Very easy to use, the OpenAI chatbot offers a myriad of possibilities. Here’s how to approach the tool in the best way.
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 everything that has been done so far and gives a glimpse of the future of artificial intelligence. Whether for writing dissertations, translations, summaries, recipes or stories, the tool is amazingly simple. Still, you have to follow a few rules to make the most of it. Follow the guide.
If chatGPT condenses an impressive mass of data, it would be a mistake to make gospel of it. Still perfectible, the tool has already demonstrated that it could sometimes make mistakes or even lie in certain situations. His answers must therefore necessarily be taken with a grain of salt. In addition, OpenAI has implemented certain limits to prevent the chatbot from being misused.
First steps on ChatGPT
To use ChatGPT, just go to the address https://chat.openai.com/ and register. 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 his work along the way and start a new answer. At the top left of the screen “New chat” allows you to return to the first page.
· To ask questions
This is the first task that you can ask of it, even if ChatGPT is not omniscient: it uses billions of data collected on the internet to deliver the answer that seems appropriate to it in a few seconds. Therefore, it does not predict the future (sorry) or even the weather of the week because it is theoretically limited to a database dating from 2021 and does not have internet access.
In theory, because updates have probably been made. ChatGPT is aware, for example, that Elon Musk is the current CEO of Twitter, when no one could have guessed last year.
· Specify your requests
One of the first rules to know is to clearly specify your requests to ChatGPT. The more specific the question, the more specific the answer. Moreover, 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. Better to be concise to get a better result. Moreover, the chatbot does not identify humor or the second degree quite badly.
A clue all the same that the system could accumulate new information by using the data of other users: it can sometimes be able to spot certain jokes that others have already submitted to it.
· Use their 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, provided you ask it.
In this example, we asked ChatGPT to summarize ten lines of an AFP dispatch published on the BFMTV.com site.
Obviously, a summary of ChatGPT is necessarily not exhaustive – like all summaries. Moreover, he is able to translate his answer 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 that ChatGPT also takes on its full interest: do not hesitate to relaunch it, point out its possible blurs. This is how 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’s left in the fridge, children’s stories with very specific criteria, or more gift ideas. Enough to encourage the most curious to spend long hours with him.
