Genspark AI Tutorial – Meet the AI Super Agent

ChatGPT and Claude are game-changing tools, but  boy oh boy have they got limitations, because most   people just use them as fancy text generators.  Genspark on the other hand isn't just another   chatbot, it goes beyond text to take action. What  do I mean by that?

Well, you'll just have to see,   because in this video I'll show you four ways that  it outshines ChatGPT, and that might make it your   next AI assistant. Now I'm David, I've partnered  with Kevin to bring you more great tutorials like   this one. Let's go.

Start by going to Genspark. ai.  You'll arrive on the homepage with the Genspark   Super Agent, and of course the all-powerful prompt  box like you'd see with ChatGPT and any other   LLM.

But one thing that's different is down below  you'll see a ton of different agent tools. We'll   cover a few of them today. Now to actually submit  a prompt you do need to sign in.

I'm already   signed in, so let me try a question that used  to confuse AI models. Then I'll press the enter   key to submit. Now here prompts are handled  differently from other AI chatbots.

Instead   of just calling a large language model for the  answer, you're calling the Genspark Super Agent   to figure out exactly what you want. Sometimes  it's fast like it was here, and sometimes it does   take a little longer for simple questions. Here  you see it went to its deep research tool to get   this question right.

Let's see how this works with  a more complex prompt. I'm going to ask, is it a   good time to get into the donut shop business?  Now when I submit this one, you'll notice in the   response that the Super Agent uses different  tools.

Other LLMs do this too, but the Super   Agent is more explicit. For example, you see here  it's searching for specific articles, and now it's   reading them so it can put all this information  together to give us an answer. Once it's finished,   it puts together a little report for us.

Now this  report is generic because we didn't provide any   information about us, but it answers the question.  Before we get too far, let's talk about pricing.   See, it's all based on credits.

What are credits?  What's like fuel for your agent? Each action   the agent takes uses credits, and you can use  the pricing page to estimate how many credits   each action takes.

Keep in mind that the free  plan gives you 200 credits a day. That gives   you enough for one search, which is pretty much  useless in my opinion. So everything I show today   is on the plus plan.

ChatGPT can look things up  for you online, but if you need to call someone,   you're out of luck. Genspark on the other hand  can do it for you. Here's how it works.

First,   move your mouse over the new button in the  left sidebar. Then go down to the bottom and   click on call for me. First, select the type of  call you'd like to make.

Business calls require   a business name. The phone number then comes from  the Google Maps listing for that business. But you   can also make personal calls.

Just provide your  contact's name and their phone number. Let's go   for a real business scenario. I want to find out  if an outdoor store nearby has a specific item   in stock.

So I just tried to search for it on  Google Maps, and this looks like the business,   so I'll select the listing. Now for purpose, I'm  going to keep it very simple. Check if they have   this item in stock.

Then you can click place call,  go do something else, and in a few minutes you'll   see the result. Here we are on the result page.  First off, you see it's got the original request   up top.

Then it lets you into its thinking process  before it makes the call. Pause the video and read   this if you're interested. Otherwise, we're going  to move on to the transcript and also the answer.  

Here are some of my observations. First, it takes  some time for it to understand it's talking to an   automated menu. Press zero now to speak to a sales  specialist.

Hello. Our regular store hours are   Monday through Saturday. Once it realized it was  on an automated menu, it stayed on the line until   a human picked up the phone.

How can I help you?  Hello, this is Sophia, an AI assistant for David.   Could you please let me know if the Osprey men's  far point 40 is available.

One moment. What was   the Osprey men's far point? Yes.

Finally, you'll  notice cases where the AI and humans interrupt   each other. You can see from the timestamps here  that sometimes it gets a little bit confused   and that can make it awkward for the person on  the other end of the line. We have no worries.  

Thanks for that. I don't know when we would get  restocked. I would suggest that you buy online   pickup in store.

Regardless, it wasn't a terrible  conversation and it figured out more than we asked   for, specifically pointing out that they had one  available in gray and that they didn't know when   the next restock would occur. That's just one  place where Genspark outclasses its competition.   Here's another where ChatGPT falls short, building  slide decks.

Its designs are getting better,   but it still creates this wall of text on each  slide. So let's see how Genspark matches up. Move   your mouse over to the new icon in the side  pane.

This time click on AI Slides. Already,   I have a better experience because I can choose  from a bunch of pre-built templates. I can also   save my slide decks as custom templates, which  I can reuse later by clicking on my templates.  

Now I am the owner of David's Donut Den and  I want to create a presentation to roll out a   new donut flavor to the rest of my company. I've  come up with this prompt to describe what we're   launching, where we're launching it, and a little  marketing campaign to promote it along the way.   Notice I'm not telling it the number of slides I  want or the structure of those slides.

This prompt   is more ad hoc. I want to see what it creates  and then make my edits from there. It takes a   few minutes to complete.

Now that it's done, let's  go through the slides together. We start off with   a polished title slide. We've got a pretty  chic looking executive summary too.

In fact,   the rest of these slides look pretty compelling.  There's no big issues with formatting or picture   placement and the design actually looks pretty  good. You can even click on the thinking button   on each slide to see what went into its creation. 

Now let's say there's a slide you want to change.   You've got two options to edit it. Advanced Edit  is the edit most of us are used to.

This is a drag   and drop interface on each slide. Now this isn't a  PowerPoint replacement. It definitely doesn't have   as many features and one of the big ones that's  missing is snapping elements to align with each   other.

I find it's better to use Advanced Edit  for making changes to text. Now let's check out   the other type of edit called AI edits. The last  time I tested it, it was quite good.

