Powerful, incredible, frustrating, dizzying, limited… Adjectives abound to judge ChatGPT, the revolutionary chatbot created by the American startup OpenAI.
Revolutionary? Yes, because it goes far beyond anything done so far and gives a glimpse of the future of artificial intelligence. Whether it’s writing dissertations, translations, summaries, recipes, or stories, the tool is amazingly simple. Still, you need to follow some rules to get the most out of it. Follow the guide.
If chatGPT condenses an impressive amount of data, it would be a mistake to turn it into gospel. Still perfectible, the tool has already shown that it can sometimes make mistakes or even lie in certain situations. Therefore, his answers must necessarily be taken with a grain of salt. Also, OpenAI has implemented certain limits to prevent misuse of the chatbot.
First steps in ChatGPT
To use ChatGPT, simply go to https://chat.openai.com/ and sign up. Subsequently, the site turns out to be very simple with a search bar displayed at the bottom of the screen to start the conversation with ChatGPT.
It is possible to stop your work along the way and start a new response. At the top left of the screen, “New Chat” allows you to return to the first page.
· Question
This is the first task you can ask of it, even if ChatGPT is not omniscient: it uses billions of pieces of data collected from the Internet to deliver the answer that seems right to you in a few seconds. So it doesn’t predict the future (sorry) or even the week’s weather because theoretically you’re limited to a database dating back to 2021 and you don’t have internet access.
In theory, because updates have probably been made. ChatGPT knows, for example, that Elon Musk is the current CEO of Twitter, when no one could have guessed it last year.
· Specify your requests
One of the first rules you should know is to clearly specify your requests to ChatGPT. The more specific the question, the more specific the answer. Also, ChatGPT is more comfortable with constructed and grammatically correct sentences.
keep it simple
As sophisticated as it is, ChatGPT likes simple, clear and unambiguous sentences. It is better to be concise to get a better result. In addition, the chatbot does not identify humor or second degree very badly.
A hint anyway that the system could accumulate new information using the data of other users: it can sometimes detect certain jokes that others have already sent to you.
Use your ability to summarize a text
Artificial intelligence also offers a function that is as practical as it is impressive: the possibility of generating summaries. If you need to summarize a text in a few lines, ChatGPT can do it for you, whenever you ask it to.
In this example, we ask ChatGPT to summarize ten lines from an AFP dispatch published on the BFMTV.com site.
Obviously, a ChatGPT summary is not necessarily exhaustive, like all summaries. Additionally, you can translate your response into a foreign language or into French if the original text is in another language.
Understand complex theories.
ChatGPT has a certain talent for explaining complex notions.
Not convinced? It is now when ChatGPT also gains all its interest: do not hesitate to relaunch it, note its possible blurring. This way you will get the best results.
try and try again
These few examples of use are not enough to account for the incredible extent of what the chatbot can do: recipes based on what is left in the fridge, children’s stories with very specific criteria or more ideas for gifts. Enough to encourage the most curious to spend long hours with him.
Source: BFM TV
