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On one hand you are excited for amazing new features that can help us make our products even more powerful, but on the other hand OpenAI can release competing features that could make you redundant.\n\nAfter OpenAI released GPTs, we had a number of people reach out and ask...\n\n>\"Oh no, have OpenAI just killed Chat Thing?\". \n\nWell thankfully the dust has settled now, and after having some time to really dig into GPTs and their capabilities we were relieved to realise for most professional use cases there are still plenty of reason to use a service like Chat Thing over GPTs. \n\n## OpenAI GPTs compared to Chat Thing\n\nAt first glance it might seem like OpenAI GPTs and Chat Thing provide very similar functionality, and while GPTs do a great job of making custom AI chat bots more accessible to everyone, in a lot of areas they are severely lacking features hampering their overall usefulness. \n\nIn most cases, if you want to integrate AI chat bots into your business you are still probably better off using a service like Chat Thing. Of course we would say that, but we will let you make up your own mind after reading the points below.\n\n### Data Sources\n\nOpenAI GPTs allow you to add \"knowledge\" to your bot by uploading up to 10 files. There are also size limits on these files, and you get charged $0.20 per day per gigabyte per bot! This is a great way of adding data to basic bots, but the limitations make it very impractical for anything more complicated.\n\n![Chat Thing's data sources](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701161616\u002Fdatasources_5a20d55635.png)\n\nChat Thing's data sources are leaps and bounds ahead of GPTs knowledge files in many ways:\n\n- Automatically connect to 8+ different types of data source, not just files\n- Automatically refresh data source content to keep it up to date\n- No limits on the number of documents in a data source\n- Advanced functionality such as web crawling\n\n### Bots you can use anywhere\n\nWhen you create a GPT its forever imprisoned within the ChatGPT interface. That might be a bit dramatic, but it does make GPTs a lot less useful. Not only that but you can only use GPTs if you are a $20 a month ChatGPT plus subscriber, so this hugely limits who can use your bot if you share it publicly. \n\nWith Chat Thing if you share your bot via a URL anyone can use it regardless of whether they are a ChatGPT or Chat Thing subscriber. In addition to that, you can integrate your bot over many different channels such as Slack, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp all in a few clicks. That's not possible with GPTs at the moment.\n\nWith Chat Thing you can even add an customisable embeddable widget to your site meaning you can use Chat Thing as a support agent helping to answer customer queries.\n\n![Chat Thing embeddable widget](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701164565\u002Fwidget_fc9f4e0af7.png)\n\nIn summary here's the way Chat Thing makes your bots more shareable:\n\n- 6+ channels, interact with your bot via the web, Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp and API.\n- Shareable bot URLs that are useable by everyone, not just ChatGPT subscribers\n- Embeddable and customisable chat widgets\n- Password protect bots\n\n### Stopping hallucinations\n\nOne of the biggest issues with large language models such as GPT is their tendency to hallucinate and make up responses and data. This can be very detrimental to the usefulness of AI bots as depending on your use case the accuracy of responses might be very important. You don't want your support bot making things up when a customer has a problem, that will only anger them more!\n\nWith OpenAI GPTs, the only way to fight against hallucinations is via prompt engineering. You can write something along the lines of \"Only answer questions using the content in the provided documents. If the answer isn't there say 'I do not know'\". This technique works some of the time, but especially as the chat history gets longer the bots tend to stop paying as much attention to the prompt and can still hallucinate.\n\nIn Chat Thing you can use prompt engineering to prevent against hallucinations just like you can with GPTs, but we have also gone further and developed something we call response guards. Response guards basically get the bot to double check its responses before errors before sending them back to the user. This massively improves the reliability of the bot in giving back accurate information.