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Complete ChatGPT Tutorial - [Become A Power User in 30 Minutes]
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hey everyone welcome to the channel my
name is Mike in this tutorial I'm going
to show you how to go from beginner to
expert with the most powerful tool on
the internet right now let's chat GPT
you may have seen headlines about this
disruptive Artificial Intelligence being
able to replace jobs and write documents
and emails and answer questions and the
list goes on and on I can even write
code so in this video I'm going to start
out with the bare bone basics of account
setup and interface layout and then I'll
go over 10 major types of commands that
you can use to get the most out of this
software and at the end once we get to
the more advanced ones I'll show you how
to modify and optimize your commands to
get even better responses this is great
for web development for food and cooking
ideas for business Education Health
mental health the list goes on and on
with what you can do with chat GPT so
it's extremely powerful really could
change your life in many different ways
let's get started with how to actually
use it so the first thing we want to do
is create an account with chat GPT so
open up whatever browser you like and go to
to
chat.openai.com I'll put a link in the
description so you guys can copy that as
well and you'll see a page that looks
something like this we're going to click
on sign up and from here we can either
sign up with our email address or with a
Google account or a Microsoft account
I'm just going to enter an email address
we're going to say tutorials at
sandtrailmedia.com and then we're going
to create a password and then you have
to verify your email so just open up
your email click on the little verify
email button and that should open up in
a new tab and say you're ready to go and
email's been verified so we can come
over here and we can refresh this and
now it's going to ask us a little bit of
information about ourselves it's really
not much just our name I think it's
going to ask for our phone number as
well so I'm going to say Mike and then
it brings you to chatgpt now chat GPT is
free to use right now it's sort of a
free research preview is what they're
calling it is still pretty early on but
you can do a lot with this of course and
so they have some little disclaimers
here there are safeguards but they're
saying basically it's not perfect you
might have some information that's
either not correct because this hasn't
actually been connected to the internet
it's not it hasn't been trained since
2021 so some things might be outdated
additionally it tries to not say
anything offensive or biased but it's
saying right here it's still early on
and that may happen so we say next uh as
far as collecting data this is designed
to really optimize it that's why they
give it out for free right now in the
research mode because they really want
to review these conversations and
improve the software from there so again
a little disclaimer and if you want to
give feedback they have ways to do that
I'll show you throughout this video okay
so here's the interface starting off on
the bottom left you can log out you can
see updates and frequently asked
questions we can toggle to dark mode or
light mode I actually like dark mode a
little better so I think we'll keep that
for this video we can upgrade to plus
which I believe just kind of prioritizes
you so you don't have to wait as long
for the software to run and there's a
couple other little benefits like that
and of course we can go to a new chat so
you can have multiple different
simultaneous chat threads the reason
that you might want to do that is be
because Chad GPT is sort of like a
person in that it remembers what you
said last it's not like Google it
doesn't really remember what you just
said so I can ask a question I could say
um what time is it it'll tell me that
and I'll say yeah but tell me that in 24
hour time and it'll do that it'll
remember what I asked before as well as
what it said and so it's kind of running
with the same thread and if you want to
have a totally different conversation if
you want to work on something completely
different a new chat would sometimes
make the most sense now everything in
the middle will disappear after your
first command but just a quick overview
here the first one we've got some
examples there I'll give you plenty in
this video the second one we have
capabilities third one we have
limitations now the limitations let's
start off there as I mentioned before it
could possibly have incorrect
information this is optimized to be a
real language model it wants to sound
accurate it wants to sound convincing
like a real person but it doesn't mean
everything's factually uh you know
validated right it is possible it's
possible that you'll get wrong
information it's not super common common
but it can happen of course and this
hasn't actually been connected to the
internet and it hasn't been trained
since 2021 so could be a little bit
outdated on some things but for the vast
majority of stuff you ask it to do it
really works just fine I haven't found
these limitations uh to be especially
big at drawbacks but something you want
to know don't ask you what the weather
is because it doesn't have internet
connection capabilities it is you know
it doesn't want to do inappropriate
requests it's not going to write like
mean hateful things to somebody uh of
course it is also it remembers what you
said in the chat as I mentioned before
and it allows you to provide follow-up
feedback so let's go through these 10
different commands I mentioned the first
one the most basic one is just a simple
question similar to what you'd ask on
Google you can ask for a definition of
something you could ask who somebody was
ask about different things there's a
basic one-line question that you might
expect and this is going to give you an
informational answer as if you were
using it like a search engine so I could
say for example uh what does what does
sagacious mean
what does sagacious mean it's going to
