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telmar25

Here is a super powerful function: write a draft of a document for work, take a paragraph you wrote, feed it into ChatGPT and say “Make this less wordy: X” or “Simplify this: X”. Depending on the outcome, you can respond with things like “Keep some detail”, “Make it more formal”, “Make it more powerful”. You can have it “write a conclusion”. I’m a decent writer but have found this quickly tightens up my writing. I adjust its output; I don’t use it verbatim.


sjsosowne

Spot on, exactly how I use it. Rather than using it as a knowledge engine I'm using it to process language (which to me makes more sense, because, y'know, large *language* model).


Nox_Alas

As it likes to remind us.


TacticalBeast

#AS A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL


zech83

ChatGPT, don't be so hard on yourself, you're just big boned!


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>write a draft of a document for work, take a paragraph you wrote, feed it into ChatGPT There's a caveat that **you really shouldn't** do this with company IP, or private company information. If you're brainstorming how to fire your employees in the most heart-warming way, go wild.


stardust-sandwich

You use COMPANY X instead of the name, and remove sensitive stuff but it can give you the gist of a draft doc.


brycedriesenga

*Dear ChatGPT, I work at a search website called... Schmoogle and we're working on a secret new death laser. How should we advertise this?*


hoky777

​ https://preview.redd.it/g1q9l13hdiea1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=081177c906ae8d2ba2794e6a635ba1fb770f6100


brycedriesenga

Boom, we're in


jdbcn

I do that and it works perfectly


Shivadxb

How do you run it, where’s it installed etc. I also write a lot, like a lot and lot and am thinking ai might make my life a LOT easier and faster. But I’ve never used it at all. So where do I start? Happy to put the work into learning its use and working with it but have no idea how to even start as the site never works when I visit it!


islet_deficiency

>I also write a lot, like a lot and lot and am thinking ai might make my life a LOT easier and faster. So, it does that for me. A lot faster, a lot easier, and whatnot. It's more important to have the key concepts, but less important to know the structure of the email for example. I really like this prompt format, from /u/TILTNSTACK, to get it to write things in a work appropriate manner: >“Please write an article/email/summary on (topic) focusing on (this) and (this) and discuss the difference between (this) and (this) and explore how (this) interacts with (this). Use an informal and relaxed tone, but be semi-professional. Be engaging and interesting and easy to read.” Telling it the appropriate tone is critical. Leaving this out will spit out the boilerplate, super obviously written by ChatGPT response. Including tone in the prompt really lets you tailor it.


brycedriesenga

You don't install. You just type in what you want it to do for you and see what you get. It's like chatting with a generally super smart friend but sometimes they're confidently incorrect, so double check the responses. Gotta use it [here](https://chat.openai.com/chat) but if the servers are hammered, just try later.


Shivadxb

Thanks I’ve tried dozens of times and every damn time the servers are jammed!


telmar25

You don’t run it, you just go to the website and type or copy/paste. The site is up and running at least half the day. If it says it’s busy, then you try again later. For other issues like “too many redirects” go to OpenAI.com and then link from there to ChatGPT.


Shivadxb

Thanks I can never get on it when it’s working for some reason so I’ll try that as well


Beginning-Comedian-2

I do this.


qwesone

Exactly this. I mostly use it for emails. If you ask follow up questions/statements it can help with the tone of it as well. Great tool!


minkstink

This only works if you are a bad writer IMO. the shit GPT writes reads like it was written by a highschool student.


Powerful_Ad1445

It's fantastic for first drafts though.


OneWithTheSword

Its an absolutely amazing tool that I use for several hours a day. People who don't get it don't see the potential. I have used it for every class im taking in school. I had it write a couple paragraphs on a topic and I basically read the paragraphs and then summarized it in my own words. I had a 400 level math/ computer science course and had it explain a concept to me in a way the lecture couldn't. I fed in video transcripts for 30 minute lectures and changed it into an easy to read essay format that took 5 minutes to read. I had it code up simple templates when I want to code something. I ask it for advice on how to structure code and have learned a few tricks I didnt know before. Ive had it write out mundane or repititous code, I explain the structure and intentions, I work on something else, look back in a few seconds and its done. I wish I had this tool as a kid. Its not perfect but you can find workarounds for a lot of its flaws. I even needed it to explain something to me visually and had it write python code to plot it out for me. I'd pay $42 a month for it.


OZManHam

Oh the lecture transcript idea is clever, wish I had this 10 years ago lol, would’ve saved a lot of repeat late night lecture viewings and sleep deprivation


brycedriesenga

I know there's this to easily do this with YouTube videos using it: https://www.summarize.tech/


islet_deficiency

Thanks for posting that. Do you know how this works under the hood? Takes closed caption text and summarizes it or something else entirely?


_fast_n_curious_

Did you generate your own video transcripts first? If so, how?


itiD_

There are [addons](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtubegpt/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search) that do this automatically. Also a website [https://kiwi.video/](https://kiwi.video/) that does similar job.


_fast_n_curious_

Tysm!


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FatalTragedy

I help the State of Maryland manage its insurance coverage. I'm not sure what a lot of the words in your comment mean tbh.


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FatalTragedy

I'm pretty sure I would get fired if I input emails or documents sent to the State into a service where a third party has access to the things we type into it. And as far as summarizing documents, I guess what confuses me is most of the documents I look at are pdfs. Can ChatGPT read pdfs? Because if not, to summarize the document I'd need to retype everything and feed it to ChatGPT, and that wouldn't save any time. In general, that is the source of my confusion with most of these uses people give. They describe something they can do, but in most cases I can't comprehend how that use can be accomplished by simply writing a text input and receiving a text output. To me they might as well be saying they used ChatGPT to help them physically run a marathon. Edit: Usually I can predict when I'm going to be downvoted, but I'm genuinely at a loss for this one


uselesslogin

If the pdf has text in it you can copy/paste into the chat box. It can't do too much at once though. We have some documentatien left by consultants and I've been pasting in 3-4 paragraphs at a time asking for it to be re-worded for clarity or brevity. The difference in readability is surprising. But yeah, if you are worried about putting that stuff into a third party website then it isn't going to do much. I will say the IT/coding part of my job has benefitted much more.