\n\n![A screen shot of the response guard interface](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701343041\u002Fresponse_guard_79b34ad6cd.png)\n\n### Conversation Logs\n\nWith OpenAI GPTs you have no way of seeing the conversations users have with your bot. Whilst this is good for privacy, it does limit GPTs for certain use cases. If you want to use them for customer support, lead generation, or many other uses having visibility of conversations will be essential. \n\nChat Thing provides you with full searchable conversation history so you can see how users are interacting with your bot. In addition to that user's can mark responses as positive or negative so you can see where your bot is lacking and make improvements in your data sources, or prompts etc. \n\nNot only that, but you can export all your bot's conversations as a CSV if you need to work with the data in other tools, and we are working more advanced features, such as bot usage statistics and graphs. None of which is available in GPTs.\n\n![A screen shot of the Chat Thing conversations interface](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701344217\u002Fconversations_efd64fa3ff.png)\n\n![A screenshot of the new bot statistics screen](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701344561\u002Fbot_statistics_7896dc59d4.png)\n\n### Personal Support\n\nAlthough getting started with creating an AI bot using GPTs or Chat Thing is quick and easy, tuning them to work exaclty how you want can be quite an art. There are many settings to tweak. Should I set a custom prompt? How do I change the tone? How do I stop hallucinations? Whats the best way to stop hallucinations. The list goes on!\n\nWith OpenAI GPTs you are completely on your own trying to figure out these issues, but with Chat Thing we have dedicated support with knowledge of helping people make thousands of bots ready to help whenever you need it. \n\nDon't just take our word for it, we get messages like the one below in our Discord community all the time. \n\n[![A message praising Chat Thing and our amazing support in Discord](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1701345105\u002Fdiscord_feedback_bcea77274b.png)](https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.com\u002Fchannels\u002F1083665149627469834\u002F1083665149627469837\u002F1173961315551821845)\n\nWe have 850 members in [our Discord](https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.com\u002Finvite\u002FDGCCR34Fsj) where you can get supports, or if email is more your style you can always email us there too and we will be happy to help. You won't get this kind of service setting up your GPTs from OpenAI.\n\n### Adaptability and new features\n\nAt Chat Thing we have the advantage of being a small nimble team that can adapt to customer requests and ideas at the click of your fingers. We have sooooo much in the pipeline we are really exited about, and we believe we can innovate at a faster pace than larger companies. \n\nWe are on the cusp of releasing a new and improved bot dashboard, and then shortly after that we will be releasing the first version of functions giving your bots powers they have never had before. \n\nOur long term vision for Chat Thing is to build a product that provides users with the easiest and most powerful way to integrate AI assistants into your websites and products. 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This one's a bit different.. it's about the stuff happening quietly in the background that you'll never actually see. Stick with me though, because it matters more than you'd think.\n\nThis month we rebuilt the engine room of Chat Thing. Not the bit you log into, but the part doing all the heavy lifting behind the scenes.. crawling your website, syncing your content from Notion, Google Drive and the rest, generating your analytics, sending your emails, running your agents' tasks. All of that runs on a separate system, and we tore it down and rebuilt it from scratch.\n\nI know, \"we rebuilt some backend plumbing\" isn't exactly a thrilling headline! But here's what it actually means for you.\n\n## Faster, in the way that counts\n\nThe honest truth is that the old system was built on different foundations to the rest of Chat Thing. It worked fine, but it meant our team had to juggle two completely different ways of doing things every time we wanted to improve anything back there.\n\nNow it all speaks the same language. Which means **we can ship improvements to crawling, syncing and analytics far quicker than before**. When you're waiting on us to make something better, that speed is the difference between \"next week\" and \"next month\".\n\n## Safer with your data\n\nThis is the one I care most about, and it's worth a minute of your time.\n\nEvery modern app is built on top of hundreds of little bits of code written by other people. It's how software works, nobody builds everything from scratch. But every one of those bits is something you're trusting, and occasionally one of them gets tampered with by someone with bad intentions. It's called a supply chain attack, and it's one of the biggest security risks going right now.