I Tested All Of Chatgpt's New App Integrations - Here Are The Ones Actually Worth Your Time

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OpenAI launched ChatGPT Apps earlier this week.
You tin link to apps for illustration Spotify and Canva wrong nan chatbot.
I put it to nan test, and nan results were mixed.

Imagine if you could mesh ChatGPT's conversational capabilities pinch your favourite apps to create a much intuitive experience. With ChatGPT Apps, that early isn't far-fetched.

At its largest developer convention yet, OpenAI DevDay, nan institution launched ChatGPT Apps, which, arsenic nan sanction implies, lets users entree definite apps straight wrong nan ChatGPT interface. At launch, these apps see Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Zillow, and Spotify, pinch 11 further partners and developer submissions joining later successful nan year.

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This acquisition is conscionable a glimpse of really ChatGPT mightiness usability successful nan adjacent future, which Nick Turley, caput of ChatGPT, told maine whitethorn beryllium much for illustration an operating system. To spot if ChatGPT Apps is really nan early of ChatGPT (and whether aliases not that would beryllium a bully thing), I put immoderate of nan apps to nan test.

How to get started

The ChatGPT Apps acquisition is unfastened to each users, including those connected nan free plan. To get started, simply type nan exertion sanction successful nan matter container arsenic nan first word. Then, if it's your first clip utilizing that entry, you'll beryllium asked to link ChatGPT to your relationship for that exertion by signing in. Every clip thereafter should beryllium arsenic elemental arsenic calling nan exertion sanction and getting started.

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Alternatively, you person nan action to activate and group nan apps up astatine once. Go to Settings, past Apps and Connectors. There, you tin browse nan apps to prime nan ones you are willing in. Once you do, you will beryllium taken to nan sign-in page for that app. You tin besides take to deactivate immoderate relationship astatine immoderate clip from nan aforesaid page successful nan Settings menu.

Connecting your exertion does mean you are sharing your app information pinch ChatGPT. While adjuvant for personalization features, if you are concerned astir wherever your information is going, you whitethorn want to cheque OpenAI's notes astir nan app feature, which specifications nan information protocols: "Data shared pinch apps is handled according to each app's position of work and privateness policies, which you'll spot earlier enabling nan app."

Now that you are group up, let's get started pinch testing.

Creating pinch Spotify and Canva

Spotify

Since the emergence of generative AI, we person been relying connected nan exertion chiefly to create caller content, specified arsenic matter messages and images. As a result, it was only earthy that immoderate of nan app integrations, including Spotify and Canva, successful ChatGPT service nan aforesaid purpose.

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I was most excited to effort nan Spotify integration, which, ideally, should fto you picture nan type of playlist you want curated and person it created for you. While Spotify has a akin characteristic successful its ain app, I was really hoping this 1 would beryllium better, arsenic Spotify's AI often misses nan people by selecting songs that consciousness somewhat arbitrary.

Spoiler alert: ChatGPT's integration did nan aforesaid thing.

In my first prompt, I asked nan bot to create a playlist based connected what I person been listening to arsenic of late: "Spotify Can you create maine a database of each of Taylor Swift's songs astir having a crush connected someone? Perks if it includes tracks from The Life of a Showgirl."

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The resulting playlist, which ChatGPT produced quickly, included 30 songs, but not each of them fresh nan theme. Some highlights included "marjorie," which Swift wrote astir her grandma who passed away, and "All Too Well (10-minute version)," which is nan eventual breakup anthem. Ouch.

The adjacent punctual I entered explored nan tool's personalization capabilities, which let it to create a caller playlist based connected your Spotify activity. For this prompt, I entered: "Spotify Can you make maine a caller playlist based connected my 'Roadtrippin pinch you' playlist? The vibe is that we some person different euphony tastes that we want to stock pinch each other, truthful we effort to encapsulate our euphony tastes. Also, nary sad songs, we want to singing on and vibe ideally."