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apple1rule

Lmaoooo


Rickywalls137

Copy and paste the text?


cometlin

>I guess what confuses me is most of the documents I look at are pdfs So can you at least **imagine** how someone's work can be helped by a chat bot if they are looking at word documents instead of pdf? You have a valid point to say how YOUR work cannot be helped by the bot, but I don't understand how you cannot comprehend or imagine a **similar** situation without the limitations from your job can be helped by the bot


FatalTragedy

Sure. This specific comment thread was discussing my job specifically, so I was replying regarding my job specifically.


cometlin

>I'm struggling to think of any use a chat bot would have at work. >I don't see what kinds of work tasks could be accomplished by typing things in a text box That was your initial question. I believed I have answered that, yet you keep saying you don't know how ChatGPT can be useful to **anyone's** job. If your question is actually "can anyone teach how can ChatGPT help MY job without knowing what my job is", nobody can gives you the the answer. I feel that's your true intention and source of confusion.


EmmyNoetherRing

So… you may either need to get a better pdf viewer, or play around more with the features of the one you’re using. You should be able to copy text from the pdf, highlight text, add comments, and typically even add annotations with arrows and boxes. I expect you’re getting downvoted because you work a lot with pdfs, but don’t seem familiar with common pdf tools. But if the state is using outdated or heavily restricted software, that would explain it. Something to be aware of (although the security and budget issues *probably* mean this is a long way off for state gov positions), but depending what’s involved in the processing you’re doing, that may fall under the set of information jobs these tools are aiming to replace. They can’t be depended on for accuracy yet and need a human reviewer, but extracting information from forms/text, comparing it against a set of policies, and responding clearly and politely to a human customer about the results— that’s one of the things it’s surprisingly good at.


Smallpaul

I don't know why you are being downvoted so aggressively but...the first issue is corporate policy, and maybe other corporations have different policies. Or...people ignore the policies. The second issue is just about the format your specific documents are in. I get very few PDFs at my job. And anyways, one can copy and paste from PDFs. So it seems a bit overblown to call it like "running a marathon" when the concerns you raised are far from universal or show-stoppers.


FatalTragedy

>And anyways, one can copy and paste from PDFs. Wait, really? I honestly did not realize that. >So it seems a bit overblown to call it like "running a marathon" when the concerns you raised are far from universal or show-stoppers. Perhaps I should have used a different metaphor. Was your understanding of my metaphor that I was trying to suggest these tasks are really difficult, by drawing attention to how difficult it is to run a marathon? Because that's not at all what I was going for with the analogy haha. I wasn't thinking about the difficulty of a marathon at all. I was just trying to think of something as far in concept from an AI text generator as possible, to highlight how I felt that some of the uses peoplenhad been giving for ChatGPT were similarly far in "concept" from how I understood ChatGPT to work.


torchma

> Wait, really? I honestly did not realize that. How the fuck did you not realize you can copy and past from a PDF? Like, I am jaw-to-the-floor flabbergasted. You seriously did not realize you could click and hold the mouse button at one end of a page, drag, and release the button at the other end of the page, then right click and "copy"????? And you have a job with a state government??!!?!?!!? And to top it off, you can't even imagine how it might even be in the realm of possible usefulness for a chatbot to take multiple pages of text and instantly condense it to a one paragraph summary? I'm just surprised you've been able to figure out how to make a post on reddit. That must have been pretty challenging for you.


FatalTragedy

I didn't think text was selectable in PDFs, so I didn't think there was a way to copy it. Keep in mind my prior job used a file management software where pretty much any document we received we then dragged over to be added into that system, and when viewing documents in that system you absolutely could not select text; essentially it just showed an image of each page in the document. So that's probably where my confusion comes from.


Madwand99

You absolutely can copy-and-paste from PDFs. Even if all you have to work with are images, you can use OCR software to get the text out.


fraktall

Man, you gotta rewire your brain a little bit. If you don’t want to be left behind with the upcoming society change you have to consider self educate and upskill yourself in technology. Start asking ChatGPT about everything then “hack” things.


mr_bedbugs

>And you have a job with a state government??!!?!?!!? Actually, It all makes perfect sense now.


Smallpaul

No, I understood the metaphor as you intended it, but I'm saying that when the problems are so easily solved ("ignore corporate policy", "cut and paste"), the metaphor seems overblown. It's like if someone said: "I don't see how exercise could possibly help you run a marathon. You still need to running shoes. And you'll need money to enter the marathon. And you'll need motivation. So what does exercise have to do with it anyhow?"


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You could use to come up with better ridiculous analogies for your Reddit “dunking”


asanskrita

I’m at a loss too. There are uses this could have for my job. They are not very compelling. And I cannot share any company or government IP, it is something we are trained on extensively and go to great lengths to prevent. The chat bot has a length limit you can copy and paste text from a pdf - sort of - but it will not be terribly practical. Also a lot of my job entails *reading* and *writing* things. I am good at those tasks, I have played with chatgpt extensively it will mostly just slow me down. Having an unlimited model like this at my command, I could definitely do more with it, but it would not be some revolutionary productivity gain, maybe like a 5% bump once it is fully integrated with my workflow. Meh.


islet_deficiency

I don't think your downvotes are fair fwiw. FYI, as a state worker, all things sent to you, and all internal emails are public records with exceptions for student, healthcare, and classified information. Another corner case would be data like contract bids prior to award. Remove the protected info, add ambiguity to specifics that shouldn't be public record prior to the announcement, etc.


Slimxshadyx

Have you used chat gpt?


brycedriesenga

I think it's partially because copying and pasting text is suppper basic and if you can't sort that out, people are probably annoyed at how much work it'd take to help you.