\n\nSo while we were in there, we did two things. We **cut the amount of third party code this system relies on by nearly 40%** (fewer moving parts, fewer things that can go wrong). And we turned on a much stricter set of rules for the code we do use.. including a deliberate cooling off period so we never automatically pull in brand new code before the wider security community has had a chance to vet it.\n\nIn plain English: there are now fewer doors, and the ones that remain have much better locks. Your data, and your customers' data, sits behind them.\n\n## More reliable, full stop\n\nFewer moving parts means fewer things that can break at 2am. We also did the whole switch over carefully, running the old and new systems side by side and checking they behaved identically before flipping the switch, with a one button rollback the whole time. No drama, no downtime, nothing for you to do.\n\nAnyway! Your agents are crawling, syncing and replying exactly as they were before. Nothing's changed on your end. 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They ask their question. Your agent answers. They leave.\n\nYou never find out who they were. They might have been your ideal customer. They might have been ready to buy. You will never know, because nothing asked.\n\nThat changes today.\n\n![The visitor-facing pre-chat form rendered on a bot page, with intro copy above the fields](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1777051094\u002Fdocs\u002Fprechat-form-visitor.png)\n\n### Meet your visitors before the first message\n\nLead Capture shows a short form to visitors before the chat opens. They fill in their name and email, or whatever your team actually needs to know, and then the conversation starts.\n\nBy the time they send their first message, you already know who they are.\n\n{% youtube id=\"ygNJiEvskZ4\" \u002F%}\n\n### Your team knows who called\n\nEvery form submission is saved to the conversation. 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And when they do it, the whole conversation that follows is warmer, more personal, and easier to follow up on.\n\n### Where this makes the biggest difference\n\nIf you sell anything with a sales process, demos, pricing questions, onboarding, Lead Capture means your team goes into every follow-up with context instead of a cold email address.\n\nIf you run a B2B site, knowing the company before the chat starts is the difference between a useful conversation and a polite one.\n\nIf you do lead generation, this replaces the popup form entirely. Same details. Better experience. And the visitor gets their questions answered on the way in.\n\n### The honest caveat\n\nLead Capture is on the web channel for now. It does not work on WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord, those channels do not have a natural place for a form before the conversation starts. 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Also read to the end if you want to see another sneak preview of our most anticipated feature yet! First lets not break tradition…\n\n**What do you call a robot who loves to take naps?** Rust in peace!\n\nHere's a roundup of the key developments since our last update:\n\n### 🌍 Global Connection: Localisation\n\nSay hello in multiple languages! You can now change your bot's UI language. Our global expansion begins with English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.\n\n{% twitter url=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fpixelhopio\u002Fstatus\u002F1695087594101469190\" \u002F%}\n\n### 🤖 Your Bot, Your Brand: Chat Icon Customisation\n\nPersonalize your chat UI by uploading custom icons that resonate with your brand's identity.\n\n### 🌐 Source It Right: Response Sources\n\nTrack it back! Your bot now reveals the sources behind its responses, including web links for web data-generated answers. Transparency, at your service!\n\n### 📚 Documentation Redefined: Dazzling Docs\n\nNo more hunting for knowledge – our documentation is now beautifully organized on our website. Seamlessly navigate and get your answers without a treasure hunt.\n\n### 🌞🌚 Light or Dark: Your Choice\n\nDay or night, choose your battle mode! Introducing Light and Dark themes to elevate your Chat Thing journey.\n\n### ⚡ Full-Throttle Crawler: Turbo-Charged\n\nHold tight! Our crawler's speed now boasts a concurrency of 3. Experience lightning-fast data gathering like never before.\n\n###  📰 RSS Revolution Unleashed\n\nExperience the evolved RSS feed – now equipped to handle items sans links, a no-link-following option, and CSS selector magic. Feeding your bot just got a power boost!\n\n### 📱 Mobile Marvel: Interface Enhancements\n\nNavigate with ease! We've revamped our chat interface for mobile, optimizing space and bringing example questions inline.