ChatGPT For Dummies
ISBN: 9789363861633
176 pages
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Description
ChatGPT For Dummies demystifies the artificial intelligence tool that can answer questions, write essays, and generate just about any kind of text it’s asked for. This powerful example of generative AI is widely predicted to upend education and business. In this book, you’ll learn how ChatGPT works and how you can operate it in a way that yields satisfactory results. You’ll also explore the ethics of using AI-generated content for various purposes. Written by a journalist who's been on the front lines of artificial intelligence for over a decade, this book dives deep into ChatGPT’s potential, so you can make informed decisions—without asking ChatGPT for help.
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1: Introducing ChatGPT
Setting Up an Account
Comparing ChatGPT, Search Engines, and Analytic
Understanding What ChatGPT Is and Isn’t
Unwrapping ChatGPT fears
Competing with ChatGPT for your job
Redefining the Chatbot with ChatGPT and ChatGPT Plus
Comparing the two versions
Sampling its many uses
Discovering other forms of GPT
Grabbing Headlines and Disrupting Businesses
Grokking that ChatGPT is a harbinger of exponential change
Weighing the initial effect on existing businesses and industries
Bracing for future upheaval
Breaking the spell of heartless machine overlords
Opening the Door for Bigger AI Products
Categorizing types of Generative AI
Understanding ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI
Chapter 2: Discovering How ChatGPT Works
What’s Different About ChatGPT
Peeking at the ChatGPT Architecture
Discovering the supercomputer and GPUs underneath
Considering the importance of transformers
Setting the stage: training the model
Grasping the importance of the dialogue format
Pondering ChatGPT’s limitations
Increasing the Number of Versions and Integrations
Glimpsing ChatGPT in Microsoft add-ins
Mainstreaming ChatGPT via the power of an API
Checking out early ChatGPT API adopters
Expanding the field of extensions
Building New Businesses Based on ChatGPT
Chapter 3: Writing Prompts for ChatGPT
Prompting Basics
Starting a chat
Reviewing your chat history and more
Understanding Prompt Engineering
Circumventing Token Limits and User History Storage Issues
Thinking in Threads
Chaining Prompts and Other Tips and Strategies
Chapter 4: Understanding GPT Models in ChatGPT
Summarizing Model Progress
Comparing GPT-4 to Earlier ChatGPT Models
Choosing ChatGPT Models
Learning about GPT-4 Advancements
Adjusting to GPT-4’s Limitations
Chapter 5: Warnings, Ethics, and Responsible AI
Making Responsible AI
Troubling developments
Protecting humans from humans using AI
Understanding the good, the bad, and the ugly
Heeding OpenAI Warnings
Considering Copyright and IP Protections
Searching for Predictability
Reaching for reliability
Hallucinating versus accuracy
Humanizing the machine
Mitigating Risks and Liability
Chapter 6: Probing Professional and Other Uses for ChatGPT
Finding ChatGPT Embedded in Software
Locating ChatGPT in business software
Integrating with everything, everywhere, all at once
Zooming in on ChatGPT in virtual meetings
Letting ChatGPT summarize and translate
Searching for ChatGPT in other applications
Seeing ChatGPT in AR, VR, and the Metaverse
Discovering ChatGPT in search engines
Coding with ChatGPT and Copilot X
Learning Where to Use ChatGPT for Marketing
Retrieving Smart Answers for HR
Harnessing ChatGPT in Legal
Storytelling in Journalism
Consulting ChatGPT in Healthcare
Cashing In on ChatGPT in Finance
Chapter 7: Working with ChatGPT in Education
Flipping Critical Thinking to a New Learning Model
Leveraging ChatGPT to Aid Overworked Educators
Changing How Subjects Are Taught
Banning ChatGPT Stifles Education
Chapter 8: Using ChatGPT in Daily Life
Dying Keywords
Moving from Information Search to Knowledge Assistants
Living with Misinformation and Manipulation
Narrowing Options
Chapter 9: Recognizing the Ways ChatGPT and Generative AI Will Change the World
Understanding What Is and Isn’t of Real Concern
Measuring the Good and Bad in ChatGPT
Weighing Job Threats and Other ChatGPT Liabilities
Sampling the Disruptions Ahead
Chapter 10: Ten Other Generative AI Tools to Try
DALL-E and DALL-E 2
DeepL Write and DeepL Translator
Cedille
Notion AI
YouChat
ChatSonic
Poe
Jasper
Durable
God Mode
Index