What if you could ask an AI not just to write
some things for you, but actually do things inside
the apps you use every day? We're really talking
about a fundamental shift here. Imagine just
opening a chat window and saying, design me a
clean, modern, professional resume. And maybe
15 seconds later, there it is. Popped up right
in your Canva account. I'll template it out.
That jump from just text to, well, immediate
action across different apps, it's already happening.
And it really changes what we think a chatbot
is. Welcome to the Deep Dive. Yeah, today we're
looking into this new apps feature inside chat
GPT. Our sources give us a pretty good roadmap
for how this connection actually works. Which
tools are making the biggest splash right now?
You know, design, music, learning, travel, and
maybe most importantly, the trade -offs, especially
around privacy. So our mission for you, the listener,
is really to give you a shortcut here. We want
you to get what AI can actually do now that it
hooks into your daily digital stuff. This feels
like the moment the chat bot stops just talking
and starts, you know, actually working for you,
like a real assistant. Okay, let's unpack. Check
that. This operational shift. Because before,
chat GPT was just stuck in its chat window. You
had to copy things out, paste them somewhere
else. Right, that creative friction. A time sink,
really. Yeah, that copy -paste loop. Exactly.
And now, the AI kind of reaches out. It saves
a ton of time. gets rid of that back and forth,
the endless tab switching. But let's be clear.
It only works if you get that connection set
up right first. That's like step zero. It's mandatory.
OK. Walk us through that setup then. Right. So
you have to make this link step by step. You
log into ChatGPT, find settings, then look for
something like apps or maybe apps and connectors.
Then you just pick the app you want, say Canva
or Spotify. That's the finding it part. That's
the finding it. Then you hit connect. Now a new
window pops up and this bit is really important.
You have to log into the other account, like
your Canva account, to prove you own it. And
then you have to explicitly click authorize or
allow when that app asks, you know, is it okay
for ChatGPT to do stuff in your account? That
click seals the deal, grants the access. So that
explicit, allow click. That's the handshake.
Why is understanding that link so critical for
the user? Because that's what grants the access.
It connects a simple chat conversation directly
to, well, actual actions inside that other tool.
OK, let's take a concrete example, Canva. Huge
design tool already this connection. It seems
like it speeds up that painful first draft part
I know I waste like 15 minutes just hunting for
a decent template. Sometimes does this help with
that? Oh, absolutely. It basically replaces hunting
with just telling it what you want It's great
for, say, small business owners needing social
posts fast, or students needing presentation
slides. Anyone who doesn't want to start from
a totally blank page. Like, if you run a bakery,
you need an Instagram post. Don't search, just
prompt it to have the title, fresh from the oven.
What image you need, like a croissant. And really
key the style. Warm and inviting maybe, or clean
and professional. Ah, so you're not just saying
what you want, but how you want it to look right
at the start. Exactly. Or take that resume again.
Uteli AI, make a professional resume in Canva.
Give it all the text, first name, email sections.
Specify clean and modern. The huge win. Your
info is already structured right in the template.
No more fiddling with the dummy text. It just,
you know, removes that initial block. Right.
So specificity is king. Content and style. Okay,
moving from work stuff to maybe more fun stuff,
Spotify, this app connection is really geared
towards personal use, right? Finding new tracks,
matching music to what you're doing. Once it's
connected, the AI looks at your playlists, your
listening habits. And the power here isn't just
making a playlist, it's making the right one,
isn't it? Like, making a workout list is one
thing, but getting the genre and energy right.
It does that really well, yeah. You can ask for
a Spotify playlist for working out. Be specific
about the music type, fast, high energy rock
and hip hop. Maybe ask for about 30 songs. The
AI then makes a new list, calls it gym time or
whatever you specified, right there in your Spotify
account. Puts in tracks like, you know, Linkin
Park or Eminem matching that vibe. That's useful.
But the real magic seems to be in discovery based
on what you already like. Say I have a list called
the chill music and I ask it to make a new chill
list. Same feeling, quiet piano, no words, but,
and this is key, only new artists. Stuff not
already in my history. Yes. This is where it
really shines. See, the normal Spotify algorithm
often just gives you more of what you already
hammer, what everyone listens to. It kind of
keeps you in a bubble. Sips to the familiar.
Right. But the AI can handle these more complex
sort of layered requests, like instrumental tracks
with a quiet, minor key piano feel. It analyzes
the mood of your stuff and then digs through
Spotify's huge library for those lesser -known
artists, maybe Oliver Arnold or Max Richter,
that the main tool just doesn't surface easily.
So you got to be really specific about the feeling,
focus, ambient, no vocals, maybe the length,
and it digs deeper than the usual suggestions.
Yeah, that ability to grasp mood and find those
niche artists outside your main listening loop,
that's what ChatGPT really nails here, something
Spotify itself kind of struggles with. Now, before
we go further into the utility apps, there's
a really important warning about the Figma app
connection. This one's super easy to misunderstand.
