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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