give me a definition and you'll also
notice once it does this first of all it
says stop generating that's a button you
could click if it's running on too long
giving you a really long thing and just
kind of wasting your time or maybe you
realize you typed the wrong word and you
didn't finish typing it you can say stop
of course down here we also have the
regenerate response after it's done if
you see and you think you know what I
really don't like that it doesn't really
make sense for this but later on the
video when we talk about write an email
for me or something like that you could
say I don't really like how this looks
and just regenerate response and it will
do that for you once again that option
pops up down here again to stop
generating but talking about some other
things in the interface you'll see on
the left side it automatically created a
new chat and named the chat it said
suggestions meaning sometimes it might
say sagacious definition whatever it
automatically gave it a name you can
rename it if you want to or you could
delete that going back over here you can
give it a thumbs up and a thumbs down
that'll be how you can give feedback to
the actual chat bot here so if I say
thumbs up I could say good job good or I
could say accurate
accurate and we can submit feedback in
that way open eye open AI will know that
that was a good answer of course as you
have more responses generated on the
left side we have a little toggle here
that shows up when you hover over it and
we can go back to the first response or
the second response and again compare
them doesn't make as much sense with
something like this but later on in the
video when you're having it generate
different emails and documents and
things like that you might want to see
the different the different ones and
actually compare for yourself of course
on the left side the other thing that
popped up was clear conversations if you
want to just wipe everything clean and
start fresh that is what you would do
right there now you might wonder why
would you want to clear conversations I
mentioned before it remembers what you
said and this is a great time to show an
example of that so it just it explained
what a word means now if this was Google
and I wanted to get an essentially a
synonym for that I would have to say
sagacious synonym but here I could just
say now give me a synonym
and it knows that we're talking about
sagacious it remembers what we're
talking about and it can give synonyms
right here we can say use it in a
sentence next that's going to be another
example you can really ask all types of
different things and you can really make
the questions even more detailed than
that so we could say
um now use it in
uh 10 sentences
right we can give an example we can tell
it what to do and it's going to give us
10 different example sentences right
here you could do 15 you can do 5
whatever you want and again super useful
super powerful something that you don't
see otherwise on a search engine like
Google Now speaking of lists that brings
me into the second main type of command
you can use with this one which is to
generate lists you can ask it to
generate lists of ideas maybe this is
going to be a list of themes for party
ideas or a list of hobbies a list of
Life purposes a list of business ideas
you can do whatever you want and so
let's go with an example right here so
let's go and create a new chat for this
one because we're talking about
something different and let's say I want
to find a new hobby so we could say
create a list of hobbies it'll give me a
list of hobbies but really again what's
cool about this is this might be a
surface level inquiry we could just say
give me some hobbies and on Google
you're likely to find some blog that
gives you something like this but really
the advantage of chat GPT is you can
tailor this list and get a custom
response just for you so let's stop gen
oh I didn't mean to regenerate let's
stop generating that and I could say
instead how about generate a list of 10
fun and very unique outdoor hobbies for
an American couple in their mid-20s that
most people never heard of which is
extremely specific you wouldn't find
that on Google and with this if we hit
enter we're probably going to find
things that I think really answer that
well so let's see what it comes up so
let's see the responses here disc golf
parkour uh paddle boarding kiteboarding
canineering ax throwing yeah I think it
pretty much did exactly what I was
asking it to do and this again is
something that if you searched on Google
you'd really have to hope that somebody
made a Blog and answered that for you so
you're getting really custom responses
here and really the big point of me
showing you you this right here is to
explain how to get better more tailored
responses for your needs so rather than
just asking give me a list of hobbies
and kind of asking again and again you
want to add as many details in there as
possible so first of all describe what
you're looking for so I'm looking for a
list of 10 fun and unique outdoor
Hobbies right and then describe who you
are like what you actually want so what
it's for it's going to be for American
couples in their mid-20s and we're
looking for things that most people
never heard of the more information you
give it the more accurate your output is
going to be obviously up to a certain
limit but it doesn't actually matter if
you have perfect grammar this could be a
run-on sentence you could have different
problems in there but the more
information you give it generally the
better number three on this list are
long written prompts for emails essays
music poetry legal documents anything
like that and so we can go with an
example right here and we can ask it to
maybe write an email or how about this
one let's just say write a YouTube
comment from my perspective so you about
Michael Brian YouTube video explaining
how to use chat GPT so we're going to
hit enter there and see what it writes
it's probably going to write something
that is approximately the right length
so you can ask it to write a tweet write
an essay write an email write a comment
and generally it does a good job from my
