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OpenAI’s new GPT Agents are a big deal for school and everything else.

To signify their ascendance into the heart of the conversation around AI, OpenAI had their first-ever Developer Conference (“DevDay”) this week. Just like any other big tech company, the conference also served as a time point to push out a bunch of updates to GPT and the ChatGPT platform.

I don’t really want to make this post any more free publicity for the company than it will already be, so I’ll get right to the point. Along with a bunch of other items, paying subscribers can not interact with and build GPTs, which are the company’s term for AI Agents that use the GPT model in specialized use-cases. Even more interesting (to me at least) is that there is no programming required to create a GPT Agent. All the user has to do is write a series of natural language instructions, and GPT does the rest. What’s more, when the creator wants to update their GPT Agent, it can tell a GPT Builder Agent what to change, and the Builder will take care of changing the instructions for the creator.

As is always the case with technology, seeing is better than reading. So I made this short-ish video to show how I used the new GPT creator feature to build a Tutor GPT (link may or may not work depending on rollout status of this feature) that runs a…