ChatGPT Does Not Think

 


Some people think of ChatGPT as something that has surpassed humans and is becoming better than us in writing. But, is it true? In their article, How To Turn ChatGPT Into Your Ultimate Personal Writing Assistant, Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole remind us that the one big mistake we can make when turning to the chatbot is treating it as if it could think. It is capable of a lot of things, it can generate long text within seconds, but that is exactly what it does: it generates text based on input we give it. If we use it the proper way, by feeding it exact scenarios, well phrased questions and ask for a specific format for the output, we might just be able to turn ChatGPT into our personal writing assistant.

Among other things, the chatbot can be great at helping with generating ideas, listing and summarizing sources, as well as helping with organizing ideas based on just some keywords. The secret? You must build every scenario for every chat session from scratch. Some already call it prompt-engineering!

See more about it here: https://www.ship30for30.com/post/how-to-turn-chatgpt-into-your-ultimate-personal-writing-assistant


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