If 2023 was the year of AI, then it’s looking like 2024 will carry on the trend. You may not have tried out one of the many AI chatbots that hit the scene over the last year, but you’ve probably heard a thing or two about them. How could you not? OpenAI’s ChatGPT gained 100 million users in just two months. It took Instagram and TikTok two and a half years and nine months, respectively, to hit that same mark.
The field of AI chatbots and other generative AI tools is expansive and growing. A short list includes Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude.ai, Perplexity, Dall-E and Midjourney, and collectively they’re poised to transform how you work, how you get information and how companies do business. But it all got started with ChatGPT.
Learning to use and navigate using AI chatbots will be increasingly important this year, and if one of your goals is to get more comfortable with AI, you’re in the right place. Here’s what you need to know about getting started with ChatGPT.
For more, here’s an in-depth look at ChatGPT and how AI is changing the way we answer our health questions.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence service that simulates human conversation to attempt to understand your text-based questions and requests and then respond to them. To accomplish this task, the chatbot is pretrained on large data sets (including public webpages) to look for patterns and create understandable and appropriate responses based on your requests or prompts. (The “GPT” part of the name reflects that and is short for “generative pretraining transformer.”)
If you really want to dig into what ChatGPT is, we have a handy ChatGPT glossary that can help you make sense of it all.
Before your first ChatGPT prompt…
You can’t start asking ChatGPT for help until you make an account with OpenAI.
Navigate to ChatGPT’s login page, and you’ll be met with the options to Log In or Sign Up. Tap the Sign Up button and provide your name, email address and a valid phone…
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