What's Next For Accounting? - Issue #81
Jason Staats
May 04, 2023
How to TALK to ChatGPT
To get value out of ChatGPT, you just have to spend time with it.
If you sat down to lunch with it you’d be talking to smartest person who’d ever lived. Smarter than your boss, your know-it-all brother in law, Google or Siri. They’d let you yammer on as long as you wanted. That’s what we have at our disposal today.
The biggest source of friction is having to hop over to another app & hammer out a prompt. Using GPT over voice is admittedly still harder than it seems like it ought to be, but it may eliminate friction for some:
1️⃣ Bing App
Download it for free from the app store on iOS or Android. Bing is technically GPT-4 married with web search results, but the goal is to lean further into GPT when problem-solving.
I have a love-hate relationship with Bing. I’m not sure I ultimately prefer it to vanilla GPT, but it’s the easiest one to use at the moment. I use the Bing widget on iOS, which has a voice prompt button you can use from your home screen.
This extension add a voice button to the usual ChatGPT interface. Click the mic button, or hold down space bar to enable speech-to-text.
3️⃣ JackChat
This is actually my favorite right now, and seems to be pulling current info from the web to augment the GPT responses. The downside is it doesn’t have a widget I can use to launch it from my home screen on mobile.
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📅 This Week
The big AI news of the week was the launch of Karbon AI - I ran through how it works, and how to make it even better on my pod today
I wrote a blog post on how to build long-term memory into AI, which will turn it into an organization asset we develop over time
The vector database company I referenced in the above writeup, Pinecone, just raised $100M (it isn’t just me I swear)
Tailor Hartman got access to the ‘code interpreter’ ChatGPT plugin, and used it to classify accounting transactions. Apologies in advance I think there was an exorcism happening in the background of that video
Here’s the AI talk I gave on the AICPA Town Hall if you missed it
OpenAI raised $300M to accelerate the end of days
Replit raised $97M - if you know just a wee bit of code, you can probably build apps with Replit. I built a Chrome extension recently and wouldn’t have otherwise been capable of that
This week I shared a bunch of alternate revenue streams for accounting firms - Gumroad put together a great guide for how to build a killer product page for those assets you develop
ElevenLabs lets you train super realistic voice models of yourself, but you can now also clone your voice in a language you don’t speak. Early testing has worked well with my Minnesotan in-laws
I was recently interviewed on the Woodard Report Podcast
Parsio is now my go-to for email & document parsing
AI-powered accounting & finance platform Trullion raises a $15M series A
Guidde is like Scribe, but uses GPT to make your how-to guide fancier
😍From The Community
05/15 🕸️ Into The Chadiverse with Chad Davis
05/16 💘 Swiping Right - Quoting through Engagement with Kellie Parks
05/16 💻 Demo Day - Syft with Jason Staats
05/17 🏫 Hall Pass - Marketing System with Brandon Hall
05/24 🎤 Who Runs The World - “This girl is on fire” with Twyla Verhelst
My community Realize is a private space for people to swap ideas & collaborate. At $180/mo it’s also the way I finance everything else I do, pay a full-time creative director, and a part-time developer in an effort to make the accounting industry a slightly better place 💗 The community is currently about 300 members strong.