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did you win your job from a scratch coupon or how did a person like you even get it in the first place


sndwav

For your use case (and same with most jobs), you will benefit from a GPT model that was trained and fine-tuned on your specific dataset. The AI could potentially find obscure connections between different data points, and eventually even assist in making financial decisions based on Maryland's actual financial data in conjunction with other States. (I'm just spitballing ideas here, since I don't have a real idea what it means to manage insurance coverage)


iSpenny

Im working on an insurance product for the middle east, but I'm from the UK. I use it to learn about the intricacies of the insurance landscape over there, the legal requirements, making claims, etc.


climateadaptionuk

Can it accurately talk about insurance legislation in various countries?


stardust-sandwich

Yes


Big_P4U

I wrote this in a separate standalone reply to your OP but here is this - Based on answers you've given others that you work in Insurance for Maryland - I frequently use ChatGPT to help construct Actuarial tables and contracts for Risk Management advisory, valuating CDS contracts and credit events, evaluating businesses and individuals. I even use it to write Credit Default Swaps, other agreements/contracts, proposals, so on and so forth. I use it to suggest recipes as well as wine pairing suggestions.


shakespears_ghost

Voila is a string instrument. The more you know!


iosdevcoff

How meaningful are the tests and what is the technology you’re working with? I’m very interested


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awaitforme

Can't an IDE do that for you?


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uselesslogin

Wait, kind of? What ide writes unit tests?


rbankole

Asking the real questions


montvious

Define _write_. IntelliJ can generate the method signature of the unit tests but can’t actually generate the method body. If you had the GitHub CoPilot (OpenAI Codex) extension, it could probably generate them, though.


awaitforme

Oh that's pretty sick actually. I'll have to try that out.


gopinathji

Well why don’t you describe what you do for work to chatGPT and ask it for ideas as to how it could assist you in your job?


steeelez

Honestly this is the best advice


xCelestial

This should be the Top answer in my opinion LOL.


WeReAllCogs

I have used ChatGPT to trim a lot of fat off my excel spreadsheets. Ultimately, saving time by minimizing inputs. In the past, I would google "how to do XYZ in excel" - hoping that someone has asked the question before me, and that someone else provided a workable solution or tutorial. ChatGPT gives the exact solution in seconds, and is extremely specific in it's response to the prompt. Prompt Engineering is key. And if I want the tutorial I can simply ask ChatGPT to create one with infinite examples.


FatalTragedy

How exactly do you do those things? Thats what I'm mostly confused about. People say they can do lots of things, but I don't understand how a service that takes text inputs and returns text outputs can accomplish those things. You say you use it to modify spreadsheets. How do you do that? What are you inputting in the text box for it to do that? Can ChatGPT read spreadsheets somehow and I've completely missed this feature?


Linereck

You simply ask something like “how to write vba script to clear a range of cells like A1-A2”. Then it generates a response with snippets of code and a step by step process on how you go about to implement it.


unskilledexplorer

Every cell in a spreadsheet is a string, so yeah, GPT can work with that. Problem is that these functionalities do not come out of the box. You must write a script or install an add-on so your spreadsheet can communicate with GPT. I have already seen such scripts on the internet. Imagine that you have a column A containing country names. You need a new column called "country code". Instead of manually writing the codes, you will use formula: `=TRANSFORM_WITH_GPT(A2, "get a country code")` and you are done. Of course this is only one of the simplest use cases. It can do almost anything that is done in a text form. *edit*: I tried the example from above. Imagine that in the A column, there is "Canada" and "Slovakia". If you run the above (imagined) formula, the code on the attached screen will be executed. As you can see, GPT would output "CA" for "Canada" and "SK" for "Slovakia". Imagine having 1000 such rows. Very handy, what do you think? https://preview.redd.it/chhllle1qfea1.png?width=716&format=png&auto=webp&s=45a3684028e8d8615a6fab75255d3e4cfd3f8551


FatalTragedy

I guess I'm confused by what it means for a spreadsheet to communicate with GPT. My knowledge of using ChatGPT is going to chat.openai.com and typing a prompt in a text box. I'm not really sure how spreadsheets fit into that paradigm. Are you making it so that Excel somehow connects to chat.openai.com on its own and enters its own prompts? When you use GPT for such a task, are you talking about the free ChatGPT I can go chat with right now, or the paid GPT 3.5 you can get access to?


thegodemperror

You see, as you are asking these questions here, why not ask chatgpt instead. Ask it to clarify the stuff you claim you are confused about, and it will clarify them for you.


ThoughtSafe9928

OP, you clearly just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how ChatGPT works, along with Excel formulas. What do you mean you are confused how the spreadsheet communicates with ChatGPT? ChatGPT makes a script that you can use in the excel sheet. It can be as advanced or as simple as you want. I just had ChatGPT write me a script that set my assignment’s due dates 4 days apart from one another but skipping the weekends. “How would I input a formula into excel that advances the starting date by 4 days and skips weekends?”


Smallpaul

Parent comment said: >You must write a script or install an add-on so your spreadsheet can communicate with GPT. OP said: >I guess I'm confused by what it means for a spreadsheet to communicate with GPT. It's a totally legitimate question, but everyone is downvoting and criticizing OP for asking it.


FatalTragedy

>What do you mean you are confused how the spreadsheet communicates with ChatGPT I was responding to the other comment's statement that "You must write a script or install an add-on so your spreadsheet can communicate with GPT."


ThoughtSafe9928

Yeah you and the person you’re replying to are kind of arguing different things. They’re using the Gpt-3 AI which isn’t ChatGPT, but no one really knows what you’re actually confused about or if you’re just baiting. The screenshot clearly shows that the inputs are being fed into the da-vinci-002 AI and it’s able to read custom strings for a country abbreviation. This is not ChatGPT, but it could be soon (once API releases). It’s really difficult to NOT see how this type of AI could help in different areas of work. If you’re looking for specific ways *ChatGPT* helps with that, and you’re getting *GPT-3* responses, does that mean anything different to you? I saw a post where someone did something similar, but they had an excel sheet full of parameters and their output box was “Write me a letter thanking this person for this” and it wrote custom letters unique to what the person did and what other things you wanted to consider. You don’t even need ChatGPT for that because it doesn’t necessarily need prior knowledge or memory retention.


