An application called Poe it will now allow users to create their own chatbot using prompts combined with an existing bot, such as ChatGPT, as a base. First released in February, Poe is the latest product from the Q&A site of Quora, which has long provided answers to the most Googled questions. With chatbots potentially driving the future of web search and Q&A, the company decided to expand into this market by allowing consumers to play with the latest AI technologies from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic through a simple mobile interface. .
Initially, Poe debuted support for a handful of general knowledge chatbots, including Sage and Dragonfly, powered by OpenAI, and Claude, based on Anthropic technology. Last month, Poe launched subscriptions that allow users to pay to access the most powerful bots based on new language models, including OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude+. Poe is also the only consumer-facing Internet product with access to Claude or Claude+, the company noted at the time.
Poe will now offer users the ability to create their own bots by prompting or hinting, that is, ways to direct a chatbot to perform very specific tasks.
Nowadays, people are using this technique to direct bots to generate texts in the style of a favorite author, in a particular format, or aimed at a specific audience, among other things. Essentially, the idea is that better user prompts lead to better results. This has led to the creation of a new class of creators within the field of engineering indications or suggestions. online of the artists have too spring up to allow people to share their ideas and findings.
We're launching a new feature in Poe today: User Created Bots. Initially, this allows anyone to create a new bot based on a short text message and an existing bot used as a base. We currently support Claude Instant and ChatGPT as basic bots.
Adam D'Angelo (@adamdangelo)
With Poe's new feature, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo explained in Twitter, as users can create their own bots based on Claude or ChatGPT. Once created, the bot will have its own unique URL (poe.com/botname) that will open the bot directly in Poe. D'Angelo also shared some fun bots the company created to demonstrate the new feature, including a "bot that talks like a pirate" on poe.com/PirateBota japanese teacher and a bot that turns your messages into emojis in poe.com/emojis.
“We've seen a lot of great experiments with cues in LLMs (Large Language Models) both among the Poe community and on the Internet, and it's amazing how much value cues from language models can unlock,” D'Angelo wrote. “We hope this new feature can help encourage talented people to share their skill with the rest of the world and provide simple interfaces for everyone to take full advantage of AI,” he said.
Users will be able to access the bots through Poe's iOS or Android app or through its web interface. When you find a bot you like, you can click a button to follow the bot so you can easily return to it later. The bot will appear in the Poe sidebar bot list along with general purpose bots like Sage, Claude and others. Quora plans to cover all costs associated with running this feature for now, including LLM fees, which it notes could become steep if any bots become popular.
Image: Poe on the web
Going forward, the plan is to give bot builders feedback on how people are using their bot so they can iterate on improvements. Later, the company also plans to develop an API that would allow anyone to host a bot from a server they operate, allowing for even more complex bots, and also potential new business for Quora.
Some users have already announced on Twitter how they used the feature to create bots for practical purposes, such as travel planning or learn mathematics as well as for fun FlirtBot. Poe's guidelines restrict a variety of use cases that could be problematic, such as hate speech, violence, illegal activities, fraud, IP infringement, and others, but whether any bots will circumvent their rules remains to be seen.
Poe is not the only mobile app that caters to mobile users. Although OpenAI has not released an official app, dozens of AI chatbots flooded the App Store claiming to offer access to ChatGPT and now, top AI apps are raking in millions of dollars. Microsoft's Bing and Edge apps also integrated AI technology, made possible by a partnership with the company with OpenAI. Meanwhile, other AI startups such as Perplexity have also recently launched their mobile apps.
That being said, consumer demand for Poe has been going well. To date, the mobile app version of Poe has 1,17 million installs and generated $520 in gross revenue, according to the app intelligence firm. data.ai. The app is currently ranked 32nd in the Productivity category on the App Store.
