<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">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.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div></div></div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 6, 2023, at 11:34 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 7:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="msg-4959902752226685341"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="m_-4959902752226685341WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class="">…</b>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ExI] Seastead Girl - the novel<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 6:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tara Maya via extropy-chat<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ExI] Seastead Girl - the novel<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…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…<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Compared to writing, the skill of marketing is fun and easy.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">>…Said firmly with tongue in cheek?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="msg-4959902752226685341"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="m_-4959902752226685341WordSection1"><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">ChatGPT might be able to offer suggestions on web groups, reddits and such, which might be profitable to join.</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Offering those suggestions, by itself, does not constitute an effective marketing effort.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="msg-4959902752226685341"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="m_-4959902752226685341WordSection1"><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Adrian you wrote SciFi books, ja? How did you market those?</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OTOH, for this book I'm writing now, I am doing a small amount of direct marketing to likely interested groups. 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