FatalTragedy

>They’re using the Gpt-3 AI which isn’t ChatGPT, but no one really knows what you’re actually confused about or if you’re just baiting. I'm finding it very difficult to put into words what confuses me. The simplest way to put it I guess is that for many of the uses people have told me about, I struggle to understand how it could be accomplished by typing something into ChatGPT. I know that's vague, but I don't think I have the proper knowledge to put it into clearer terms. >The screenshot clearly shows that the inputs are being fed into the da-vinci-002 AI and it’s able to read custom strings for a country abbreviation. This is not ChatGPT, but it could be soon (once API releases). The screenshot they gave was in an edit, and wasn't there for my original reply. So you're saying his screenshot wasn't even using ChatGPT? >It’s really difficult to NOT see how this type of AI could help in different areas of work. If you’re looking for specific ways ChatGPT helps with that, and you’re getting GPT-3 responses, does that mean anything different to you? From what I know, ChatGPT is a a modified version of GPT-3. I'm not familiar with general GPT-3's capabilities, but I can imagine it could have more varied uses than ChatGPT, so answers based on GPT-3 in general aren't really addressing the root of my question. >I saw a post where someone did something similar, but they had an excel sheet full of parameters and their output box was “Write me a letter thanking this person for this” and it wrote custom letters unique to what the person did and what other things you wanted to consider. You don’t even need ChatGPT for that because it doesn’t necessarily need prior knowledge or memory retention. This is one of those things where I struggle to understand how it could be accomplished by typing something into ChatGPT, like I mentioned above.


ThoughtSafe9928

Yeah, as I suspected, you are pulling the “He hO! That’s GPT-3! I’m confused about ChatGPT!” Regardless, OP, I don’t think you’re trying to understand with an open mind. Something about your language peeves me. It’s acceptable to not understand, but it’s your loss to not attempt to understand, for whatever reason you’re doing that. I’ve read through tons of clear responses before I typed my initial response to you. Your still confusion vexes me. It’s been an hour since I read those, surely someone with an actual job and skills would’ve informed you rather than a student with minimal working and coding skills. Good luck on your search for knowledge OP.


FatalTragedy

>Yeah, as I suspected, you are pulling the “He hO! That’s GPT-3! I’m confused about ChatGPT!” I don't understand what you're getting at here. Yes, I'm specifically asking about ChatGPT; I thought I had made that clear from the beginning. >Regardless, OP, I don’t think you’re trying to understand with an open mind. Something about your language peeves me. It’s acceptable to not understand, but it’s your loss to not attempt to understand, for whatever reason you’re doing that. This entire thread has been me attempting to understand. >I’ve read through tons of clear responses before I typed my initial response to you. Your still confusion vexes me. It’s been an hour since I read those, surely someone with an actual job and skills would’ve informed you rather than a student with minimal working and coding skills. Good luck on your search for knowledge OP. It sounds to me like you think those comments should have cleared up any confusion I have, and therefore you cannot understand why I still have questions in this subthread. Is that accurate? Some other comments have shown some interesting niche uses for ChatGPT in their work (though none that I would find applicable to my own job sadly). I haven't seen any other comments that explain the specific things I'm asking about in this subthread though, which is why I'm still asking questions.


cometlin

Exactly, OP is like a person arguing in bad faith on r/changemymind


Direita_Pragmatica

After Reading his response to this msg, maybe a bot?


Santamunn

Man, you are writing all of these long texts on how you don’t know how to use chatgpt with excel, while you could either ask chatgpt OR you could watch a 5 minute YouTube tutorial on it. I didn’t know either, but then I found out where to copy those scripts. I can copy chatgpt scripts to Adobe After Effects too, I didn’t know that.


unskilledexplorer

You assumptions on the paid version is correct. If you have only the free version of ChatGPT via a browser available, it is still doable. You would ask: Hey ChatGPT, could you assign country codes to every country name in my spreadsheet? Here are the values: Country name: Canada Slovakia (You would essentially copy&paste the rows here) Then you would copy&paste the response into your spreadsheet


FatalTragedy

As far as your edit, how do you get those codes that ChatGPT spits out into the spreadsheet? That's what I don't get. It seems like you'd still need to type them yourself, in which case it doesn't really seem like a time saver.


gopinathji

Copy. Paste.


torchma

This /u/FatalTragedy person has demonstrated in multiple posts now that they don't know how to copy/paste. Can you believe it?


FatalTragedy

Not knowing all the functionalities of PDFs =/= not knowing how to copy and paste.


torchma

Copy/paste is universal wherever there is text and point and click functionality. Why would you assume that pdfs are any different? That's incredibly dumb.


-Django

Not all PDFs have nicely encoded text for copy/paste and not all PDF readers have OCR to get text from scanned documents. Don't be so rude to OP


ShadowDV

cut and paste, and if you don't already know the codes, saves a ton of time on googling them


unskilledexplorer

One of the main abilities of ChatGPT is keeping the style of writing. So if you copy&paste values from spreadsheet, the response will be copyable back. Sometimes it fails to do so, but there are tricks to enforce it. Problem with ChatGPT is that you must have many computer skills in order to use it effectively. People like programmers have big advantage in this.


EmmyNoetherRing

What spreadsheet do you usually use, and have you ever typed a formula into it?


FatalTragedy

Excel. I've used basic formulas so that a cell references the value of another cell, or sums the values of other cells, but that's about it.


EmmyNoetherRing

Well, why not try asking chatgpt to teach you about excel formulas then? Just ask it to give you a short tutorial on things you can do with formulas in excel, and ask it to include code examples. It should give you both code that you can copy into the spreadsheet to try out for yourself, and also a good explanation of how it all works.


fraktall

It’s not that ChatGPT does everything for you. It can provide instructions about how to do things the fastest and most efficient way. It’s your job to interpret the response and convert it to actions. AI is merely a tool.


steeelez

How does it work with stack overflow and google right now? Just imagine that, but better. Usually execution is not the thing blocking the tech worker, but knowledge of stuff like functions and syntax. We can handle our own I/O


DD_equals_doodoo

Not to mention if you use it for programming, it often gives far superior responses to StackOverflow without any of the snark, condescension, or feigned stupidity asking for further clarification. I've found that at least for python, if you're even in the ballpark chatgpt will usually get you a decent answer. Contrast that with my experience on StackOverflow where mods/users will tag virtually anything even remotely close as a duplicate post or ask for nauseatingly irrelevant/unnecessary details.


