What if I told you ChatGPT can now plan and book your next vacation, generate stunning videos from text, follow up on your tasks later, connect to over 6,000 apps, and even remember your preferences. Sounds futuristic, right? But it's all possible right now. In this video, we'll look at the most powerful and new ChatGPT features that just dropped, and you can start using them right now. Let's dive in. ChatGPT has offered image generation for some time, but recent upgrades have taken it to a whole new level. If you haven't tried it lately, you're missing out. Here in ChatGPT, I'll pull in a copy of my photo and then let's type in the prompt. Turn this photo into a professional looking headshot, and let's send that. And here we get two images back, one with my signature red t-shirt and the other one in a suit. Now overall, it looks a little bit like me. I don't think it quite resembles me 100%. Let's try one more change. Down below in the text field, let's see if it could change my hairstyle by giving me a mullet. I've always been curious to see what that looks like. Let's try this. And look at that. Tech tutorials from the 80s. This one is so much fun; you'll have to give it a try. I partnered with Zapier to show you how ChatGPT can now connect with over 6,000 apps. That means you can automate tasks like sending emails, updating spreadsheets, or posting updates to Slack, all using ChatGPT. Here's an example. I'm on zapier.com. You can click on the link down below in the description, and let's say I want ChatGPT to respond whenever I receive new email in Gmail and then save that response as a draft. I have this text field right here. I'll simply type that in and then let's send that. Zapier creates what's called a Zap or an automation. Right down here, I could review all the different steps, but I think this looks good, so let's click on try it. This drops me into a view where I can continue refining my Zap. For example, I could connect my email account. If we click into ChatGPT, here I can configure it. Here I'll feed in the contents of the email message. I could choose the ChatGPT model that I would like to use. I have all the different options here. And if we scroll down, I can even provide instructions to ChatGPT to help with responding to this message. And lastly, it'll then save a draft in my Gmail account. Now I might miss that, so I'd like to get a notification in Discord anytime there's a new draft. That way I know to review the draft. In the bottom left-hand corner, we can click on the Copilot icon and here I'll type in my prompt. Add one more step at the end. Notify me on Discord when there's a new draft email and let's send that. Here, I have a few different options. I'd like to get a direct message. I'll click on that and that adds one more step to this app. This is just one use case. You can also connect ChatGPT to tools like Slack, Google Sheets, Notion, Trello, HubSpot, and thousands more. That way you can streamline your workflows and also save time. To get started, you can go to the link down below in the description, then just describe what you want to automate, include ChatGPT in your prompt, and Zapier will suggest a workflow just like this one, and after a few quick setup steps, you'll be up and running. Number three, with ChatGPT tasks, you can schedule ChatGPT to run at specific times, like having your own AI assistant on autopilot. Here in ChatGPT, to use tasks, in the top left-hand corner, click on the model dropdown. And here we see all the different models. There's now a new option called GPT 4o with scheduled tasks. Ask ChatGPT to follow up later. Let's click on that. And right here we have our text field. We can now prompt the AI and also include items that we'd like to see in the future. As an example, working at the Kevin Cookie Company, I think it would be helpful to see the latest news about cookies, things like product launches, industry trends, legal updates, and trending recipes. And I'd like to get that every single morning. So, let's see if ChatGPT can handle this. If we scroll up the page now, I can see a sample of what this roundup will look like every single morning. There I have my product launches, industry trends, legal updates, trending recipes. This looks really good. Now right here it says, would you like to receive this cookie news roundup every morning? Yes, I would. Let's type in yes, and let's send that. Right up above, I can see the new task summarize cookie news. I could click on this and here I see all the details. I see the name, the instructions, and also the schedule for when this should run. To be able to see all of your different tasks, in the top right-hand corner, click on your profile picture, and here there's now a new option for tasks. Let's click on this. Right here, I can see all of my different scheduled tasks. You could use this for all sorts of different things. One of my personal favorites, you could remind yourself about your mom's birthday and that way you could have it generate a thoughtful message that you could send to her. Hey, it's better than sending nothing. ChatGPT will send you a reminder on the desktop, and if you also have the mobile app, you'll also get a notification there. At number four, you can set up your very own custom GPT. It's a personalized version of ChatGPT that you can build to act like your own AI assistant, specializing in specific tasks, tones, or even knowledge areas. To build your very own custom GPT, over on the left-hand side navigation, you'll see an option for explore GPTs. Let's click here. Here we could see some examples. If I scroll down just a little bit, we could see some of the trending GPTs. Here we have one called scholar GPT and this has been trained on peer reviewed content. That's the knowledge base of this GPT. If we go down a little bit more, here we have one that specializes in website creation, logo creation. If we go down a little bit more, here we have one called the data analyst and this specializes in looking at your data and coming back with insights. And we have all sorts of other examples. If you would like to make your own, in the top right-hand corner, let's click on the create button. There are two different ways that you could set up your custom GPT. You could use a chat interface to define how it should work or over here we could click into configure. You could assign an image, you could give it a name, a description, and also specific instructions. You could also type in your different conversation starters. Now this gives it a lot of power. You could also upload different documents to contribute to the knowledge that this GPT uses to respond to questions. So, you could upload things like PDFs or FAQs or maybe a product manual and then you could ask questions specific to those materials. Right down below you could also turn on or off different capabilities. Should your GPT be able to search the web? Should it have access to the canvas, image generation, and you also have the code interpreter and data analysis. Down at the bottom and this is one of the most powerful aspects, you could also create a new action. This is where you can connect your GPT to different APIs. So as an example, let's say you have database and you would like it to leverage information from that database or even write to the database. You can do all of that. To learn more about custom