If you don’t recall the excitement around Sam Altman’s announcement that OpenAI subscribers would be able to create their own GPTs and that there would be a GPT Store to monetize them, I would not blame you. Almost immediately after that, Altman was fired from his role as CEO of OpenAI. The GPT Store was delayed for weeks, but went live January 10, after Altman was reinstated as CEO.
In the meantime I have created SOCrates Pro, a GPT informed with my writing. That means I uploaded PDFs of the manuscripts for There Will be Cyberwar, my collected essays, Surviving Cyberwar, and Secure Cloud Transformation. Like all GPTs it is free to existng subscribers to ChatGPT.
It could very well be that ChatGPT is already trained on my writing, but having it all front and center helps focus SOCrates Pro.
What can you use it for? Well it does not answer questions based on our database of 3,767 cybersecurity vendors. Maximillian built that into the Dashboard last year. Here is a response to “Give me a list of Fortinet’s products: “
We made an interesting discovery though. Slapping a chat front end on a database is not nearly as useful as traditional query tools. It takes two clicks to bring up a complete list of Fortinet’s products along with descriptions, features, and alignment with Mitre ATT&CK.
I use SOCrates Pro for other tasks that is is good at. It is an expert at writing press releases for instance. It is also great at creating outlines. I asked it to create an outline for a white paper on enterprise browsers.
What I like is its almost pedantic approach to writing non-fiction. You can double check these outlines before publishing to make sure you captured a complete picture.
Feel free to use Socrates Pro for your own work. You have to pay OpenAI $20 for a subscription to ChatGPT. There are no additional costs for the millions of GPTs in the Store.
Yay. We just passed 4,000 subscribers to The Security Industry! Thank you for being one of those.