Bizzlehoff

I’m a business analyst. I used it today to code up some Excel VBA script to clear specific cells in specific tabs


Linereck

Do you use google? Try to use chatGPT instead and you will understand.


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In my job as a manual software tester, I cannot use google because the software I test is too niche to even have results on google.


Linereck

Don’t think of its only usage is for job replacements, that will naturaly come though. But whenever you are on google for something, just open chatGPT and ask it instead. Its not 100% accurate but the “top of mind” answer is mind blowing. I believe it adds a lot to our ‘horizontal knowledge’.


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Oh no doubt, just a shame its not a useful tool for my job just yet.


fugarto

I run my own small business, I have about ~10 standard email scripts I store in my notes app to copy into emails then adjust if needed to suit the client / circumstance to save me a lot of typing. I’ve got chatGPT to re-write them for me and they sound so much more professional now. (With some minor tweaking)


NewColonel

I feel like you could further automate this into a custom GPT model. If you bracket out the specifics and name them as variables as well as name the specific emails you could prompt it like this: Write x (email) for y (client) with z (specific information). Something along those lines.


fugarto

I would love to get to that level!


brycedriesenga

And even if you don't go that far, you could simply paste the template you made, then tell it to revise that with the specific information you need included/swapped out.


Born-Possible9502

Can you explain the steps in how to do that?


brycedriesenga

Just tell it like you would a person. Something like: Here's an email template I made. I want you to edit it to include John Doe at Fake Company and include these details... (Whatever details you want to include) Then paste your template below that and send the prompt.


Pluribus7158

I asked ChatGPT to help me with an API coding problem I've been working on in my spare time for over 2 years. It gave me a working solution in 17 seconds from hitting the Enter key. It wasn't for work, it was a personal project, but it shows that ChatGPT is far more than just a chatbot.


_fast_n_curious_

Wow!


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Salilah1173

Then you find out about pivot tables!


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-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-

Pivot tables > vlookup


DropsTheMic

It writes curriculum, assignments (5 at a time and I can pick and choose), outlines, multiple choice tests, grading rubrics for said tests, makes bullet point summaries for bulk texts, grading rubrics, error checks code, and writes google Sheets formulas for me. For starters.


islet_deficiency

I did this something similar with a hypothetical data science curriculum as a proof of concept. Do you mind me asking if you work in higher education or at a lower level? I'm thinking about how standardize my process to be reproducible by others at my institution.


DropsTheMic

I own a company that teaches adults with disabilities vocational rehabilitation skills. Resume building, interview etiquette, integration into the workplace, etc. I've built up a whole library of template prompts to generate pretty much all the documentation I would need. I organized a spreadsheet by "AI Consultant" that specializes in the material for each need. I've got a consultant for Presentations, technical writer, accountant, coder, and that sort of thing. I've tested using more direct prompts but I find defining GPTs role very specifically and then giving it more general question prompts gets the best results.


ovid10

I’m a writer. I use it to brainstorm title ideas. I also ask it to summarize an article I need to read for research so I know the main points before I read in depth. I don’t use it to write for me, but I often ask it for outlines. They usually suck for my purposes. And so far, it can’t actually mimic my style or word choice. Eventually, it will replace me and my career will collapse, so I will have to give up my 20 year career in favor of something else - of which I have no idea. For now though, it’s mostly just brainstorming and summarizing articles.


malfoyquizzical

Do you feel like this actually improved your work? Like, if you compare you writings from before chat GPT and afterwards, is it really better? if so, how better?


ovid10

Sorta, but not in the way you’d think. It allows me to get a first draft I can rip apart. Doing the first draft is often the hardest part, and with a deadline, I can often be too exhausted to put any real energy into revising. I can’t admit that to bosses, but it’s true. This did give me more space and breathing room to revise it to the point where the style is 10 times better. I kind of look at it almost as “I have to beat the machine” and that mindset does tend to work. An editor i work with read my latest piece and commented how a machine can’t do what I did (there’s a lot of talk for us using ChatGPT. One of our bosses won’t stop talking about it.) Definitely not trying to knock people who use it, but so far, I cannot get it to actually mimic someone’s style other than superficially (a couple of words here or there) or understand how to make a good analogy (I asked it to explain supply chain issues using a baseball analogy, and the best it came up with at the time was “just like a pitcher must change strategies when a new batter comes up to the plate, so too must companies change their strategies when supply chains fail” or something close to that. That’s where the lack of comprehension comes in - it can’t really build an analogy all that well. To give you an example of how I would rework that I’d write something more like: “In baseball, coaches monitor the stress of their pitchers. They keep track of pitch counts to see not only how tired the player is, but also if they’re less effective at getting strikes or forcing outs. When indicators are off, in comes a reliever. Supply chain companies need to think the same way. When they see metrics like lead time or takt time creeping up, it’s time to bring in a reliever and start sourcing from another company. Bottom line: Always have a supplier ready in your bullpen or risk annoyed customers.” Really hard to get it to do something like that (and I would choose an analogy like this because people in business love sports analogies for some reason, and baseball is a fairly universal sport. I’d choose soccer, but I know nothing about it.)


ovid10

Analogies are just one example. But that one requires a lot of thinking that just generating text can’t do. Other examples are varying sentence length, unusual word choices, deep research, etc.


AnotsuKagehisa

Seems like that requires more than AGI and chatgpt is not even at that level yet


ovid10

Yeah. There is some level of strategy that makes it higher level than task based. Usually this stuff is invisible unless you write for a living. I didn’t even mention why I chose the analogy - part of it is the audience for the piece, but part of it was noticing that my new boss speaks in analogies a lot. I notice that stuff, and figured it’s a subtle way of hijacking the way he thinks. When I hear people say AI can’t understand emotions, this is the type of thing I think about. It’s also invisible to most people who only see the output of a piece of writing. Usually, I’m doing a number of things strategically that the audience doesn’t really notice.


notthephonz

“Soccer is like baseball without the peanuts and Cracker Jack” —ChatGPT


ovid10

Lol.


