On 4/20/23 I attended a fascinating webinar on Chat GBT as presented by Luigi Iacobellis, tech enthusiast, training professional, and YouTube content creator, and hosted by Meetup Live (see program description).
What is Chat GBT?: It is a free artificial intelligence app to provide replies to natural language queries, based on both text or number inputs. Launched in November 2022, the software is currently the most powerful such consumer AI app on the market, and Microsoft has partnered with the founding company OpenAI to integrate Chat GBT into MSFT’s Bing browser and other software. This AI app is bolstered by behind-the-scenes human feedback and the app’s own ability to “learn” through regenerating responses and building on threaded conversations. Key Tip: the more detailed and descriptive your query the better the Chat GBT response.
General utility: ChatGBT is Ideal for brainstorming, summarizing content, and even analyzing Excel numerical data. Uses are for a wide variety of professional queries as well as personal applications such as meal planning!
Limitations:
–Its knowledge base is current only up to September 2021
–At times it can produce innacurrate responses
–Sometimes it generates biased responses.
My own testing: It was very easy to setup and then use Chat GBT. I submitted two queries – one about the significance of the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolution (I am a “ringer” as a history buff! – see my related Blog Post), and a second about the importance of WordPress (my area of IT business expertise). The software provided generally accurate responses on both topics, as well as to follow-up questions in each Chat thread.
Use cases for DCWebRevolution Clients: Here are some specific situations for small business and non-profit clients where I think Chat GBT might be helpful (with the understanding that its results need to be checked, and complemented with other tools and user brainpower!):
- To help generate outlines or rough drafts for blog Posts or social media blurbs
- To assist a presenter in composing a summary webinar description
- Use as a complementary external platform for webinar presenter or attendees to brainstorm around a given topic
- To summarize and organize raw organizational data about a small business’s or non-profit’s past year accomplishments, and reformat such information in the form of an Annual Report to investors or a board of directors. Ditto for composing a CEO letter focusing on goals and targets for the coming year.
- As a research tool for small business or non-profits to check out competing or complementary goods or services in their market space, using Chat GBT as an alternative tool to Google Search. In his Meetup Webinar, Luigi gave a similar example where he asked the app to provide bibliographic summaries and links of top non-fiction books in a given area.
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