J Rice

My thoughts and mostly questions on future of search, ads, privacy and more in the age of GPTs. The introduction of ChatGPT is earth-shattering, and its introduction into internet search will be no different. This is a really deep area, but I will try to keep it short sort of,

Last week I was on a podcast that has not aired yet, lamenting our future when someone has figured out how to SEO AI systems like ChatGPT, etc. It looks like it may have happened: Has the Copilot SEO Spam War Begun?A few days ago I wanted to pull

Some serious changes are coming. New unforeseen roles will be created, and others will disappear. But, how we all work and live will change forever with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Some industries will rapidly move, and some already have and will change the very nature

I have recently been playing around with ChatGPT's ability to handle simple encrypted communications and encoded information within the encrypted text. And along with that, how to possibly mislead it. ChatGPT-35 was not exactly stellar at this, but ChatGPT-4 has improved. The one on the left is a

In a previous post, I demonstrated using ChatGPT to estimate a software development project integrating an existing Django project with the Jira API. And it gave some very reasonable answers. Today, I am prompting ChatGPT to estimate the same project in a very meta way. Now the estimate is to

In a previous post, I poked fun at ChatGPT for its confidently incorrect understanding of an abbreviation for a single word. That example was ChatGPT-3.5. Now with ChatGPT-4 the understanding has improved. It explains its reasoning and now gives correct answers if you ignore the Latin. Link to the

Continuing some table-turning with ChatGPT...it seems cooler if I call it table-flipping, though. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ I decided to have OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 ask me the questions, and the result is impressive. Even compared to ChatGPT-3.5. I had it ask me a series of questions to estimate the time it

Have you wanted to turn the tables on ChatGPT and it asks you the questions? Well, now is your chance. Just check out my following example. Given the correct prompt design, you can get ChatGPT to ask you a series of questions it thinks needs answered to derive the answer

The following is a fun demonstration of the many unexpected capabilities of ChatGPT. This is a classic problem, especially with children, of very few ingredients to make dinner and needing more time and energy for a last-minute grocery trip. In this example, I give it a contrived list of random

In a previous post, I demonstrated how a simple prompt in ChatGPT could be a great way to kick-start and facilitate orthogonal thinking. Here is another fun example of applying the cooperative nature of honeybees to the overall strategy for an online retailer. Original Post on LinkedIn: John Rice on