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How You Should Be Using ChatGPT Right Now

A practical guide to how you can and can’t use AI in your everyday life—even if it feels terrifying right now.

Alex Dalenberg

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Maybe you’re an early adopter who has already outsourced the drudgery of writing cover letters and simple emails to artificial intelligence. Or maybe the idea of a computer passing the bar exam freaks you out enough to keep you from any firsthand interaction with ChatGPT. But the sooner you start experimenting, the more comfortable you’ll get finding ways that these new tools can work for you.

Unsure of where to start? We’ve curated some of the best advice the internet has to offer about how to start incorporating chatbots like ChatGPT into your work. From figuring out which tasks benefit from this boost to how you can “talk” to AI for improved results, these tips will help you form an approach that’s right for you.

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The Most Important Job Skill of This Century

Charlie Warzel

The Atlantic

Your work future could depend on how well you can talk to AI.

11 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level

David Nield

WIRED

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

If You’re Not Using ChatGPT for Your Writing, You’re Probably Making a Mistake

Dylan Matthews

Vox

How Ethan and Lilach Mollick learned to stop worrying and start using AI in their jobs.

You Should Use ChatGPT for These Mundane Tasks

Beth Skwarecki

Lifehacker

The bot's forte is producing bland, inoffensive prose—and sometimes, that's just what you need.

Where Today’s Generative AI Shines

Ina Fried

Axios

Right now, the hot new field is at its best when handling creative tasks where there’s no “right answer.”

Will ChatGPT Become Your Everything App?

John Herrman

New York Magazine

The announcement of an app store for the AI chat interface reveals the scale of OpenAI’s ambitions.

ChatGPT Is About to Revolutionize the Economy. We Need to Decide What That Looks Like.

David Rotman

MIT Technology Review

New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.

How to Save Your Job from ChatGPT

Trung Phan

Bloomberg

Knowledge workers should find ways to work with the next wave of AI-powered chatbots.

AI Chatbots Compared: Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT

James Vincent

The Verge

The chatbots are out in force, but which is better and for what task? We’ve compared Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT models with a range of questions spanning common requests from holiday tips to gaming advice to mortgage calculations.