[ExI] Seastead Girl - the novel

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> I ask again. when will a future version of ChatGPT be able to contact third parties on one's behalf and conduct an effective marketing campaign by itself (upon receipt of a suitable prompt)?  The current version is unable to do this; it can only offer information for someone else to act upon.

It is already here. ChatGPT plugins endow it with the ability to access third party apis such as email. Additionally, apps made with LangChain endow these models with autonomy so that they can for example program, test, and debug software. Some companies are already using ChatGPT for recruitment.

> On Apr 6, 2023, at 11:34 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 7:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
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> …> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Seastead Girl - the novel
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> On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 6:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>> wrote:
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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>> On Behalf Of Tara Maya via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Seastead Girl - the novel
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> >…I'm working on it. I realize it is especially important since my book AI for Authors isn't available to most of my usual venues…
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> Compared to writing, the skill of marketing is fun and easy.
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> >…Said firmly with tongue in cheek?
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> Not at all.  Marketing a book requires the author to set up a website, for which ChatGPT can offer a good instruction set.  Then one must write a few compelling sentences to convince readers to buy.
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> Actually, setting up a Website is not required for all book marketing efforts.  More importantly, setting up a Website by itself is woefully insufficient to accomplish an effective amount of marketing for a book.
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> ChatGPT might be able to offer suggestions on web groups, reddits and such, which might be profitable to join.
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> Offering those suggestions, by itself, does not constitute an effective marketing effort.
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> I ask again. when will a future version of ChatGPT be able to contact third parties on one's behalf and conduct an effective marketing campaign by itself (upon receipt of a suitable prompt)?  The current version is unable to do this; it can only offer information for someone else to act upon.
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> Adrian you wrote SciFi books, ja?  How did you market those?
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> So far, I didn't.  The publisher did.  But I've seen enough of how the publisher did it.  Merely advising someone else on setting up a Website and listing groups to join, then calling that a complete marketing effort, would have gotten any would-be marketer fired by that publisher for refusal to attempt to perform their job.
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> OTOH, for this book I'm writing now, I am doing a small amount of direct marketing to likely interested groups.  This requires that I contact them, not merely advise someone else to contact them.
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