experience of writing the appropriate
link so if you guys want if you're
following along you could do the same
thing and paste your comment below and
uh I don't know whichever comments are
the best I'll put a heart next to them
but you can ask it to make a funny
comment you can ask it to make whatever
but go ahead and do that and leave that
comment down below now on a more
practical note maybe we wanted to write
a template for like a legal document
maybe something that for example a lease
if you are a landlord you want a tenant
like instead of going to LegalZoom or
instead of finding some arbitrary uh
like template online you can essentially
make it or have it make the template for
you so I already kind of pre-wrote this
we can ask it to write a 12-month lease
and once again you want to add as much
detail as possible so 12 month lease
this is the start date we want the
tenant name in there the address in
there the price of the deposit other
things in there and you can also add all
types of weird things that are going to
be integrated smoothly in there rather
than you going in afterwards and just
kind of shoehorning it in so we can have
it for example say that they have to
always keep a pickle in their mailbox
something weird like that and we'll hit
enter and see what it comes up with now
of course as always this is not legal
advice I wouldn't just run with this and
hope that it's a sound legal document
you really want to make sure that you're
Consulting with an attorney but using
this as a template using this as a
springboard can really save you a lot of
time and a lot of effort okay so a
relatively short lease agreement but it
does cover pretty much everything I was
asking it to uh right there but we can
ask it maybe to make it a little bit longer
wow okay so that took a pretty long time
but you can see this is definitely a lot
longer it's definitely a little bit more
fleshed out like we said and you could
copy and paste this into a Word document
and kind of build off of that uh and
make your own lease agreement kind of
with this framework but of course it's
not perfect like I said always consult
your attorney always do all that stuff
but uh you know it's a good springboard
you can go with now other options like I
said when you're actually asking us to
write stuff there's a lot of different
things from emails to essays to music to
poetry a lot of different things so
let's talk about if you wanted to write
an email some other tips I have would be
to give it more descriptions of how you
wanted to write the Style and what you
wanted to write do you want it to be
inspirational do you want it to be
friendly do you want it to be bold and
aggressive and then of course another
really nice thing that I like to do is
ask it to incorporate a quote from
somebody that you think would be pretty
relevant it does a really good job from
my experience of finding relevant quotes
from figures so for example we can go
with something really crazy and say that
let's have it write a motivating email
with the quote from Nelson Mandela
explaining that all employees in the
company will get a 20 pay cut while the
top Executives get a larger Christmas
bonus make it really impo inspiring and positive
positive
like let's just let's see what it does
something like that but okay so here it
says it can't do that I'm gonna go and
create a new chat because I think it can
do this I had to do this exact prompt
earlier and it was able to do that so
let's see what here we go it's doing it
right here in a new chat uh for some
reason it didn't like it when we were
talking about Hobbies but in this new
one let's see what it comes up with so
dear valued customers I hope this email
finds you well I want to take a moment
to share some exciting news with you as
we approach the holiday season we want
to share appreciation uh Hardware blah blah
blah
um okay so it does a pretty good job
right there Nelson Mandela once said the
greatest glory in living lies not in
Never Falling but in Rising every time
we fall so that's a good quote to add in
there I think like they did a good job of
of like
like wow
wow
another Nelson Mandela quote they really
went above and beyond here were two
Nelson Mandela quotes so you can see uh
made it inspiring and it really sugar
coated some like really bad and
aggressive news about giving Executives
higher bonuses at the expense of
employees so that that's kind of an
example there first of all of some of
the limitations that you do have uh with
chat GPT it's not always perfectly
consistent and it will say like hey this
is not a good thing like we we would not
write an unethical or unprofessional
email but then right here it had no
problem doing exactly that and it named
it pay cut and bonus okay so you spend a
little bit of time on that last one
that's really a big portion of what I've
been using chat GPT for uh to write
different things and kind of just use it
as a template use it as a springboard to
make emails and documents and things
like that moving on to number four
though kind of tied in with essays this
would be to answer questions that are a
little bit more complex for example if
you have a difficult physics homework
problem right here I have I copied this
from an MIT quantum physics exam and we
can hit enter now again it's not always
factually accurate but it does a pretty
good job from my experience of answering
questions within the question doing some
math and really giving for the most part
some pretty accurate answers it doesn't
like a good job at least for getting you
started much like you'd see from like
Chegg or you know core or something like
that wow it's really going hard here it
just started Part B all right so there's
a very lengthy and detailed answer to
that question it's been a while since I
took Quantum and I'm not about to verify
if this is correct if you guys want to
verify for me let me know if that looks
right but it can do things like that
different math problems and of course
one thing to note is if you are doing
numerical things that are really based
on multi-digit like a lot of rounding
this does have you know really
substantial roundoff error from my