GPTs check out the video down below in the description. Number five is projects. Let's say you're working on something bigger like a report, a coding project, or lesson planning. Wouldn't it be nice if ChatGPT could help you stay organized? Well now it can. ChatGPT projects is your new workspace inside ChatGPT where you can keep everything in one place. All the files, the chats, the instructions, and the tasks. To add a new project in ChatGPT, over on the left-hand side navigation, you'll see a new section titled projects and to the right of that we have a plus icon. Let's click on this. This opens up a prompt where we can give the project a name. Let's call this the spring cookie launch and then let's create the project. Now we're in a new project and we can now have conversations related to this project. As an example, we're brainstorming some cookie names as part of this launch. I'll type in my prompt and let's send that. Over on the left-hand side, I can now see that this conversation is part of this project. Right over here, I can click back into the top level project and here I see that existing conversation. Let's ask another question. I'd like to create an Instagram caption for the new lemon blossom cookie. Let's send this too. The caption looks solid. To get back to the project, right up on top, let's click into the spring cookie launch and here I see all of my different conversations. We can also add instructions for how this GPT should respond. I'll click on this and right here let's provide a little bit of context. Then let's click on save. It'll now use those instructions anytime it responds to one of these conversations and you could also add different files to this project and it'll reference those different files when it's responding to your questions. The bottom line is if you're working on something that takes more than one session, ChatGPT projects is a total game changer. If you'd like to learn more about projects check out the video down below in the description. At number six, we have voice conversations. Whether you're on the web or using the mobile app you can now talk to ChatGPT using voice. It talks back naturally and expressively. It's like having a real conversation with an AI buddy anytime and anywhere. To use voice mode, in the bottom right-hand corner of the text field, let's click on this icon. How are you doing? Hey I'm doing great thanks for asking how about you? Oh, I'm also doing fantastic. That's awesome to hear anything exciting going on today? Have you ever had a Kevin Cookie Company cookie? Not yet they sound delicious though. Have you tried them? Oh, they are the best. Once you finish using voice mode, you'll get a transcript of the entire conversation within the chat view. Next up Sora video generation. OpenAI Sora is now available to ChatGPT plus and pro users in the United States allowing you to generate realistic videos from simple text prompts. On Sora, you can see all sorts of different example images and also videos that other users have pulled together. Down at the very bottom, we have a prompt field. Here you can describe a video or you can also describe an image that you would like to create. Over here you also have a variety of different settings. I'll type in a futuristic city at sunset with flying cars. Right over here, we can now send that through. And check this out! Here we can preview what Sora came up with. OpenAI plans to expand access to more regions soon so stay tuned for updates. ChatGPT operator is one of the most ambitious new features yet. It's like giving GPT its own mouse, keyboard, and eyes and watching it navigate the web just like a human would. Operator can do things like search for deals on laptops, book trains, look up contact info, or even plan and attempt to book a full vacation all on real websites. It doesn't just respond, clicks, scrolls, filters, searches results, and fills in forms. Need a MacBook under $700? It'll find it. Want to collect contact info for college coaches? It'll scrape the web and even fill in a spreadsheet all for you. Now operator is still a research preview and there are plenty of bugs. It's only available in the US and requires a $200 per month pro plan. So, unless you're extremely curious it might be worth waiting but the potential is massive. It's a glimpse into the future of virtual assistants that actually get things done. To learn more about operator, check out the video in the description. This brings us to number nine, keyboard shortcuts. Press control together with forward slash and this opens up all the different available keyboard shortcut keys. The last feature today, ChatGPT has memory. ChatGPT can now remember key details about you across conversations. It now has memory and it can reference any of your previous conversations. Let's take an example here. In the text field, I'll type in what do you know about me and let's see what comes back. And look at this. It knows a lot about me. Right over here, it knows my name. It knows that I run a YouTube channel focused on tech tutorials. I used to be a product manager at Microsoft and now I work as a full-time content creator and it has all sorts of different information about me. Let's try another one. Right here in the text field, let's say what are some recent YouTube videos that I worked on. Right up above I could see a list of different videos where I had a conversation with ChatGPT about these different videos. Now this is really neat. Any conversation that you've ever had with ChatGPT you can now reference back to that conversation because it has a memory of those. To manage all of your memories, in the top right-hand corner, click on your profile picture and then go down to settings. Over on the left-hand side, click on personalization and right here you could turn off saved memories. Now with saved memories it only has a specific set of memories and down below this is the new feature where it can now reference your entire chat history. You could either turn that on or off. Now I think it's valuable to turn it on so here I have it toggled to the on position. Just kidding, we have a bonus. Ever wished you could just upload a file and have ChatGPT do the hard work for you? Good news you can. ChatGPT now supports file uploads so you can drop in PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, and even images and it can read, summarize, and answer questions about them in just seconds. As a YouTube creator, I end up making thumbnails for all of my different videos but I don't always know which one will perform the best. Luckily, I could upload content into ChatGPT and then I could ask it for feedback. So right over here let's say which thumbnail do you think will perform the best and I could take three different thumbnails and let's upload those and let's see what it thinks. And here I get some feedback on which thumbnail it likes the most. Here it goes through and it analyzes the different images and here believes that thumbnail number two looks the best of all. You could use this for all sorts of different content. In my case I uploaded images but you could also upload PDFs or documents or even spreadsheets and you could have ChatGPT give you feedback on all that different type of content. So which feature did you like the most? Let me know in the comments. Please consider subscribing and I’ll see you in the next video.