29. OpenAI Updates for Therapists: What AI Tips Therapists Need to Know (Days 5–9)

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OpenAI Updates for Therapists: What AI Tips Therapists Need to Know (Days 5–9)

Welcome back to part two of my deep dive into OpenAI Updates for Therapists. Last week, we covered the exciting features from days 1 through 4 of OpenAI’s 12 Days of Christmas, and this week, I’m here to share the latest updates from days 5 through 9. These new tools—like Apple Intelligence integrations, Santa Mode, advanced video functionalities, and project uploads—are packed with potential for literally transforming how therapists use AI in their practices. I just get so excited about all of this.

From organizing your files to real-time video assistance, these updates are taking ChatGPT to the next level. Whether you’re already integrating AI into your practice or just starting to explore the possibilities, these OpenAI Updates for Therapists are going to blow your mind. Let’s dive in!

AI Tips You Don’t Want to Miss:

  • Learn about the new Apple Intelligence integrations for Siri and ChatGPT, bringing smarter AI features to your devices.
  • Discover Santa Mode, a fun and interactive feature that lets kids talk to a realistic AI-powered Santa Claus.
  • Explore advanced video functionalities that allow real-time video assistance and applications for tasks like step-by-step tutorials.
  • Find out how to use project uploads to organize your files with project folders in ChatGPT.
  • See how enhanced search tools let you use ChatGPT as a replacement for traditional search engines.
  • Get the latest Berries updates, including client file creation, session summaries, and improved note management features.
OpenAI Updates for Therapists

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Transcript: 

[00:01:07] Last week, , you might remember that I was being a total AI geek and so excited about open AI is 12 days of Christmas that they’re releasing 12 new components to the open AI platform for us to be able to use and continue to work with inside of chat, UPT and open AI, all of you guys know that ChatGPT is my favorite platform to use.

[00:01:30] I’ve used the other ones I’m thinking maybe next week I might do some updates with Gemini because they’ve come out with a ton of new stuff too that I probably want to update you guys on. But today I want to follow up and make this part two and since that time, they have released days five through nine.

[00:01:46] So day five they and you can go back and listen to days one one through four ton of really cool things They released but day five they released new AI integrations.

[00:01:55] So They have released the apple integrations You can basically go if you’re an apple user an iphone user your mac an ipad You can go in there now under settings and it’s called how, what are they calling it? AI integrations, I think is what they’re calling it. You can go down and you can, it’s called, I remember now, Apple intelligence.

[00:02:16] You go down, you scroll down to Apple intelligence in your settings and your iPhone or whatever. And it’s under Siri settings. You set it up, you turn it on. I went to turn mine on and it actually added me to a wait list. So I don’t have access to it yet. I think iPhone 16 users do have full access to it.

[00:02:33] And it’s going to be like coming out to other users later. I’m an I 15 pro or something. I don’t even know what, what my level phone is, but it’s not the newest one, the 16. So that is a new feature inside of there. And the things that can do is it can hand off. To Siri when if you like tell Siri to come on and listen to you.

[00:02:53] I hope she doesn’t pop on my iPhone right now Listen to you You can basically tell Siri to a question and it’s going to determine if chat GPT would be a better Option to answer that question. So now it’s going to defer to chat GPT to answer your question So Siri just got a whole lot smarter They also have enhanced enabled camera functionalities within your iPhone or your computer and all that stuff.

[00:03:19] If you’re using a Mac basically what that means is you can interface with chat to PT with the video, right? But now they’ve incorporated it in to the video session, like if you, if you turn on your video on your iPhone, I believe this is how it works. You could just like turn on the chat GPT enabled like conversation with the video and it will interact with you video wise.

[00:03:40] I talked about that some last week. It’s super cool. Day six, Santa mode. They released this thing called Santa mode. This is cool for kids. You can like go into the text version on your phone and. put the voice button and you can say, Hey, I want to talk to Santa. And it sounds just like Santa Claus and your kids can have a full on conversation with Santa Claus, a Christmas list, ask Santa what he’s doing, what he’s up to.

[00:04:04] It’s it’s open AI, obviously talking back, but it’s. It’s super advanced and it sounds like you’re interacting with Santa Claus. So that is enabled through, I think the day after Christmas possibly. And then the video integration in advanced mode, they also released that on day six. So what that means is now if you go into, it used to just be voice mode where you could press voice mode, you could talk to chat, UBT.

[00:04:26] Now they have a video button. You press the video button and you can show it like the example they showed is you can show your. Video within chat to PT to the guy had like a, like a coffee set, like the the pour over coffees where you like, you know, put the grounds down, you pour the hot water over and it makes a great cup of coffee or whatever.

[00:04:46] And it was showing the video to chat to PT. He was, and he was like, walk me through how to do this. And I was like, Oh my God. So chat GPT knew exactly what the setup was and walk him through every step of how to do that task. So, you know, I’m thinking like car mechanics, fixing things in your house, like you just turn on this video feature and chat GPT is going to walk you how to fix it in real time.

