See Part 1 here: What is ChatGPT? Is It Biased? Can I Trust It?
The quality of the output you receive from CGPT depends on the quality of the prompts you enter. Prompts must be very specific - the more specific the better. You can ask CGPT to “Write 250 words” and it will do it. But then ask it to write 250 words about a particular topic in the style of a great author and you will get quite a different result.
CGPT will save and keep your searches in conversation threads in the leftmost pane. It will start one conversation for each new prompt and you can revisit these conversations at any time. CGPT will consider the context of the existing conversation in the new prompts you provide.
It is helpful to group your prompts into areas of study, for example, or a specific passage you are studying. A few weeks ago I was studying Acts 15 for a sermon I was writing so I had a weeklong string of prompts and responses. It’s like a growing database of info that is constantly refining itself.
What is CGPT Good For
First answer: so many things! I’ve been using it every day. My intention with this post was to review and catalogue all the different ways I’ve used it so far and make a list of uses here. In reality, I keep expanding my use and the thought of cataloguing all my usage has become overwhelming. Below I’ve got a handful of uses and in my next post, I will talk about uses more specific to my vocation, which is pastoring.
Great for Search
I now default to CGPT instead of Google when I search because CGPT is great for search, even if it needs to be surveilled for biases and inaccuracies. The same is true for a Google search but with CGPT the answers seem to be written by a human which increases your trust. So be careful. I start with CGPT and use Google as a second method of searching or verifying the veracity of the information provided by CGPT. Of course, even that is not foolproof.
OK, let’s open up CGPT and try some prompting to see what happens.
Just Having Fun
1. Enter “Write a 250-word daily encouragement written by Joel Osteen” as a prompt and see what happens. Then try “Write a 250-word daily encouragement written by C.S. Lewis” and compare the two. You will find that CGPT is adept at mimicking tone and style. This is even more true (and more controversial) in the realm of generative AI art where you can end your prompt with, for example, “in the style of Salvador Dali” and it will give you a newly minted piece of art that is indistinguishable in style from a genuine Dali.
2. Enter something like “Write a dialogue between Donald Trump and Buddha”. The result is quite entertaining. (popping a similar phrase into an AI graphic generation website can also be fun, as you can see from the collage below)
3. Enter “Write a song with three verses and a chorus about Christmas in the style of Leonard Cohen using rarely used words” and you will get what you asked for. (IMO, you don’t get usable song lyrics, but with a bit of tweaking this could be useful.)
In the next post, I’ll move on to more serious applications, especially for those who, like me, are Pastors.
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