experience especially if it's doing more
complex problems so always verify the
numbers and do it for yourself just to
make sure you don't have any kind of
error like that moving on to the next
one this is actually feedback prompts
you can give it something and ask for a
feedback so I could for example I just
copy and pasted an essay from like way
back when I was in college took this
dance class and had to like write an
essay about it we can say critique this
essay I'm going to copy and paste that
so critique this essay and out of a
colon and I pasted the entire essay
it'll read the essay and it'll tell me
what it thinks about the essay so it
kind of gives you a little bit of
summary it makes you feel good it says
oh it's well written it was not well
written I promise but it'll give you
some other things it'll say for example
where is it here we go here a couple of
areas of improvement it could be clear
more structure and organized it could
have more personal experience it gives
me some examples which is also really
nice of what I could add to that and
overall it tells me effective essay but
you could add a couple things and it
could be a little bit better so that is
something you could do if you already
wrote an essay and you want this to
criticize your essay and make you a
little bit better you could do this with
emails as well you write an email and
put it in here and say critique this
email it'll tell you you're a little bit
bold you're a little bit friendly
whatever I I think it's kind of nice
just to kind of bounce ideas off of
something else moving on to number six
these are modification prompts so rather
than criticizing an essay you could give
it something and ask it to translate to
another language you can ask it to
lengthen something you can ask it to
paraphrase something by shortening it or
of course you could ask it you could
give it something and say reword this so
that it is not plagiarized and not that
I would ever recommend doing that write
your own work of course but it's
something that it's really powerful and
interesting that you're able to do that
if you have your own work and you want
to reword it a little bit differently
you could just give it something and say
reword this so all of those I think are
really powerful and interesting and of
course to do any of those it's really
pretty self-explanatory really all you
say is uh reword this and then put a
colon and just like paste the whole
thing or you could say translate this
from English to Spanish put a colon
paste the whole thing paraphrase uh
whatever you want to do lengthen this is
another one that you can really add and
so for example if I wanted to lengthen
because they now paraphrase that assay
and so it's going to be uh
it's going to take the entire essay and
kind of boil it down into some sad
little pathetic thing about me and that
that required dance class I took senior
year of college and we can ask you to do
it even more
it's a very long sentence
that's a very long sentence so that
that's a bit of a run-on sentence I'd
give you that one there now we could say
now we can translate that response to
Spanish and it's going to translate the
paraphrase of the paraphrase to Spanish
so it really I don't know I think that's
pretty cool something that you can do
maybe spark some ideas and and maybe
you'll find a use for this now the next
one are actually guided prompts so this
is something that could be like a step
by step you could say how do I make a
certain recipe would be a good example
you could say how do I use certain
software how do I build something so we
could say like how to how to format a
Word document
in ml in MLA something like that and
it'll tell us how to do that it'll give
us some guidelines so tell us the first
thing to do second thing to do double
spacing margins one inch blah blah all
that stuff like that and so it's really
useful to have like a nice list that it
gives you in you know right here you can
ask it how to do it exactly and another
example right here this is one that I've
actually used quite a bit when you have
like some ingredients in your fridge but
you didn't go grocery shopping for the
week yet then you can just tell it what
you have and ask for some different
dinner ideas so if I just say I've got
onions tomatoes garlic beef spaghetti
squash and other ingredients like kind
of generic other ingredients what can I
make so that way we're not restricting
to just this I'm okay with getting like
one or two ingredients but I don't want
to buy everything for dinner we could
say what can we make with this I'll hit
enter and it can give me some different
ideas as well as a full recipe on how to
actually make that dinner
now number eight is very similar to
number seven we're starting to chat for
this one and this is rather than
modifying text it's actually extracting
data from text so if I just say like I
have a big paragraph or something I
found like an article and I just wanted
to extract the data for me and give me
the answer very very quickly I could say
when was the first Model
and then paste the article right there
and it should be able to read the whole
thing and tell me the first Model T was
made on October 1st 1908 which is
exactly what we're seeing in there again
really cool but we could actually do
even more than that and now say now save
that as a
now output that as a python variable
variable
now we can do even more than that say
right there so it's cool it's going to
be really useful to do something like
that if you have a lot of data or a
really long paragraph and you just want
to like you're doing some code you want
to get things quickly that's a cool easy
way to actually go about doing that and
extract data from a larger data set
that's kind of a more unique situation
not everyone's going to be using number
eight here but speaking of code that
brings me into the next one number nine
is the ability to actually write code
with chat GPT this is really powerful it
does really I mean from my experience it
does a great job and we can have it do
all types of different things so for one
let's go with this example right here
