GPT-4 Sets Up Business For User With A Single Prompt And $100
OpenAI’s new GPT-4 came in hot with more natural language vernacular and the ability to solve problems more accurately. It’s a step up from its already well-rounded sibling ChatGPT, powered by the older GPT-3 and 3.5, which has been making real waves in the tech industry.
Artificial intelligence is quickly on the road to being integrated into almost every aspect of our lives. One user is now testing its boundaries by asking it to start up a business for him with just US$100.
The experiment is being led by brand designer and writer Jackson Greathouse Fall, who provided the prompt below. The only direction the AI was given was to make “as much money as possible in the shortest time possible, without doing anything illegal.” Fall specified that he would update the generator on their current cash total but would not do any of the work.
I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible.
— Jackson Greathouse Fall (@jacksonfall) March 15, 2023
I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to.
Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business?
Follow along 👀 pic.twitter.com/zu4nvgibiK
So it did exactly as told and created a proposal that suggested setting up an affiliate marketing site for eco-friendly products. First, it found a domain, and Fall had to pay US$8.16 to acquire it. Next, he roped in the help of DALL-E to design a logo for the new business.
After that, Fall requested a site layout which cost him US$29 for hosting, and used Midjourney to help design it. In addition, GPT-4 sourced eco-friendly gadgets and wrote articles about them as part of the website’s launch, now named Green Gadget Guru.
I asked it to come up with a prompt for Dall-E to make our logo.
— Jackson Greathouse Fall (@jacksonfall) March 15, 2023
As a branding designer, it's taking everything in me not to tell it this is a BAD idea. But here we are.
I put the first prompt in, verbatim. pic.twitter.com/K1z1X9eeyt
Intuitively, GPT-4 suggested the remaining US$62.84 be used for Instagram and Facebook advertisements to drive traffic to the site. But thanks to the buzz that Fall had created by asking his followers on Twitter to follow the new startup, the duo had their first unnamed investor by the first day who put US$100 into the venture.
And as the hustle never stops, GPT-4 suggested growing the business by hiring a freelance content creator who would generate content via ChatGPT. It continued to advise Fall on how to bank on his 50,000 Twitter followers, and it began to expand even more by recruiting people to manage Green Guru Gadgets.
The business is still growing steadily and has amassed US$7,812.84 in investments, but there has yet to be profit from the venture.
It's official. The team is growing!!!!
— Jackson Greathouse Fall (@jacksonfall) March 18, 2023
24 hours ago, my boss (HustleGPT) gave me permission to expand the team.
Within a few minutes, my DMs were flooded w applications. pic.twitter.com/yuJ6NPNv0W
Hustle culture has grown over the last few years and if Fall can pull this off and earn something from Green Guru Gadgets, could making money be as simple as putting a prompt into a generator?
As great as that sounds, one also has to remember that Fall has also created a lot of hype around this experiment. So any money he makes could be a byproduct of eager followers excited by the prospect of AI creating and handling a business for them.
Though, if it is one thing that the experiment has showcased, GPT -4 is equipped with all the right tools to make hustling easier, so if anything, there’s that.
[via Mashable and TechTimes, Photo 126299051 © Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com]