Ah, because people hear Figma and think, oh,
website design. Exactly. But the app only works
with FigJam. That's FigJAM, the online whiteboard
tool. It cannot design full websites or complex
apps for you. It just doesn't have the engine
for that. OK, that's crucial. So FigJam is for
brainstorming diagrams, flow charts. that kind
of visual thinking. Right, so you could use it
to map out, say, the steps for an online ordering
process, or ask for a mind map for a new YouTube
channel, and it'll break it down. Tutorials,
reviews, vlogs, maybe put some starter ideas
under each branch. It handles that visual structure
instantly. Okay. Moving to, like, everyday life
apps. Travel seems like a big one. Expedia, booking.
It's like having a super fast travel agent. Pretty
much, yeah. You can match together the usual
stuff location dates with those really fuzzy
subjective things. I need a hotel near my key
beach with a pool and free breakfast, but keep
it under my budget. The AI juggles all those
constraints at once. And Zillow for house hunting
takes that subjective filtering even further.
Zill is a great example of this. You mix the
hard facts, three beds, budget, with those really
personal, kind of intangible needs that are hard
to just tick boxes for on a website, like needing
a big fenced backyard for my dog or specifically
wanting an updated kitchen. The AI is basically
translating your wish list into search filters
based on listing descriptions. And then there's
learning with Coursera. This works in two main
ways. First, just finding courses. Ask for digital
marketing for a beginner that offers a certificate.
Boom, it suggests the Google digital marketing
and e -commerce certificate. And the second way,
simplifying complex ideas. Sometimes textbooks
just make your brain shut down. Right, yeah.
So if you're in a course, maybe week two, and
machine learning just isn't clicking, ask the
AI. You get a simple breakdown. Machine learning
is about gathering data, learning from it, and
using that learning to make smarter guesses.
Cuts right through the academic jargon. Zillow
really seems the best at handling those fuzzy,
subjective filters, like big backyards. Okay,
we have to pivot now to the reality check. These
apps are brand new. They're going to have issues.
First off, misunderstanding your prompts. You
know, prompts drift. Yeah, I mean, I still wrestle
with prompt drift myself sometimes. Getting the
clarity just right is key. Right. You might ask
Canva for something fun and get back something
that looks really corporate, and then you just
have to try again, be clear. Exactly. And then
the big one, the unavoidable trade -off. Privacy,
this whole feature, it's basically a contract.
To use it, you have to be okay with giving ChatGPT
access to your other accounts, your Spotify listening
history, your Canva designs. You're granting
a pretty high level of access. So when I hit
authorize for, say, Canva, what's ChatGPT actually
seeing? Is it scanning all my old designs? Or
just getting permission to make new ones? People
need to understand that exposure level. It really
depends on the specific apps integration, but
generally, yeah, it gets permission to create
things and often it needs to read some info to
do that smartly, like Spotify needs to see your
history to get your taste. Canva needs permission
to save the new design into your account. That's
the new reality. You grant access, you should
be comfortable with it, and you should definitely
know how to go back into settings and revoke
that permission later if you change your mind.
And there are limits too, right? The apps can't
do everything. Canva makes new designs, but it
can't edit your old ones yet. Spotify is great
for new playlists, maybe less so for reorganizing
really complex existing ones. True. Those limitations
are there. But even with those, the future potential
here is just exponential. This is really just
the beginning of what this connected AI action
looks like. And connecting to things like Google
Drive or OneDrive. That seems like where the
real time saving could happen for work. Oh, definitely.
Imagine just saying, find the Q3 sales report
in Drive, pull out the five main takeaways, and
draft an email to my boss with that summary.
That kind of complex, multi -step thing, just
from talking, that's the end game. And the real
game changer sounds like Zapier. Absolutely.
Zapier connects, what, thousands of other apps?
Gmail, Slack, Google Sheets. It's like digital
Lego blocks for workflows. If ChatGPT plugs into
that, you could automate incredibly complex stuff
just by describing it. Hold on. So I could just
use plain English to build an automation involving
four different apps. That feels like a huge leap.
It is. You could tell the AI, OK, set up a Zapier
thing where when I get an email with invoice
in the subject, it automatically saves the attachment
to drive, adds a row to my expense sheet, and
shoots a quick Slack message to finance. Whoa.
I mean, imagine scaling that kind of automation
across thousands of users, thousands of different
little workflows. That's wow. Making complex
integrations accessible. And you mentioned the
SDK. That helps us grow. Right, the SDK software
development kit. Basically, it's the toolbox
that lets other developers build their own connections
into chat GPT. It's how this whole thing scales
up. So the implication is, pretty soon, we won't
just have a handful of apps. We could have hundreds,
maybe thousands, plugging into basically every
service you use, assuming you accept those privacy
risks we talked about. The biggest payoff is
definitely that complex multi -step automation
across all your different tools. So this deep
dive really shows Chad GPT is changing its job
description. It's not just a clever chatbot anymore.
It's becoming an actual actionable personal assistant.
The real innovation seems to be translating our
normal language into these complex actions across
platforms. It's about cutting down friction,
saving time. Definitely. And the best next step
for you listening is probably just to try it.
Connect one of the simpler apps like Spotify
or Canva. Go through those authorization snips
we talked about. Just get a feel for it, because
this really is where things are heading. And
maybe here's a final thought to chew on. If privacy
wasn't an issue at all, like perfectly solved,
zero worries. What's the one app you rely on
most every single day? Maybe your banking, a
food delivery, your main notes app. Which one
would you immediately connect to an AI like this
to start automating things?