\n\n### 🔧 Under-the-Hood Excellence\n\nWe've worked the magic behind the scenes – bug fixes, performance boosts, and enhancements aplenty for a smoother experience.\n\n### Brace Yourself for Functions!\n\nNow, for the pièce de résistance – functions are on the horizon! Our most awaited update yet will transform your bot from answering questions to completing tasks in the real world. Imagine bots capturing leads, sending emails, processing Stripe refunds – the possibilities are limitless. This opens doors to a world of new use-cases.\n\nReady to see the magic in action? Check out two quick demos, both built in minutes using Chat Thing's no-code UI. (Note: The Stripe demo requires basic knowledge of the Stripe API, but we're simplifying this before launch!)\n\nHere’s the first, a Stripe bot that can search for customers, list their payments, and make refunds!\n\nHere’s the second, a marketing bot that can browse the web, analyse a website and generate marketing campaign ideas!\n\nWe're buzzing with excitement about functions, and we can't wait to hear your ideas too!\n\nGot questions? We've got answers! Our support wizards are standing by to assist you.\n\nStay amazing and keep those conversations flowing!\n\nFrom The Chat Thing Team","We've added another boatload of features, and we give a sneaky peak of our most anticipated feature, functions!","changelog","functions-sneak-peak-chat-thing-updates","2023-08-25T14:42:01.813Z","2023-08-29T13:12:15.065Z","2023-08-25T18:41:09.847Z","h5exsimwqt9oqzp60y71mxhs",{"id":386,"Title":400,"Content":401,"Description":402,"Category":393,"slug":403,"createdAt":404,"updatedAt":405,"publishedAt":406,"readTime":15,"documentId":407},"More tokens for everyone","Just a quick one from us to let you know about a few changes we released last week that you probably want to hear about.\n\nUnderlying model prices are changing all the time (usually getting cheaper) and we are still committed to passing these savings on to you so you get the best value out of Chat Thing possible.\n\nWe've made two changes that are going to positively effect your bots.\n\n## More message tokens for all plans\n\nFirst, we've significantly boosted the number of message tokens on available on each plan! This is due our default model (gpt-3.5-turbo-0125) pricing being massively reduced by OpenAI.\n\n**For most plans your message tokens will have almost doubled over night!**\n\n![Xnapper-2024-03-20-12.36.27.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1710942287\u002FXnapper_2024_03_20_12_36_27_ca1e47a145.png)\n\n## Message tokens that go further\n\nThe second change we have made relates to how we calculate the tokens used while chatting to your bots.\n\nWe now count input and output tokens separately so they can be charged at different rates.\n\nMany model providers charge different amounts for input tokens and output tokens.\n\nInput tokens are often cheaper and include the prompt, the message, and anything else that is sent to the model when you chat with a bot. Output tokens are often more expensive and consist of the responses generated by your bots.\n\nPreviously, we treated all the tokens used by your bot the same, but now we have introduced multipliers for input and output tokens so we can adjust the number of message tokens they use to better reflect the underlying models.\n\nIn general you will use way more input tokens than output tokens, because every time you send a message the input tokens are made up from your bot prompt and entire chat history, so this new change should mean that on the whole your message tokens go further.\n\nWe have added a section to our docs explaining this change, include a table with each of the model's input and output modifier values.\n\n[https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhat-are-message-tokens](https:\u002F\u002Fchatthing.ai\u002Fdocs\u002Fwhat-are-message-tokens)\n\n![Xnapper-2024-03-20-12.37.12.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1710942287\u002FXnapper_2024_03_20_12_37_12_42580edec6.png)\n\n## AI bots are becoming more affordable every day\n\nOur biggest cancelation reason is its \"too expensive\" and to be honest, until recently it was hard to disagree, especially if you need the more expensive models.\n\nLuckily over the past 6 months we have been able to reduce the cost of our models multiple times and will continue to do so whenever the underlying cost changes.\n\nAt the current rate of price reductions AI bots will soon be extremely affordable for everyone and even more use-cases!\n","Underlying model prices are changing all the time (usually getting cheaper) and we are still committed to passing these savings on to you so you get the best value out of Chat Thing possible.","more-tokens-for-everyone","2024-03-20T13:35:57.646Z","2024-03-20T14:26:57.975Z","2024-03-20T13:47:42.984Z","sphnm3aym2aihdt4pmrfwgn9"]