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The result was a playlist that featured basal celebrated songs, which didn't bespeak my sensation (which is basic, but successful a different way, arsenic you tin spot from my Taylor Swift example), aliases nan different person's taste, which is overmuch much unsocial (think Indie but successful a random-songs-Spotify-serves-you benignant of way).

Canva

My acquisition pinch Canva was overmuch much straightforward. Since I americium penning this article connected NYC's first time of 50-degree weather, my punctual was: "Canva Can you make maine a poster that says, "It is officially autumn successful autumn successful NYC. Come complete to watch a autumn classic: When Harry Met Sally" and adhd autumn foliage decor. It's an induce I americium going to nonstop to my friends to travel over."

At a glance, nan posters look beautiful connected theme. However, upon person examination, it becomes evident that nan AI-generated images characteristic warped text. The AI besides took imaginative liberties by adding much verbiage that I didn't initially include. While nan contented wasn't successful a authorities wherever I could conscionable export it, it was highly adjuvant that I could unfastened nan task successful Canva. There, you tin tweak what you request and export, which is amended than having to commencement from scratch.

Using AI to thief pinch browsing connected Expedia and Zillow

Zillow

Out of each nan demos I saw astatine DevDay, nan Zillow 1 stood retired to maine nan astir because it utilized AI for a applicable application: thief pinch sorting. In nan demo, nan personification was capable to find homes and past select those results simply utilizing a matter prompt. For my testing, I recreated nan aforesaid acquisition for myself.

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For my starting prompt, I entered: "Zillow Can you thief maine find apartments successful Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY?" It instantly populated nan aforesaid representation you spot connected nan Zillow website aft moving a search. I followed up by asking to support apartments nether $2,000, and it automatically filtered down. You tin besides grow to afloat screen, which makes for a much comfortable viewing experience, moreover wrong ChatGPT's window.

As personification who conscionable spent 3 months connected Zillow trying to find a caller apartment, I recovered this characteristic highly adjuvant because it saved maine from having to Google nan website, past tweak nan toggles for nan area and specifications, and past tally nan search. Although this effort involves only a mates of steps, utilizing AI creates a much seamless experience, particularly since you tin travel up by asking related questions utilizing ChatGPT.

Expedia

The acquisition pinch Expedia was astir identical to that of Zillow. Expedia described nan partnership arsenic "Expedia intelligence, built into ChatGPT," which is really very accurate, arsenic this exertion utilizes ChatGPT arsenic an easier filtering system and besides features interactive prompts, making it other engaging.

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For example, my first punctual was "Expedia Help maine find places to enactment successful upstate New York for this weekend. I would for illustration to beryllium adjacent Woodstock." Not only did it supply maine pinch a representation that included a lodging option, but it besides followed up pinch a bid of questions I would want to see erstwhile readying this trip, specified arsenic fund and proximity to activities.

I followed up by asking nan AI to thief maine book flights, and a really convenient perk was that it already knew I lived successful NYC, truthful it considered that facet and instantly populated flights. This is simply a premier illustration of utilizing AI to heighten an existing experience, leveraging ChatGPT's representation characteristic to unlock caller opportunities that thief shoppers find what they need.

The verdict

ChatGPT Apps has nan imaginable to bring meaningful experiences to users. However, developers will request to leverage generative AI capabilities to heighten nan existing offering.

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For example, connected Zillow, nan ChatGPT integration makes it easier to entree nan hunt results you need. Similarly, nan Expedia integration makes it importantly easier to find what you want by straight asking and moreover receiving follow-up questions, conscionable arsenic a recreation supplier would. However, nan Spotify characteristic is simply a bully illustration of adding AI to lick an rumor that isn't really there, and that isn't executed properly.

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Ultimately, nan occurrence of Apps will dangle connected really developers take to merge their devices connected nan platform. However, it is safe to opportunity that, fixed nan affirmative interactions, ChatGPT could service arsenic an OS that group will want to use.