The 5 Best Uses (So Far) for ChatGPT’s AI Chatbot

The new AI Tool ChatGPT inspired excitement and concern with his ability to answer complex questions instantly. In the days since its debut, people have discovered plenty of ways it can make their lives easier — including five we found that stand out above the rest.

ChatGPT is a chat-based tool built by research lab OpenAI that answers questions with somewhat conversational dialogue. Its natural language capabilities will amuse anyone who has had to rephrase questions to get answers from Siri or Alexa. The AI, trained in the large chunks of text available on the internet, only knows about information until 2021. But it has an abundance of information about fine details and big concepts. This has some educators upset, but as long as you use it carefully, it can be something of a bonus brain.

To be clear, ChatGPT isn’t a perfect substitute for doing your own research — it doesn’t separate fact from fiction, as CNET science editor Jackson Ryan noticed while detailing the current weaknesses in critical thinking. ChatGPT can answer questions and explain complex concepts, but its potential for inaccuracy has led StackOverflow to temporarily ban ChatGPT-generated software.

That said, there are several ways ChatGPT can make your life easier, by people looking for AI benefits. If you just want to save time on some tasks — and not cheat on your English Lit paper — here are some cool ways to use ChatGPT.

Get a chatbot to save your money

Within a few weeks, a GPT-powered bot can lower the prices of your accounts. Joshua Browder, CEO of Don’t Pay — the “world’s first robot lawyer” that helps people fight traffic tickets and other bills — tweeted that the company is building a Chrome extension based on ChatGPT’s technology foundation to negotiate lower bills from ISPs, hospitals and more.

The expansion will enter closed beta testing in mid-December, before an open beta in the first week of January. Although DoNotPay has been lowering bills for years, its rules-based model has only been able to pick fights where users can submit online complaint forms. After integrating the conversational technology behind ChatGPT, DoNotPay can negotiate back and forth with any service that has customer service chat, opening up the range of accounts that can be challenged to include medical bills, credit reports and landlord-tenant disputes.

“You can tell the bot, ‘Go get me a refund for poor in-flight Wi-Fi’; it will store and send your personal details [the complaint]”, Browder told CNET. He believes the more natural language of the requests will be less suspicious than the rigid form letters DoNotPay previously sent, allowing it to challenge more discerning — and expensive — institutions, such as hospitals. .

The GPT-powered extension will be free for part of its beta testing phase and then eventually be added to DoNotPay’s current account-challenging subscription service, which costs $36 every three months.

As Google’s Duplex AI makes voice calls for you, the future could be bots that do all the tedious work of getting you better deals and cheaper bills.

Make a diet and exercise plan

This requires changing your diet and planning an exercise routine work. To make it easier, Alex Cohen, a senior director of product at Carbon Health, used ChatGPT to make a health improvement plan with a daily calorie target, exercise suggestions, a week-long list of meals and even a shopping list for all the necessary ingredients. He outlined his method in an enlightening thread:

Cohen broke his plan down into a series of steps, calculated his personal health metrics, asked for meals that would fit his daily calorie and nutritional needs, asked for a grocery list, and then an exercise plan to meet his needs.

ChatGPT is no substitute for a doctor and dietitian who can provide a plan for your specific needs and physiology—a warning the tool will tell you if you repeat Cohen’s search terms. But it’s an easy way to sketch out a health plan blueprint that you can review yourself or bring to a health professional.

Generate the next week’s meals with a shopping list

A variation on the last point is worth considering for anyone planning a week’s worth of meals for multiple people.

First ask ChatGPT for a list of meals, explain how many people you are cooking for and whether you are interested in dinners, breakfasts or lunches. Include any preferences and dietary restrictions. Detail how many days you want meal ideas, and poof, you have a list of meals.

Then ask for a shopping list for those meals. You’ll get a pretty basic list of ingredients, so if you want exact amounts, you’ll need to refine your request. For example, you may want to ask for the total amount of ingredients for all the meals listed. GPT makes a shopping list with the number of cans, ounces, pounds and cups of each ingredient you need for a week’s worth of meals.

Create a bedtime story for children

ChatGPT-generated prose has yet to hit the bestseller lists, largely because it lacked the aptitude for creative style. But the tool can make a passable bedtime story for kids, by assembling simple plots and language from basic prompts. For example, I chose a cat who wanted to go to space, and ChatGPT gave me the story of Max, who clawed his way past many obstacles to realize his dreams among the stars.

Stanford grad student in machine learning Eric Zelikman tweeted the idea to use ChatGPT to generate a bedtime story and then import that text into OpenAI’s DALL-E image generating tool for illustrations.

It is not going to replace traditionally published children’s books. But if you’re pressed for time or away from your child’s myriad of bedtime stories, generating one through OpenAI’s tools can be helpful.

Prepare for an interview

If you need to prepare to interview an exciting source, you can ask ChatGPT to generate some thought-provoking questions, like entrepreneur Seth Bannon tweeted.

This can come in handy if you’re a journalist, or if you’re grilling someone on stage at an industry conference, preparing for a job interview, or preparing for dinner with someone you want to impress.

You can even use it as a chat partner to set up mock conversations to practice what you’re going to say. You can instruct it to respond in other languages ​​or also translate specific phrases. You can also use it to polish your cover letters and emails for a bit of professional polish. ChatGPT is not perfect, but if there are many sample copies on the Internet, it can be a skilled communicator.