ChatGPT iPhone app is here

If you’ve still not yet tested out ChatGPT, now you can do it anywhere your phone goes.

Some big ChatGPT news worth noting, including beta access for it to surf the open web and the ability to TURN OFF the model training data (which is critical to those of us using it for marketing).

And… OpenAI just released a dedicated iPhone app for ChatGPT, which is free to download and includes no ads. Download it here!

The app will sync your account’s ChatGPT history across all devices and includes support for Whisper, which means you can use your voice with ChatGPT in a native app on your phone now.

Here’s the other thing — it has haptic feedback, so you can literally FEEL the A.I.’s written responses as it flows in. Note: It doesn’t look like you can turn off model training data or use the live web plugin via mobile yet, but this is a big big step.

If you’ve still not yet tested out ChatGPT, now you can do it anywhere your phone goes.

PS: If you downloaded one of these fake ChatGPT apps, delete them!

🐠 Help a Fish in The Netherlands by Ringing This Doorbell

When humans build lock and dam systems on rivers it can affect fish migration patterns. Enter the visdeurbel (aka fish doorbell), which is a project in the city of Utrecht that help the lock manager know to open the lock to let fish through.

Workers open the lock to let boat traffic through, but it’s harder for them to know when fish are waiting to cross. (Since they’re underwater and all.) Hence the webcam: You can log on from anywhere in the world to watch for fish. When you see them waiting, press the big red button to ring the “doorbell” for them. This alerts the lock keeper, who can then open the lock. - Lifehacker

This is SO COOL. And you know what? People aren’t abusing it. It restores my faith in digital humanity. Try it here.

🎓 6 new skills for 2025

Synthetic image created in Midjourney via @gregswan

This week a professor at Texas A&M falsely accused his students of using ChatGPT because he asked ChatGPT if the A.I. platform had written the assignments and it said it had. That’s not how ChatGPT works, and also, what if he taught them HOW to use generative technology instead of knee-jerk being anti the technology?

In that spirit, the CEO of Axios wrote an amazing shortlist of 6 new skills “for rising professionals eager to thrive in this wild, man-meets-machine unknown,” and I have to share them with you.

1. Creativity: Machines will do a lot of chores — research, sifting, analysis, idea generation, writing, editing, sorting, chart creation. The big winners: creative thinkers who understand and exploit these capabilities in original and hyperproductive ways.

2. Ethics: I tell my kids to take ethics and philosophy classes — they'll be dealing with some weird crap in the years ahead. One example: interacting with machines that can mimic human interaction and relationships. (Watch the 2013 film, "Her," with Joaquin Phoenix for a taste.) If you're out of school, spend some time reading and thinking about the implications of harmful uses of machines with awesome power.

3. Human connectivity: This might strike you as a peculiar "skill." But with more people than ever working in isolation (outside the office, alone at home), the experience, empathy and emotional joy that flow from learning to work with and shape others will grow greatly in importance. It's impossible to learn to manage or lead if you stare at a screen and rarely see others in person. One thing machines will never be is us.

4. Agility: Everything will move and change faster than today as machines grow closer to true artificial general intelligence (the ability to think creatively like us). Consider how computers or the internet changed jobs and industries. Get comfortable with fast change. Stay open to quick shifts. Broaden your ability to roll with it.

5. Resilience: I believe you can practice grit. Set small challenges in your hobbies, habits, exercise and diet to train yourself to absorb — and bounce back from — setbacks or abrupt change. Start training now. It's hard to imagine a future short on wild twists and turns, especially at work.

6. Bionic brain: It'll get easier to find, sort and synthesize healthy and helpful content — if you're discerning about the source. Own your information-consumption diet. Know the source. Filter out garbage or fake crap. Your goal: Get smarter, faster across more topics. This will sharpen all five skills above — and lead to vastly more success.

So great. Thanks to Jim VandeHei for writing those and sharing them with Axios readers. I agree with Jim and don’t think the impact of generative AI is overhyped, but I do think it’s understood. This is why we all need to spend some time thinking, learning, challenging, and exploring this new era.

⚡️ Social Signals

Want a free TV? What if there’s a catch, and the catch is that the TV has a SECOND TV hooked to it that streams ads 24/7 and the entire system continuously captures your browsing and shopping habits, but you still get a free TV? If you shrugged and though, “Okay,” here’s the link to sign up for the waitlist for Telly TV. I feel like futurists have been predicting free appliances and free cars and things in exchange for full-access to your data, and it’s finally here. This will be an interesting experiment in giving consumers more transparency into the digital data they’re dropping all the time in exchange for a product that’s not that expensive anymore. Yeah, I signed up to test it…

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, plus Telegram, WeChat, and Temu from government devices. And yes, a group of incredibly well-organized TikTok creators based in Montana filed a lawsuit in response citing both free speech and challenging the role of a state in protecting national security.

“The law takes the broadest possible approach to its objectives, restricting and banning the protected speech of all TikTok users in Montana to prevent the speculative and unsubstantiated possibility that the Chinese government might direct TikTok Inc., or its parent, to spy on some Montana users,” the complaint states.

It’ll probably be appealed and overturned, but it’s another weird sign of elected leaders choosing weird things to legislate against while completely ignoring other things.

The majority of highly active Twitter users continue to use the site following Musk’s takeover but are posting less frequently on average, according to new Pew research. Six-in-ten U.S. adults who have used Twitter in the past year say they have taken a break from the platform recently. And a quarter of these users say they are not likely to use Twitter a year from now. Like always, brands should continue to reevaluate their resources and priorities as consumers evolve their choices. I’m still not giving up on Twitter, but as always, I will drop it when something better comes along.

🔥 Quick Hits

• TikTok has a new font: TikTok Sans.

• Good read from Harvard Business Review: Yes, the Metaverse Is Still Happening.

• Niantic’s new mobile game Peridot is Pokémon GO meets Tamagotchi. Download it here.

• Rat brains have GPS and this YouTube short tees up that function so well.

• US Supreme Court ruled against the Andy Warhol Foundation in a closely watched copyright lawsuit that could be used as a precedent for generative AI creations.

• I’m sorry but I laughed so hard about this Angry Bird reading fan fiction on a brand channel.

• iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training.

• This is a great read from Kate: When did we get so bad at typing?

• This is a good TikTok video that explains how the Recaptcha program works.

• According to @Time_Remaining, we have 62% of the year left. Time to get going!

See you in the future!
Greg