So let's see   if this time we get a repeat performance. So  here's my request. Can you change this slide   to a different template that's warmer and has the  attached picture on the opening slide?

I'm going   to go ahead and attach a picture and then click  the enter button. Well I jinxed it because it only   got it half right. See the template is definitely  warmer but it struggled trying to upload the image   that I provided.

Instead it found this other  donut shop image and made it the background.   That's not good but there is one more thing we  can try in just a second. Before we go there, one   thing that I find cool about Genspark is that you  can fact check content.

There's a lot of data on   this market opportunity slide and I want to make  sure that it's accurate. So I can click fact check   content on this slide. That auto creates a prompt  to fact check slide three.

I can hit enter just   like before and it takes about a minute to get the  response. The fact check is broken up into four   sections. The first has sources for the accurate  data.

The second contains content that don't have   verified sources. The third attempts to find  replacement data for that problematic content.   And finally you'll get a recommendation of next  steps including a suggestion to update the slide   for you.

We won't make this change now. Although  I appreciate this feature it is a bit strange   you have to buy credits to create these slides  and then buy more credits to fix them. Now for   most of you guys if you create slides here you're  going to want to edit them inside of PowerPoint.  

This is also the way you can fix slides when AI  edit doesn't work. The good news is you can do   this by clicking the view and export button in  the top right. Keep in mind you can play this   presentation directly in the browser but to move  forward with the export click export.

I'll select   the PowerPoint button and let's see what it looks  like. And here it is. Unfortunately you'll notice   a few words are misspelled.

Some fonts cause this.  It's not exactly clear which because the rest of   the presentation looks just fine. Well except for  the fact that some of these slides extend past the   slide view.

Now if this happens to you I recommend  modifying it by hand. I tried to fix it with the   AI edit but this was about the best I could do.  Rolling out these donuts is an exciting step   for my donut shop but behind every successful new  product is seamless planning, financial tracking,   and inventory management.

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Genzmark has an interesting technique  to avoid this. Instead of one AI guessing,   multiple AIs work together to fact check each  other so you drastically reduce wrong answers   or hallucinations when it really counts. You can  access this by going over to new and then clicking   on AI chat.

In AI chat mode make sure that mixture  of agents is selected. You can select a specific   model but the mixture of agents as it says auto  mixes the best AI models for your task. Then   type in your prompt.

This prompt asks Genzmark  to rewrite the YouTube script that opened this   segment. See my original notes on this section  were very boring so I want Genzmark to add more   curiosity. When I hit the enter key Genzmark fans  out this prompt to chat GPT, Claude, and Gemini.  

Then when each model finishes Genzmark uses its  reflection tool to find the best of each answer   and combines them into one big super response. The  downside is you have to wait longer for the answer   but if you have a task where you value creativity  over speed then check this out. Last I'm going   to show you a small snapshot of the future.

It's  not perfect today but it highlights what a lot of   us thought AI would be when we heard it connected  to our emails and calendars. A true AI assistant.   Here's how it works.

Head back to the Genzmark  super agent by clicking the home button. Next   click the button that appears next to research me.  This allows you to add your own tools to the super   agent.

Go ahead and click that add button. This  is a place for you to connect additional services   to the super agent. You can add very popular tools  from Microsoft and Google up top as well as custom   MCP tools the farther you scroll down the page. 

Make sure you trust any MCP tool that you install   because it might divulge personal information  from your prompt. For this AI assistant view   we're just going to focus on Google products so  I've connected my full Google suite that includes   Gmail, Drve, and Google Calendar. What can I  do with that?

Well let's take a look together.   I'll start with a simple prompt asking it to  summarize my unread emails and show me what needs   attention. This takes a minute or two so let's  skip ahead here.

Here's what happens. It looks   in my email and finds these three unread messages.  Then it gives me some more information about them   and summarizes it with the actions I should take. 

Looks like Adele is asking about our break policy   at work and Ricky is asking for time to discuss  some proposal. This is where it gets good. I can   just ask Genspark to draft the responses for me. 

Genspark should check my calendar to get back to   Ricky and I've got a quick answer for Adele here.  I'll press enter and let's see what it comes up   with. You can see first it looks at my calendar  for today and then it gets straight into drafting   these emails.

Down below we can see our first  draft to Adele. It starts with a kind greeting,   then it moves into answering her question, and  then finally concludes with a message of support.   Plus if I highlight any text I can make AI edits  and I can edit the text directly.

This email looks   good so I'll click send. One email down, one  to go. These times are pulled directly from my   calendar and I don't need to interfere at all. 

Once again I can click send to send this off.   Now the last thing I'm going to show you is also  a task for an assistant and that's to give you   information about everyone you're meeting with  today. This takes a minute or two so let's press   enter and see what happens.

It looks up everyone  you're meeting with and assembles a brief for each   contact. I've got a meeting with Kevin today  and from this summary I can see that he's an   education expert turned cookie entrepreneur.  That definitely definitely describes him.

Here   are a few best practices to wrap us up. First,  certain agents do best with one-shot prompts,   meaning you get everything right with just one  prompt. AI Slides is a great example of that so   I suggest you use AI Chat or another AI Chatbot to  build your prompt first and then drop it into the   agent for AI Slides.

Second, if you don't want  your data to be used to train Genspark's model,   turn off AI Data Retention by clicking  on your profile icon, clicking settings,   and then toggling the data retention switch. So  we just covered how Genspark can supercharge your   AI Chat and actually take action by sending  email and making calls for you. This is the   era of AI agents guys and it's only going to get  better from here.

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