This shortcut brings deep ChatGPT integration to native iOS features and apps

We’ve seen OpenAI’s ChatGPT expertise come to Apple units in a variety of alternative ways, together with with devoted apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. The latest entry to the scene is an extremely highly effective and versatile shortcut from the oldsters over at MacTales, which ties ChatGPT into your favourite iOS features and apps…

S-GPT is a shortcut in your Apple units created by the one-and-only Federico Viticci. The objective of S-GPT is to take the ability of ChatGPT and tie it in with native features of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS. It’s described as an “advanced conversational shortcut” that’s primarily based on the ChatGPT API.

Part of Federico’s inspiration for S-GPT was seeing how effectively Microsoft is integrating ChatGPT with Windows. “I’m jealous that the same isn’t true on Apple platforms,” Federico writes in his announcement weblog publish:

So, greater than a easy bot to have a dialog with ChatGPT in Shortcuts, I set out to create a software that may join ChatGPT responses to native iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS functionalities. I needed to create a ChatGPT-based utility that may provide help to course of your knowledge and make issues occur on your pc slightly than merely reply trivia questions or write poems.

In this primary model, S-GPT helps integrations with the next features of iOS, macOS, and iPadOS:

• Safari share sheet: “If you share a webpage with S-GPT, it’ll try to summarize it for you.”
• Clipboard: ChatGPT can course of the contents of something in your clipboard to do issues like summarize the contents, verify for grammar errors, and extra.
• Reminders and Calendar
• Live Text: “You can use S-GPT to summarize text extracted from any image in your photo library via Apple’s Live Text technology.”
• Quick Look, Files, Finder, Translate, and different export actions: You can use these integrations to export your S-GPT conversations and save them.

But one of the spectacular features of S-GPT is the way it integrates with the Music app. As Federico explains:

This is the massive one: S-GPT could make a playlist in Apple’s Music app for any record of songs returned by ChatGPT. As lengthy as there’s a listing of songs offered by S-GPT, you may ask it to flip it right into a playlist and you’ll find yourself with a model new, precise playlist within the Music app. Try asking “Make me a playlist with 10 emo songs from the late 2000s” or “I want a playlist with the top 15 songs by the members of boygenius.”

This remains to be the floor. ChatGPT can discover and advocate songs by vibe, launch date, temper, and extra. Imagine this: “I’m feeling nostalgic. Make me a playlist with 25 mellow indie rock songs released between 2000 and 2010 and sort them by release year, from oldest to most recent.”

Some of the issues I attempted particularly utilizing the Apple Music integration:

• “Create a playlist of Codplay’s Grammy-winning songs”
• “Create a playlist of 15 songs produced by Jack Antonoff and not performed by Bleachers”
• “Create a playlist of 10 one hit wonders from the late 90s and early 2000s”
• “Create a playlist of every Coldplay song that has appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, sorted by release date”
• “Create a playlist of 15 deep cut Coldplay songs”

What Federico has constructed with S-GPT is extremely spectacular, each for the uncooked performance of the shortcut and additionally by way of privateness. “Unlike other shortcuts for ChatGPT, your conversations are only ever sent to the OpenAI API: by default, the shortcut does not keep a log or cache of your chats unless you manually ask it to export a transcript,” he explains.

One factor to word is that you’ll want an API key from OpenAI for ChatGPT to use with S-GPT. You can allow the pay-as-go billing possibility, which prices $0.002 per 1K tokens. “I’ve been testing S-GPT extensively for the past month, and my usage is up to $1.50 so far,” Federico says.

The 1.0 model of S-GPT I’m releasing right now is only the start for this shortcut.

In the weeks I’ve spent constructing S-GPT, it has turned out to be a transformative shortcut that’s altering my concept of chatting with an assistant on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. I’m pleased with the system integrations the shortcut has up to now, however I’m engaged on much more for future updates – together with the flexibility to run Terminal instructions and scripts on macOS or methods to let ChatGPT course of the contents of textual content paperwork from Files and Finder. Once I noticed the potential for a big language mannequin mixed with Shortcuts’ native OS integrations, I knew this shortcut might be one thing particular.

Nobody can clarify what S-GPT does higher than Federico himself, so I’ll refer you to his full write-up over at MacTales for all the small print. You can even hear him speak by means of some examples of S-GPT use circumstances on the most recent episode of the Connected podcast on Relay FM.

You can obtain S-GPT from the MacTales web site and set it up by way of the Shortcuts app in your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. I extremely advocate giving it a strive, even should you’ve beforehand been skeptical in regards to the usefulness of ChatGPT.

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