[00:05:09] Through the the video functionality, which is amazing to me. And, you know, in a therapist perspective, I’m thinking like once it’s HIPAA compliant, or even with Bastion GPT, which is HIPAA compliant, if they have this video thing enabled, you know, can your client talk into it, like have it, Analyze facial features and all of that stuff up, you know, hit done send the chat to their therapist and you can see like interactions that chat to bt is interpreting for what this client’s talking about in that video, that real time video that they’re doing on chat to bt.

[00:05:42] Like, there’s so many implications for this and I actually put a blog post to blog post on my website. I’ll give you the links about these innovations and how you can incorporate them in to work with your clients. Just. blows my mind completely. Day seven. Project uploads. Upload files to chat. UBT. So they have, this is huge. Almost once a week, somebody asked me, Kim, how do you organize all this? stuff inside of chat, chat, GPT. Now they have project folders. So it’s essentially like a Google drive where you can have folders with all of your chats and everything that’s connected.

[00:06:19] You can drag and drop them into these project files now. So you can have just like a project, name it something, and you can keep things like way more organized than before. So that’s amazing. That was so needed. Day eight, they have released search functionality to everyone. So everyone now can immediately search the web. With chat gbt instead of using google or something like that.

[00:06:41] It’s so cool the paid users already had this but now they’ve released it to everybody free subscribers and everything So you just go in with the search enabled in chat gbt and you just say you know a gluten free like what are the top five gluten free restaurants in my area? It’s going to go out search the web come back give you a list.

[00:06:58] It’s going to give you pictures It’s going to give you directions. It’s going to give you like the The features of the menu. It’s going to do it all in a really comprehensive way. And then of course you could interact with it. Like, Hey, which one has the best Italian? And it’s going to like scan it again and say, I think this rec, this, this place would be the best gluten free Italian for you.

[00:07:16] And you could do that. There’s so many use cases for this. I just can’t even spend time talking about all of them. There’s a million ways to use it. Super exciting. If you guys haven’t used that yet and you’ve got the free version, go try it. It’s really cool. I installed, they give you the option to install like a plugin in your Chrome browser, which I did install.

[00:07:35] So now chat GPT is my default search engine. Instead of going to Google, it goes right to chat GPT and gives me like an analysis of whatever I’m Googling, not Googling, but chat GPTing, which, you know, it might be a new phrase. I don’t know. And then day nine, which is. It’s today. And of course, there’s going to be a few more days after this.

[00:07:54] I don’t even know what in the world else they can release. This one is a little bit more advanced for me. It’s a little over my head, but it’s, it’s basically what they call the developer playground.

[00:08:04] So it’s not the, the open a dot com of the chat to pd. com website. It’s their developer playground, but apparently they have. Released advanced reasoning with the API coding inside of the development platform and the experiment that they showed basically is this guy uploaded like his tax forms that he already filled out that he was going to submit to the IRS and he went into this developer playground and he said, you know, I want you to analyze these forms with your advanced reasoning techniques and strategies and tell me what did I miss on this form?

[00:08:37] Did I miss any deductions? Did I add it up wrong? You know, all of this stuff. So it checked. He uploaded four different pages of his tax forms and it checked every single one of them, gave him a lot of feedback around it suggested tax deductions and all of this stuff. And you know, I don’t even know, it blows my mind, everything that you can do in there.

[00:08:56] I need to brush up on that myself. So who knows, maybe I’ll bring an expert in one day into the AI club to help us with that. So that’s day nine. That’s up to date as of. Right now this was released this morning. I just watched that video. So I haven’t even watched the whole thing yet But it’s just super cool.

[00:09:11] And we still have day 10 with their new releases So if you’re into chat GPT at all, I would say go check this stuff out 

[00:09:18] I hope you guys found this helpful. I’m gonna be watching for days 12 with ChatsVT. I can’t even imagine what else they’re gonna be releasing for the rest of the 12 days of Christmas that they’re releasing. All right. Well, I’ll see you guys later. Thanks for coming. And again, Kim Tolson, the clinical consultant to Barry’s B E R R I E S dot ICU.

[00:09:37] Thank you. Bye. slash therapist is the link to go check out berries. If you haven’t done that already, they’re amazing. And we’ve got really cool product updates coming soon. I’m actually releasing a video probably tomorrow on my YouTube channel about some of the newest updates that just came out, which are gosh, you can keep a client record.

[00:09:57] Now you can toggle off where you would normally. like have it set. So it would just delete your client notes after 30 days. Now you can make a client file. You can keep all their notes there. It won’t erase them. Maybe toggle that, that setting off. It keeps the treatment plans. It gives you a nice little session summary.

[00:10:14] So right before you hop into your session, if you have that client selected now, it’ll just tell you what you talked about last time, like real quickly, like a little brief AI synopsis. So So it’s like, Oh yeah, that’s what we talked about right before you hop in the session. I don’t know if you do that, but I’m always like what do we talk about?

[00:10:28] Oh my gosh. What do we talk about? But this just tells you right there and it’s right before you hop into your session. You, you read it, you hit record and you’re in the session with the client. It’s amazing. All right. You guys have a great week. I’ll see you next time