ChatGPT for dummies 2023

ChatGPT is evolving fast, making it difficult for anyone to understand and follow its rapid progression. This book is intended to help bring you up to speed on how it works and how to use it. Yes, ChatGPT will continue to advance after this book is published, but you’ll still have a working knowledge of the technology that you can build upon while continuing to learn as changes occur. Further, you’ll have skills that will help you adapt to and use other AI models, some inevitably far more advanced as time marches on.

CHAPTER 1: Introducing ChatGPT................................................................. 5

Setting Up an Account.......................................................................... 6

Comparing ChatGPT, Search Engines, and Analytics........................ 7

Understanding What ChatGPT Is and Isn’t......................................... 9

Unwrapping ChatGPT fears..........................................................10

Competing with ChatGPT for your job........................................12

Redefining the Chatbot with ChatGPT and ChatGPT Plus..............14

Comparing the two versions........................................................16

Sampling its many uses.................................................................16

Discovering other forms of GPT...................................................18

Grabbing Headlines and Disrupting Businesses.............................20

Grokking that ChatGPT is a harbinger of

exponential change.......................................................................20

Weighing the initial effect on existing businesses

and industries................................................................................21

Bracing for future upheaval.........................................................22

Breaking the spell of heartless machine overlords...................23

Opening the Door for Bigger AI Products........................................24

Categorizing types of Generative AI............................................24

Understanding ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI................................25

CHAPTER 2: Discovering How ChatGPT Works..................................27

What’s Different About ChatGPT.......................................................27

Peeking at the ChatGPT Architecture................................................29

Discovering the supercomputer and GPUs underneath..........29

Considering the importance of transformers............................31

Setting the stage: training the model..........................................32

Grasping the importance of the dialogue format......................34

Pondering ChatGPT’s limitations.................................................34

Increasing the Number of Versions and Integrations....................37

Glimpsing ChatGPT in Microsoft add-ins....................................40

Mainstreaming ChatGPT via the power of an API......................41

Checking out early ChatGPT API adopters..................................42

Expanding the field of extensions...............................................43

Building New Businesses Based on ChatGPT..................................44

CHAPTER 3: Writing Prompts for ChatGPT...........................................47

Prompting Basics.................................................................................48

Starting a chat................................................................................50

Reviewing your chat history and more.......................................52

Understanding Prompt Engineering.................................................54

Circumventing Token Limits and User History Storage Issues......55

Thinking in Threads.............................................................................57

Chaining Prompts and Other Tips and Strategies...........................58

CHAPTER 4: Understanding GPT Models in ChatGPT...................61

Summarizing Model Progress............................................................61

Comparing GPT-4 to Earlier ChatGPT Models.................................62

Choosing ChatGPT Models.................................................................64

Learning about GPT-4 Advancements..............................................67

Adjusting to GPT-4’s Limitations........................................................68

CHAPTER 5: Warnings, Ethics, and Responsible AI........................71

Making Responsible AI........................................................................71

Troubling developments...............................................................72

Protecting humans from humans using AI.................................74

Understanding the good, the bad, and the ugly........................75

Heeding OpenAI Warnings.................................................................75

Considering Copyright and IP Protections.......................................77

Searching for Predictability................................................................78

Reaching for reliability...................................................................78

Hallucinating versus accuracy......................................................79

Humanizing the machine..............................................................81

Mitigating Risks and Liability..............................................................83

CHAPTER 6: Probing Professional and Other Uses for

ChatGPT..............................................................................................87

Finding ChatGPT Embedded in Software.........................................88

Locating ChatGPT in business software......................................88

Integrating with everything, everywhere, all at once................93

Zooming in on ChatGPT in virtual meetings...............................95

Letting ChatGPT summarize and translate.................................96

Searching for ChatGPT in other applications.............................97

Seeing ChatGPT in AR, VR, and the Metaverse...........................99

Discovering ChatGPT in search engines....................................101

Coding with ChatGPT and Copilot X................................................103

Learning Where to Use ChatGPT for Marketing............................105

Retrieving Smart Answers for HR....................................................106

Harnessing ChatGPT in Legal...........................................................106

Storytelling in Journalism.................................................................108

Consulting ChatGPT in Healthcare..................................................109

Cashing In on ChatGPT in Finance..................................................110

CHAPTER 7: Working with ChatGPT in Education.........................111

Flipping Critical Thinking to a New Learning Model......................112

Leveraging ChatGPT to Aid Overworked Educators......................115

Changing How Subjects Are Taught................................................117

Banning ChatGPT Stifles Education.................................................120

CHAPTER 8: Using ChatGPT in Daily Life..............................................121

Dying Keywords.................................................................................121

Moving from Information Search to Knowledge Assistants........123

Living with Misinformation and Manipulation...............................126

Narrowing Options............................................................................127

CHAPTER 9: Recognizing the Ways ChatGPT and

Generative AI Will Change the World.......................129

Understanding What Is and Isn’t of Real Concern........................130

Measuring the Good and Bad in ChatGPT.....................................130

Weighing Job Threats and Other ChatGPT Liabilities....................131

Sampling the Disruptions Ahead.....................................................132

CHAPTER 10: Ten Other Generative AI Tools to Try.......................135

DALL-E and DALL-E 2.........................................................................136

DeepL Write and DeepL Translator.................................................138

Cedille.................................................................................................139

Notion AI.............................................................................................141

YouChat..............................................................................................142