that I already wrote down this knows
like for example if we want to use
Python we can ask it to maybe open
documents like Word documents convert
them to a PDF and then save them to a
subfolder within that parent folder so
if I just go and say write a python
script to open document files convert
them to a PDF and then save them in the
subfolder named Mike is cool of course
within the parent folder and then do
that so the more information you give it
the more there's going to be any actual
code at the end otherwise it will have
like for example I didn't say what the
the parent folder was called and so it's
going to have little quotes there and
I'll have to go and actually input that
later myself but it does like it really
does all the back work for you so right
here you can see where it says users
users documents that's the folder path
that I will actually have to do but it
does a good job of commenting out what
you actually have to do so right there
set the path folder right so that's
we're gonna have to do uh it tells me
what it did it Loops through so I don't
have to change that it created the
folder I didn't have to do anything with
that and so all we have to do here is
copy and paste this into python uh add
you know the file path right there and
then run it and it should be able to do
exactly what we wanted to do it's going
to open Word documents it's going to
convert them to PDFs it's going to save
them to a subfolder and that's really
cool it's going to Loop through that so
if you have like 500 Word documents and
you don't know python at all but you
want something that automatically does
it for you you could have this write
that little script right there run it on
page python you just saved yourself
whatever time it takes to convert 500
Word Documents To PDFs I assume that
would take hours right I mean unless you
did it like this it takes seconds or
minutes like this okay so let's open a
new chat now if you don't use Python
there's a lot of different languages you
can use basically anything you go to
stack Overflow for in many situations
you could just ask it on here it can
also debug code as well so if you input
your code and you say like what's wrong
with this it can usually do some
debugging for you of course it's not
perfect longer more complicated code can
be even more difficult but for basic
things it is really cool of course we
can also say we can ask it to run things
for us so for example if we say write a
calculated all prime numbers under 100
that's something that again if you if
you don't know how to use Python if you
don't want to go and actually run the
actual code you can ask it to do things
for you right here and so it's going to
write the code for us then we're going
to copy the code and we're going to ask
it to actually run that code for us so
there we go so we can copy the code we
can oh actually it's going to do it
right now I already did that
okay it doesn't always do that sometimes
you have to go and say run the python
code and then you paste it but it looks
like it already did it for us
okay and then lastly number 10 before I
get into two little bonuses on how to
modify uh your actual request here
number 10 is actually just using this as
a conversational bot this is great for
mental health or just you know if you
want to talk to somebody it's really
nice to have that you can also ask it
all types of different questions you
could say like it's good to bounce ideas
off this you could just say like I'm
but I hurt my bicep
write something like that
so I can give you some advice which is useful
so it's going to tell me other muscle
groups I can use again kind of cool just
to talk to this and of course as I
mentioned this could be really powerful
for anybody who's in a dark place and
needs help with their mental health uh
some people I know it's like
intimidating to go and find a therapist
or something and so while this is no
replacement for therapy it could be a
good start that could really help people
get out of a really dark area now there
are two things that can modify how you
get responses that I wanted to point out
the first one if I ask something like
explain String Theory it's it's a very
complicated concept so you're going to
be getting a pretty complicated answer
down here now I could say instead now
explain it to me
because they now explain to me like I'm
five years old and it can give me the
response again uh but in more basic
terms so you can ask it to re-answer it
but add another modifier on there and
say it do it like this do it as if I'm
five years old do it as if I were this
person uh and do things like slightly
differently so you can say like here you
can see a much simpler much more uh
fundamental and basic example or
explanation of what that is and then the
second way you can modify things is kind
of similar but going back to that
writing thing I was talking about before
when you're writing emails writing
essays writing whatever paragraphs not
only can you add quotes in there you can
tell it what style to write in so rather
than just writing in a generic style you
can say write things as if you were like
Quentin Tarantino for example so if I
wanted to write a tweet I'm actually
just I already wrote this down write a
tweet about iPhones but do it like you
are Quentin Tarantino and you're
dehydrated in a desert so we'll hit
enter and see what it actually comes up with
with
um you know this is QT and I'm dehydrated
okay so this is
that's yeah so there you go so that's
that's basically a tweet right there
from Quentin Tarantino let's see what
else they can do do it again
um and lost in the desert part all right
so let's do this again uh one last time
I could do this all day long this is
just like this is what I do I love just
like having chat GPT do these like
ridiculous like tweets and stuff like
that sometimes I'll share them on
Twitter you can follow me and you'll see
these every now and then
um but okay so those are the 10
different command styles with chat GPT
hopefully you found this video very
helpful and informational so that you
can now start using chat GPT now you set
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