ChatGPT Tutorial - A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners

Summary

This video provides a thorough tutorial on using ChatGPT, the conversational AI system created by Anthropic. It begins by walking through the process of creating a new OpenAI account and logging into ChatGPT for the first time. The presenter highlights some of ChatGPT's capabilities, like remembering context from previous conversations and allowing follow-up questions and corrections. Limitations are also noted, like potential inaccuracies, limited knowledge, and bias. The presenter demonstrates ChatGPT's conversational abilities through some basic math questions, showing how it can provide multiple ways to answer the same question. The importance of providing feedback through upvotes and downvotes is emphasized. Resetting the conversation thread to avoid compounding errors is also shown. More advanced prompts are then provided to showcase ChatGPT's skills. The presenter asks for a list of 10 seafood dishes, then uses the context to ask for a shopping list for the first two items. ChatGPT is able to provide the list based on the earlier context. Asking for cooking instructions for one dish produces a step-by-step recipe. Code examples are shown for making API calls and processing API responses in JavaScript. ChatGPT is able to provide and explain the necessary code. The presenter notes that being specific in prompts is important for programmers and subject matter experts. Other examples include generating stories, jokes, documents, and creative content. Summarization skills are demonstrated by simplifying legal documents. The strengths for blogging and article writing are shown through creating outlines, intros, and rephrasing. Overall, the key points covered are signing up for ChatGPT, understanding its capabilities, learning prompting best practices, leveraging conversation context, applying advanced techniques for coding, content creation and more, providing quality feedback, and knowing its limitations. The presenter provides a comprehensive introductory tutorial for using ChatGPT effectively.

Takeaways

• You need to create an OpenAI account to use ChatGPT
• ChatGPT remembers conversation history and context
• ChatGPT outputs can sometimes be inaccurate or biased
• ChatGPT has limited knowledge up to 2021 events
• You can give feedback to ChatGPT with thumbs up/down
• Use the reset button to clear conversation history
• Be very specific with prompts for best results
• Summarize and explain texts by pasting them into ChatGPT
• ChatGPT can write code snippets based on prompts
• Translate content to other languages using ChatGPT

Q & A

What website do you need an account on to use ChatGPT?

You need an account on openai.com to use ChatGPT.

How can ChatGPT remember what you said previously?

ChatGPT remembers the context and history within a conversation thread.

Why might ChatGPT sometimes output incorrect information?

Because ChatGPT is an AI model, it can occasionally generate biased, inaccurate or misleading content.

What is ChatGPT's knowledge limited to?

ChatGPT only has knowledge of events up until 2021.

How can you provide feedback to ChatGPT on its outputs?

You can give feedback by using the thumbs up and thumbs down icons.

What does the reset button do?

The reset button clears the current conversation thread history and context.

What type of prompts work best with ChatGPT?

Very specific prompts tend to produce the best quality outputs from ChatGPT.

How can you get ChatGPT to summarize or explain a text?

You can copy/paste the text into ChatGPT and ask it to summarize or explain it to you.

What kind of coding support does ChatGPT offer?

ChatGPT can generate code snippets based on prompts describing what you want the code to do.

Can ChatGPT translate content to other languages?

Yes, ChatGPT has multilingual support and can translate text to many different languages.