If you're new here from Design Camp Summit, hiiiii! So glad you found your way to The Launchpad to connect with more creatives that are interested in using AI as a creative co-pilot! Introduce yourself, tell us where you're from and what you do, drop any other questions you might have, share how you're using AI already, or if you're totally new to AI, what you felt like was most impactful from the presentation of the live Q&A!

🎉 Welcome to The Launchpad at BAIS CAMP! 🎉 ➡️ If you've been itching to dive into AI but haven't known how, you’re at the right space station! The Launchpad is your skip the line, fast-pass to the wild world of of Generative AI. Before you blast off, make sure you’ve check out the Community Guidelines in the Bot Beginning in the classroom. Let's try to keep the vibes positive, the discussions productive, and remember, in space, no one can hear you spam, so don't. ➡️ How To Earn Your Bot Bucks & Unlock Stellar Content: Who needs boring Earth money when you've got Bot Bucks!? Share your prompts, post your art, ask some questions or drop some wisdom! Every "like" your posts or replies receive is a point (I'm calling them Bot Bucks and you can't stop me!) closer to unlocking some sweet, sweet premium content without even breaking a sweat! Think of it like your favorite childhood game, but with more robots and less running. This is coming soon, I promise. You'll still be racking up points in the meantime, so you might even get immediate access to some content if you've already hit that level when it's all added! ➡️ Invite More Bot Buds to The Launchpad: I know you've all got friends, colleagues or fellow creatives who are AI-obsessed or AI-curious. You know the drill, get 'em in here! Go to Settings 👉 Invite 👉 grab your unique invite link to share. Beam em on up! And sometimes, just sometimes I might have some spacey surprises for those who bring in the most new crew 😜 ➡️ A Very Cosmic Search Bar: The universe is vast, but your search doesn't have to be 😉 Use the Skool search to search for topics like "custom instructions" or "productivity" or "plugins" within all of posts, replies, and content added. I'll even include transcripts when I upload recordings, so the videos will be searchable too! If you're a BAIS CAMP course student, you'll be able to search the lesson videos as well, so sick! ✅ Jumpstart Your Journey with BAIS CAMP: Speaking of the course..are you a total newb when it comes to AI? No prob! You can dive into the foundations of ChatGPT and Dall-E 3 inside of BAIS CAMP. I go over everything you need to know to make ChatGPT and Dall-E 3 your new best bots, all in a 9-module, pre-recorded, self-study course that is sure to level you tf up! Your creativity and workflows will never be the same again! You'll go from clueless to clued in, like you've never been before!

Y'allllll! Hiii! Can we all agree AI is moving so damn fast!? Like truly, I can hardly keep up with it all! Last month OpenAI announced the introduction of a whole new model, GPT-4o, with the o standing for omni. It offered up new voice, vision and listening capabilities, some of which we've seen, others we're still not so patiently waiting for (cough cough new voice mode and screensharing in the desktop app). This also came with a new user interface. They also introduced a desktop app and announced that all the good stuff in GPT-4o like file uploads, image and data analysis, web browsing, all available for free! However you're definitely getting less access than paid members (think 10 messages every 3 hours vs 80 messages every 3 hours). And previous to all this they introduced memory which kinda works in tandem with custom instructions and they removed plugins. So long story short, a lot of the BAIS CAMP course content is out of date and needs a refresher. I'l be spending this week getting the lessons that need updating updated. If you purchased during early bird, pre-sale or launch week you should have received emails about how to extend your access as your six-months comes to a close this week. Those who purchased outside of that window, you'll have access to these updated modules for the remainder of your 6-month access. Once I've made the necessary updates to the current course for current students, I have plans to break things down into more accessible, manageable and affordable modules, that are more specific to what you're trying to accomplish or solve. Think of it kinda like an AI snack bar, grab what you need, leave what you don't! There will likely be core foundational options as well as more advanced/niche topics that I'll cover. I'm especially excited about this because Skool has now made singular "courses" available for purchase right there in the Classroom. Another reason I'm excited about this is because some of these other models like Claude are starting to give ChatGPT a run for its money, and I wanna make sure I'm not counting them out just because I've felt OpenAI did a better job in the past. Things change SO quickly with AI, and being adaptable is important, so I wanna make sure that I'm showing ya'll how to use some of these other tools too!

Morning Launchpad! Wanted to pop in and see how everyone is doing!? What's everyone been up to AI-wise? How are we liking GPT-4o so far? loving it? Hating it (like me!)? Somewhere in the middle? Anyone come across any new tools they're obsessed with? Or prompts they can't stop using? Let's hear it! In other news, I ordered a whole new laptop so that I could start using the new ChatGPT desktop app since it doesn't work with older Intel-based macs. Yes, a single app convinced me to get a new computer. To be fair, it's 5 years old and was ready for an upgrade. So anyway, I've been playing around with it this weekend and I'm wondering why we still don't have the new voice and screenshare features they promised us almost a month ago now! Ruuuude! Also, have ya'll checked out Perplexity's new Pages feature? Also also, if you're not using Perplexity yet, what're you doing?! I just signed up for a Pro account to see if it's worth it. I even copied my custom intstructions for voice and tone I use in ChatGPT over to Perplexity and now my searach results are a vibe too! I've been slammed with all sorts of different projects which is why i've been pretty MIA in here. The two I'm most excited about though? I'm currently running the Scenic Route beta with 13 students and so far it's been a blast! (Scenic Route is my Midjourney course btw.) I can't wait to dive into all the more advanced stuff this week like referencing, weighting and workflows! Hoping to get the finalized course live in August, so make sure you're on the waitlist if you're interested. On top of Scenic Route, I'm co-hosting an AI masterclass this Tuesday (1p EST/12p CST) with Jen from Tonic Site Shop(!!!) all about how you can use ChatGPT to help you write your sales page/website copy. If you're already a BAIS CAMP student you may have figured out how to do this already, but if you're not a BC student or you're looking for even more specific direction, come join us, it's gonna be incred! $195 and you'll be gettin' the prompts and the replay and any other golden nuggets I word vomit because I can't control myself and always wanna share all of the tips and tricks! Check out our lil preview chit chat below to see if you think it might be for you!

I wanted to let all the course students know that I've removed the plugins module from BAIS CAMP and will be removing the section from the Resource Lab since ChatGPT has done away with plugins and there are no signs of them returning as CustomGPT's have essentially replaced them (even though I think they did serve different purposes, OpenAI didn't see it that way). So rather than create confusion, I'm just going to remove. I'm planning to host a CustomGPT workshop this quarter too so keep and eye out for that, I will be updating the CustomGPT module with a list of some of my favorite CustomGPT's now that I've had time to play with some of them and see what they can do! If you've got some of your own favorite CustomGPTs or ones that you've built yourself, feel free to share them here and I'll include them with credit!