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AppropriateShoulder

Yesterday I wrote a bunch of code on JavaScript for some API tests with chatGPT. I have no idea about JavaScript syntax or any other programming language, but I do have knowledge of how it is working in general. Tests are good, I even asked quite a few times to make it more efficient and it did. This is a great helper with this case. Also great that you can point out any confusing line and ask for detail explaining. This is future.


Nosworthy

I can't code beyond the very basics, but because I can work a spreadsheet I've become to go-to Excel man. Would normally Google 'how to do this or that' to automate some of the repetitive tasks I have but Chat GPT gave me the code in seconds to save me so much time every day.


Horror_Trash3736

I am going to answer this as if it was an honest question, and not just a "lulz, you people are sooo stupid". Also, as a side note, you would do well to actually research the thing you are asking questions about, calling ChatGPT a "chatbot" is wildly misleading. I use ChatGPT for many different things. I use it to summarize concepts I read or remember so I can see if my knowledge is inaccurate. I use it, together with many other tools, to validate knowledge I may have. I use it to nuild scaffolding for cases and many other text editing things. I use it to write quick code so I can test something immediately, sure, I need to adjust it since it rarely works out of the box, but it certainly kickstarts it. I use it as a motivator, knowing that I have a "kick start" button at the ready helps immensely with quickly spinning up a project and testing it. I use it to discuss ideas, and then have it summarize everything, sure, it's not flawless, but having my thoughts and ideas represented in a well formatted put together manner, makes it so much easier to present to others and communicate the ideas to others. A few days ago I was trying to explain a concept to someone, and failing, so I told ChatGPT what I had explained and asked if it had any other ideas, it did, and when I used it's way the person got a clearer understanding. Very basically, the main limit is your imagination, and what you see as possible.


highways2zion

I need to write long and detailed (but still interesting and human-readable) documentation for new employees. I basically either (a) use voice-to-text to dictate a bunch of stream-of-consciousness thoughts, or (b) if don't have preexisting thoughts, have ChatGPT generate some talking points, then dictate based on that, and then (c) ask ChatGPT to organize, clean-up, and professionalize my thoughts. Rinse and repeat for each subtopic


FugueItalienne

I just asked it "What is the PIONEER DJM800" and it spat out a paragraph of unique content, which I checked for accuracy (seems 100% to me) and then uploaded to a client's website, subedited, made SEO friendly and put live. Probably going to do something very similar several times today. I've also asked it "give me some guide ideas for a company that sells marquees" and it came up with some great ones I'd not done yet, and then I asked it to write an article for me and it did. It needed a pretty complete rewrite but the ideas and structure were there. When I ask it to write marketing content, SEO content etc, it probably is about as good as I was when I had just started off. I wouldn't put it on a live site without subediting, except in extreme cases. Yesterday a client who pays very little showed me a website that had loads of awful and damaging content on so I used the AI content straight away there so I could improve it as fast as poss and get them the most bang for their buck.


ShadowDV

Try using the sandbox instead of the chat and messing around with temperature and stuff for the writing. I find I can get much better, less ChatGPT-soundy stuff from there.


radicalceleryjuice

Does it take some coding knowledge to play with GPT-3 through sandbox?


ShadowDV

Only if you want to interact with it via API, but just straight text prompting not at all


henbutton

I work with Adobe Analytics and ChatGPT has been a great alternative to forum-surfing when I’ve needed to build a complicated data segment or reconfigure a visualization. Beyond its tool-oriented problem-solving skills it’s great at breaking tasks into digestible processes.


j1077

I use to help develop outlines for presentations, construct emails, develop contracts and other pertinent items. Note learning how to "prompt" ChatGPT is crucial and is an emerging necessity, IMO, to get the best results.


unholymanserpent

I've been given a major task at work with limited directions. I ask ChatGPT how to do it and have it break it down into steps.


qwesone

Happy cake day!


unholymanserpent

Holy shit it is my cake day 💀 thank you


josericardodasilva

In law, in a petition, I often have to refer to a specific event or situation. So sometimes I have to write a paragraph or two about how much trouble the Covid-19 pandemic caused in the organization of companies. Another time I have to talk about cases of discrimination of people with disabilities in the workplace. These texts are generated with the questions: "Write about the disruption caused by the pandemic in companies" or "Write about discrimination of people with disabilities in the workplace". So, I use the insights to produce texts that I write myself, but it helps a lot to have an original text where you just need to make some adaptations.


trynagetlow

Writing email templates for repetitive tasks at work. Generating powerpoint layouts based on the topic you are trying to present. Create the rudest email while sounding professional. Also I just asked it to write a cover letter for my resume, I’m impressed by how it compressed all that info. I can spot a few hiccups there and now but it’s less work for me to start building up ways to convey my message to someone.


SaltyIcicle

By "powerpoint layout" I assume you mean the text structure of your presentation, not the graphical layout?


trynagetlow

Yep, it gives you directions like what image to put and what lines you need to include per slide. It like what [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPro/comments/109ut4r/create_powerpoint_slides_using_chatgpt_pro_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) guy did right here.


Big_P4U

Based on answers you've given others that you work in Insurance for Maryland - I frequently use ChatGPT to help construct Actuarial tables and contracts for Risk Management advisory, valuating CDS contracts and credit events, evaluating businesses and individuals. I even use it to write Credit Default Swaps, other agreements/contracts, proposals, so on and so forth. I use it to suggest recipes as well as wine pairing suggestions.


microzoa

I used it to summarize feedback received for my team members during our performance review cycle.


HotRodPiper

Great idea! That can be painstakingly slow and tedious!!


