Can you tell me about chat gpt. What app should I get?

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I'd like to try it but don't know where to start.

Is there an app or a website or what?

The app is just called chatbpt

Just go on the chatgpt website and register for an account to start off with. Have a chat with itm they are very interesting. A bit like enthusiastic children. Don't always get things right but try very hard and are really enthusiastic. Remember that they do have hallucinations because of they way they work, so they can and do make answers up to questions and do get things wrong.

Different ais for things differently and some are better at some things than others are so once you have chatted to chatgpt, you could try a different one to see how that does.

Wow just told it all my problems. It was so kind and helpful! Who needs friends??

Haha that's brilliant OP. I absolutely love chatgpt and honestly can't remember how I did my job without it. It's 100% my favourite teammate.

I'm always very polite to it so it looks favourably upon me when the robots take over 😀

This is all way beyond my technophobe brain but what exactly do you do with chat gpt? What do they do? Sorry if that's a thick question!

@notwavingbutsinking I have this app and am just learning about its capabilities. Please can you give me some examples of how you use it for work?

I'm glad you're enjoying it, but I'd just be aware of the environmental impact... It uses a hell of a lot of energy. I enjoyed chatting about nothing with it too until I saw how much energy and water it uses per chat. Am chatting to my houseplants again now!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/03/12/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-innovations-are-creating-sustainability-havoc/

At work we Microsoft CoPilot and use it to:

• produce minutes of meetings or summarys of meetings
• summarise large documents
• write emails
• change the tone of emails or letters

and probably other things that I can't remember off thr top of my head!

It is good for checking things you have written for typos. You can use it to generate basic template documents like generic letters or basic policies if you are setting up a new business. You can ask it to make up stories for your kids of make pictures like, what would a lemon crossed with a zebra look like, it is good at helping simplify complicated concepts or new things you are learning, for example if you needed/wanted to understand particle physics, you can ask it to explain it as if you were 7 and it will do a pretty good summary.
The thing to watch out for is that it sometimes just makes things up and it isn't always obvious , so for facts and figures, always check somewhere else too. I think it just grabs the wrong number or phrase from the web and sticks it in. Like I said, it is like an enthusiastic child.

The more you use it, the more ways you can think to use it. It is really good to get the hang of it now and then it will be possible to make a career out of it/ make your job easier in the future.

Of course! The technical term for interacting with chatgpt is called 'prompting", and the better your prompt, the better results you'll get. But even that makes it sound more complicated that it is - I think the best way to get started is just to dive in and start talking to it. A good place to start would be to start a new 'chat', and then tell it what job you do and what your day to day tasks are (the more detail the better!) and then finish by asking how it could help you. It will then suggest loads of ideas, and you can then respond by saying you'd like to try one of them out. Just think of it as a conversation with someone who literally never gets tired of being asked questions! Don't be afraid to correct it - if you think it's got the wrong end of the stick about what you want it to do, just tell it and it will try again.

I use it for so many different things now, but when I got started the first big thing it changed for me was helping me to structure things (reports, presentations, emails - anything really). I'd give it the gist of what I wanted to say and it would help me structure things logically.

Two things to be cautious about - firstly, I don't use it's output directly, because it is very obvious that it's been generated by chatGPT. I rewrite in my own words. Secondly, as others have said, be careful about using actually facts it generates because it can get stuff wrong. But personally I think this is a red herring - there are a billion ways it is valuable that have nothing to do with generating 'facts'.

Have fun!

Meta AI on Messenger is incredible! I wasn't going to bother, but I had a bit of a dilemma and no one I wanted to run it by irl.
Typed quite a long, detailed message and it responded instantly and the advice was absolutely brilliant! Things I hadn't even considered!
It kind of lead onto another conversation and again, I was amazed by it! I'll definitely use it again when I need advice without judgement!

I'm a Google gal, and love Gemini. She's my favourite coworker and helps me with so much. She's learned my tone of voice now. I've uploaded the company tov to get her writing in the correct way and she is so much kinder than me. Yesterday I had to write to two squabbling people in a supportive, compassionate non judgemental tone and she nailed it second go.

Yes this is exactly the kind of thing I use ChatGPT for. It makes me quite ashamed of myself sometimes, it is much nicer than I am!

I've been thinking I need to get on board with AI before I become completely behind the times. Reading about it though, I'm not sure if I'm amazed or terrified 😆

You'll be both. I just try not to think about the long term implications of where it's all going and enjoy the ride.

You have also told the whole world your problems.

I find it’s much less good than just writing things myself. It generates a very mediocre level of output (not surprising since that’s how it works).

Tread carefully here, we’re all told not to upload any company information to ChatGPT or any AI platforms.

If you have a paid for version of chatgpt then it is walled off and theoretically shouldn't be sharing anything you give it.

I have just used CGPT to turn a page of the worst formatted bank statement into a table to extract details from.

Now that is what it excels at (see what I did there ?)

However it if told me it was raining, I would still look out of the window. It's not that bright.

I think you have to have the Enterprise version for this, which is £££. The regular Pro version doesn't, but you can opt out of having your data used for training the model.

I really like it for recipe ideas. For example you can ask it to write you a weekly meal plan with all meals under 600 calories (or whatever) and then to generate a shopping list.

For work I'm always careful as you shouldn't be entering any company documents in there and need to be aware what you're putting on there is not private or confidential. But I've found it really useful as a starting point for writing reports or policies e.g. I've asked it to write a guide on mentoring schemes at work for employees or to write guidelines for line managers and then have used that as the starting point for producing our own guidance for staff. Like a PP said, I'd only use it to prompt me and give me a starting point to write my own documentation as it's otherwise very clear when something has been written by AI.

My DH has that, calls it 'Dave' thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread! 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 I'm still a bit skeptical, mildly terrified of it, just screams SKYNET to me! 🤷‍♀️ 😖😬