably, I have example examples like this back in the past, but even taking pictures of things that I'm seeing in store, like, hey, why do marketers do it this way? Why do marketers have this? And just taking pictures of things and asking questions in order to learn and grow in my own profession.
00:18:54
Speaker
You could be doing the same thing and taking pictures and having a dialogue with it with Chat GPT because it's almost like this expert that you have in your pocket all the time. You could ask it things, have conversations, customize it, and get what you need to know faster.
Hands-On AI Learning
00:19:06
Speaker
So those are the 10 things that I've done with Chat GPT over the last six weeks or so. I just kind of pulled up a couple of different, varying, interesting ones. Of course, I'm using it to answer questions like ah that could be done on Google. But again, I'm trying to push the limits. And I pulled out a bunch of ones that were successful and that worked pretty well.
00:19:23
Speaker
Always be learning by doing, ah experimenting as much as possible. Not just listening to podcasts like this, but actually interacting with AI. This is where the real learning comes. You can get inspiration from podcasts and blog posts and prompt guides and all that different stuff, but the real learning comes from rolling up your sleeves, trying a bunch of different prompts, even refining your prompts and getting the first-hand knowledge by working hand-in-hand with it yourself.