It seems there’s very little that ChatGPT cannot do.
The artificial intelligence platform which has taken the world by storm has helped people write work reports, create diet plans and even apply for jobs.
But better still, there is now a way you can integrate the bot into any iPhone app — and here’s how.
The shortcut, which is free to everyone as long as they have set up an OpenAI pay-as-you-go billing plan, supports conversational mode so you can use ChatGPT just as you would on a computer.
It essentially lets you ask ChatGPT questions from an input box on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with answers then returned by ChatGPT and displayed in an alert on your device.
New trick: You can now integrate ChatGPT into any iPhone app by using a new shortcut. This supports conversational mode so you can use ChatGPT just as you would on a computer
‘You can ask whatever you want, wait a couple of seconds, and get a response back from the assistant. S-GPT only supports text, and there are no limits in terms of question length,’ said developer Federico Viticci, who explained why he chose to create the shortcut.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t just because he needed help writing poems on his phone.
Viticci said he wanted to be able to give Apple users the same access to ChatGPT as those with Windows devices.
The AI bot has a tie-up with Microsoft and has been rolled out in a new version of the tech giant’s Bing search engine.
This agreement means those with iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS will likely always be unable to access ChatGPT in the same way, without Viticci’s S-GPT (which stands for Shortcuts-GPT).
He said he wanted to build a bridge between Apple and ChatGPT, much like Microsoft has.
‘I know that this is a lofty goal, and there’s only so much I can do with Shortcuts, but I look at how Microsoft is and I’m jealous that the same isn’t true on Apple’s platforms (and likely will never be),’ Viticci added.
His idea makes use of Open AI’s developer API, which comes at a small cost and is why anyone wanting to use the hack must have access to the pay-as-you-go billing.
It can be used with either the existing ChatGPT 3.5 model, or ChatGPT 4 if a user has access to it.
The shortcut allows people to ask questions and follow-up responses in the same ‘session’, much like on a computer, while it also retains previous conversations and lets a user look at each conversation they’ve had as a single transcript.
‘I genuinely think that S-GPT is, from a technical perspective, my best and most advanced work to date,’ Viticci said.
‘The ability to hold a back-and-forth conversation brings some terrific advantages over using, say, Siri for certain tasks.
‘Unlike other shortcuts for ChatGPT, your conversations are only ever sent to the OpenAI API: by default, the shortcut does keep a log or cache of your chats unless you manually ask it to export a transcript.’
The shortcut essentially lets you ask ChatGPT questions from an input box on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with answers then returned by ChatGPT and displayed in an alert on your device
He added: ‘S-GPT was designed to provide users with concise and clear answers that can be read in just a few seconds.
‘I did this because S-GPT can be used both as a shortcut launched from the Shortcuts app, an icon on the Home Screen, or a widget, or as a shortcut running inside Siri.’
One example of how S-GPT can be used is to make a playlist with certain artists.
A user just has to give it a command, which is interpeted by ChatGPT and then passed back to S-GPT for the playlist to be named.
Once this is done, the playlist will appear in the Apple Music App.
FIVE THINGS CHATGPT CAN’T DO
MailOnline looks at five functions that ChatGPT is unable to perform, from playing the popular online game Wordle to remembering its own name.
It also cannot give advice on prescription medicines or write accurate news articles — although some supporters say it is only amount of time until it can do the latter.
Limitations: ChatGPT has proved enormously popular since its launch at the end of last year. But what can’t the bot do? MailOnline looks at five functions that ChatGPT is unable to perform