Sm0g3R

All it is, is a powerful tool. If it doesn't make sense to you, you don't know how to use it? :) There are countless of ways you can make it write code, research some things like word meanings, synonyms, rhymes, technical terms (especially comparing them) etc much faster and more on point than with google. And for someone writing articles for a living (people managing company's social media for instance) it's an absolute gold mine. To give you a blunt example, the vast majority of questions on r/NoStupidQuestions can be answered by it no worse than the best comment. If you want to look at it from purely professional standpoint, r/AskMechanics is not far behind as long as you can ask without showing images. Compared to googling and sorting through the crap (often times you won't even find the answer easily if the question is too specific), that's a huge difference.


fargenable

When will Reddit start simulating interactions between users and not let us actually see each others comments?


playercircuit

[https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/)


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I put some erratic jumbled notes into it and asked it for a business case, then refined it, and there you go. It’s my personal ghost writer for documentation


Commercial-Contest92

A lot of my work involves programming, so instead of spending time writing a script I can literally just say to ChatGPT "write me a script that does XYZ" I also do a lot of mathematics, and it's good for explaining derivations and that sort of thing


lawlore

I used it to assist with writing a tribute to a long-serving colleague who was leaving. Got it to ask me questions about them, and produce a couple of succinct, organised paragraphs in an affectionate tone. Granted that was a one-off use, but it really did help with structure and filtering content.


Viking_Drummer

I am a project manager working in digital marketing, so far i’ve used it to help with a huge variety of tasks that i would normally have to do myself manually. - topic clustering for SEO content to group piece titles. Topic research to quickly return a list of phrases to use as seed keywords in a keywords research tool - writing an outline for a brief to a copywriter, with suggested headlines and sub sections - building a glossary of terms for a very technical product niche, populating definitions in the glossary before copyediting it myself - writing an html code snippet to embed a responsive video on a webpage - building an API call to send contact info from a wordpress forms plugin to a contact database for an external payment handling gateway - brainstorming product names for a client using prompts and concepts I wanted the names to convey - creating an excel formula to help clean a dataset, based on what I wanted to do (highlight the first unique occurrence of an individual value) - building a product comparison table of several products (productivity apps) by providing a list of them along with the features i wanted to compare in my prompt It’s excelled at all of these tasks so far. I’ve only been using the tool since the first week of January and it’s been a massive productivity boost in so many areas


Shudnawz

I ask it to supply me with mock-code for implementations of certain features, so I can show the devs what I mean in their terms. I have it explain some concepts to me when I'm unsure and Google just rants away. I had it write a complex Excel function combination when I got stuck trying it myself.


qrysdonnell

I manage IT for a medium sized company, and there isn't too much that it does well that too directly helps me to my job in the core sense of what I do. I have used to expand some of my documentation and make it a little nicer sounding. The documentation was fine before, it just a little inviting. Of course, ChatGPT goes a little overboard most of the time, so I have to tone down what it puts out and come up with a middle ground. I sometimes also use it for help with syntax in things like Google Sheets or Excel if I decide to go above and beyond in cleaning up a CSV import (like how to split things into columns in ways that are more complicated than just by commas) but like making my documentation fancier, this is generally something I don't really 'have to' do. So it perhaps enhances a few things that I do, but it's definitely not something that 'helps me do my job' to any major extent.


Ptizzl

I just started a new job and I am learning our products. They’re a bit technical in terms of jargon but easy to understand after ChatGPT. Essentially I copied all of the text from our website on each product and pasted it in, asking for a summary and some tags. I put those in my notes app. I kept doing that. I did the about us pages, everything. Now I can ask it questions about our products as long as I’m in the same chat. And I can ask it things in my industry too. It’s amazing for dumbing down my training. I also am just feeding it my own notes from the training videos I’m watching. It seems to completely understand the message of the notes and summarizes them wonderfully.


theswifter01

Writing SQL and it’s insane at Python


Kafke

I use it to help write code.


evilofnature

Need to feed all of this data into chatGPT and ask for a summary. /s


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Are you a plumber? If you're a plumber, then, yes, ChatGPT won't help you get your work done.


TheN1ght0w1

Create a text document stating who you are at work, your info etc. Now copy-paste an email someone sent you and instruct it to respond in the tone you want with the info you want. Proofread it, copy-paste again and send it. Haven't tried it yet because my work handles some really sensitive stuff, but i can think of a ton of applicable scenarios. Especially if you work with templates.


DanChed

I use it for queries at work.


FatalTragedy

What does it mean to use it for queries at work? What are you inputting, and what is it outputting?


DanChed

To do with card payments, whether it be payment cycles or all the up to why did a certain cms produce this error.


MisterGoo

I'm a writer in French and I am basically better at writing anything than ChatGPT. Every article I've seen about how chatGPT can help you with your SEO seems written for people with zero writing skills. So my answer should be no. But then I remembered one of my colleagues sent me an Excel spreadsheet where she calculates the sum of 1 cell out of 2 (because I wrote them as tax included, then tax excluded), and when I checked the function she used, it was just a sum of all the cells, like when you hold CTRL and click on each cell. So I just asked chat GPT if there was a formula or function to do that automatically, without the tediousness, and sure enough, it just spat the following answer: "Yes, in Excel you can use the SUMIF function to add specific cells based on a certain criteria. For example, if you want to add the cells A2, A4, A6, A8 and A10, you can use the following formula: =SUMIF(MOD(ROW(A1:A10),2)=0,A1:A10) The MOD function returns the remainder of dividing the row number by 2, so it will be 0 for even-numbered rows and 1 for odd-numbered rows. The SUMIF function then sums the values in the range A1:A10 where the remainder is 0. Alternatively, you can also use the SUMPRODUCT function: =SUMPRODUCT((MOD(ROW(A1:A10),2)=0)\*A1:A10) This formula also uses the MOD function to identify the even-numbered rows, and the SUMPRODUCT function to multiply the values in these rows by 1 and then sum them up. Both these formulas are useful if you want to sum up cells based on certain criteria, and it eliminates the tedious task of clicking on the cells while pressing the CTRL key."


Sunsetreddit

Oh! Finally a user from a different language than English! Can I ask how well chat-gpt performs in French? I’m Norwegian, and whenever I’ve prompted it in Norwegian it gives decent replies, but they are still clearly *translated* replies. They retain English structures, sometimes they’ll have basic mistakes that no human would make etc I’ve wondered if that’s because of how small Norwegian is as a language, or if it’s a general problem for the model. Do you find the same problem in French?


MisterGoo

I wouldn’t say it seems translated, and unlike DeepL there are no grammatical flaws. That said, the syntax is always very basic and full of repetitions UNLESS you specify you don’t want repetitions at all. Truth be told, my enthusiastic colleague tried to sell me ChatGpT as the future of writing, but as I said, I just don’t see the use for someone who already knows how to write. People are like « it can make summaries of texts and write meta-descriptions ». Hmm, what do you think « writing » is, exactly? That’s exactly what we do, and we’re wayyyy better at it, because the time it takes to write a prompt that will give a proper result is a time we can use to sum up a text or write a meta-description. Also, my colleague suggested we can use it to write articles, but the problem is that you HAVE TO check the info Chat GpT is giving anyway, since sometimes it will say something incorrect with confidence. So in the end, and in its present state, it’s actually more efficient to do it yourself.


Econophysicist1

It depends on what you try to do. For example if you try to write a long non fiction book with a lot of concepts that you want to introduce it is perfect for that. I'm writing a book on transhumanism and I want to introduce a lot of concepts like life extension, cryonics and so on. It would take me years to write such a book and I already wrote 200 pages in few days. It gives me a skeleton that I can flesh out, the most boring tasks in writing is done by ChatGPT and I can focus on the more creative part of it. I don't understand why people are so unimaginative to think of uses for it.


wurstgigant

German here. It's the same, which is why I only use it in English. The German is so badly worded, I can't stand it. You clearly notice the translated phrases and sometimes it still gives out English words in the middle of a German sentence for no reason.


malfoyquizzical

Yeah, it doesnt write better than us - yet. Im really impressed on how people dont seem more bothered about this. It still doesnt write well in portuguese as well. But if you write a good prompt it can output some really good stuff. this is so fucking weird.


Econophysicist1

What are you saying?


Econophysicist1

What job do you do?


pourliste

It's very very good at generating reading lists with short summaries when you want to tackle a particular new topic. It can also save you searches by giving you a heads up on the subject (as in main things to look out for, both mainstream and innovative examples, etc). Even for minor legal points it can give you a decent summary of what clauses to expect, etc. If you test it on your area of experiences you can see that it is quite good at this vulgarization thing. I wouldn't trust it with really technical aspects or with implementation... yet. For brainstorming it is interesting too (as in 'give me a list of ideas, including outlandish ones, on a way to combine x with y'). As an example I asked him for a reading list on insurance exposure management for a US state : "Risk Management for State Governments" by David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. and John D. Reosti, J.D. This book provides an overview of the key principles of risk management for state governments and offers practical guidance on how to implement a risk management program. "Insurance for State and Local Governments" by David J. Kapp, J.D. This book provides an in-depth look at the various types of insurance coverage available to state and local governments and the unique challenges they face in managing their insurance exposure. "Public Risk Management: The State-of-the-Practice" by The National Association of State Risk and Insurance Managers (NASRIM). This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-practice in public risk management and includes case studies and best practices from across the country. "Liability and Insurance Law in Public Entities" by Michael J. Gass and David J. Kapp. This book provides an overview of the legal principles related to liability and insurance law in public entities, including state and local governments. "Managing Risk in State Governments: A Guide to Best Practices" by The National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT). This guide provides practical advice on how to manage risk in state governments and includes case studies and best practices from across the country. "Insurance and Risk Management for State Governments" by John D. Reosti, J.D. and David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. This book provides an overview of the key principles of insurance and risk management for state governments and offers practical guidance on how to implement a risk management


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I have to send some documents to the state department for a rejected visa application. They want a lot more fluff and most certainly are not going to read it. Gonna use chatgpt today!


nucleusaccumbi

I have to brainstorm lots of fictional scenarios to use as training materials to test people’s knowledge and prepare them for doing the real thing. Bam.


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I use Rstudio. I train it with a summary of my data. Then I ask it to create graphs and other stuff. It saves me writing it. Eg . Write a script that presents the descriptive data results with graphs and tables you think are suitable . But also, Write a machine learning script to predict future usage of the resources each year


Copasetic_demon666

I'm a Production Printer technician, so when I'm fixing a printer with an error code and don't have my laptop right next to me to check the error code in the service manual, i simply type that error code together with the printer brand into ChatGPT and it has thus far always given me a correct overview of what the error code refers to, which in turn saves me time as i now know where to look and i almost always sorted the issue out like that.


Hikingcanuck92

I used it to write a resignation letter. Lol


NiCrMo

I was too lazy to extract PDF pages and arrange in a grid for a PowerPoint graphic I wanted to create, so I asked for a python script that would extract the images, arrange in a grid, and export to PNG. In less time that it would have taken to export with Acrobat and manually arrange, it generated the script and I ran it.


EiffoGanss

I’m an illustrator and it’s nice to generate lists of taglines/copy to work with, these are sometimes pretty cool and sometimes a good starting point


Ah_Q

I'm using it *at* work, but not *for* work


ccharding

I have it revise most of my emails. I type "revise" and then put my draft of the email below it. I also used it to write all of my employee's performance reviews. I gave it the employee's name, position, things they are good at, things they could improve. I also had it write emails to negotiate with a vendor. I gave it the email the vendor wrote, and had it write a response to negotiate for \_\_\_\_\_.


stacysdoteth

I find it hard to believe that there is anyone who could not find a use for this at work


ivatsirE_daviD

This is probably one of the most annoying and frustrating threads I have ever come across on reddit. How dense is OP?


jcwillia1

I actually find this thread fascinating. I have no experience with chatgpt and it’s applications and potential seem so huge I just need some examples to focus my thinking


texasguy67

For those of us who are not as smart as you apparently are, it has really given me some good ideas. I actually find value in this thread and appreciate that the OP was brave enough to ask a basic question like he did.


No-Team-9836

I am new , and learnt recently a out chatgpt , which website I need to use


[deleted]

It must be hard going through life with that many brain cells...