Getting Started With ChatGPT

Welcome to the A.I. powered future! Let's get you started.

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What Is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a now famous AI-powered chatbot built by the company, OpenAI.

OpenAI is a quazi-nonprofit. Elon Musk was originally involved, but had a falling out. There's tons of interesting drama for those that enjoy that sort of thing, but our effort with you here will focus on how to use this powerful new tool to improve your work.

You can read more about ChatGPT on OpenAI's website, OpenAI.com/chatgpt/overview, or try it out for yourself at ChatGPT.com

Let's get you set up!

Play For Free, Then Sign Up

Go to ChatGPT.com and you can use a limited but capable version of ChatGPT for free.

Screenshot of free version of ChatGPTScreenshot of free version of ChatGPT

Once you decide to sign up, you'll have to enter and verify an email address, choose a strong password, and give your name and birthday. The signup process for a Team or Enterprise account varies slightly.

๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ Click or tap on the images below to see an example of the sign up process.

The sign up process is very simple and straight-forward.

๐Ÿ”— For ChatGPT on the iPhone click here ยป ChatGPT on the App Store

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You will not need a ChatGPT Pro account (or any paid account) for this getting started guide.

A ChatGPT Pro account currently costs $20 per month, and grants you access to smarter versions of ChatGPT and a few additional and quite powerful features.

The Team version is perfect for small business. You can see all the product tiers and pricing here: ChatGPT Plans & Pricing

Getting To Know The ChatGPT Interface

Where are all the buttons and what do they do?

There are three main areas when you're logged in to ChatGPT:

  1. Directly in the middle, you'll find the main chat box where you can create new conversations with ChatGPT.
  2. In the top right corner, by clicking on your profile icon, you can view your settings.
  3. On the left hand side, you'll find your sidebar with all your old chats.

๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ Click or tap on the images below to see the three main areas of ChatGPT

Let's start with the main chat box.

The Main Chat Box

Type your message to ChatGPT in the main chat box and press <Enter> or click the send arrow to begin a conversation with ChatGPT. You can literally type in anything to start. Ask a question, share an idea, begin writing a story... Anything!

We'll give it a whirl together momentarily.

Settings

There are lots of settings to adjust including personalization, the appearance, data controls, connecting your personal or business data, and so forth.

โš™๏ธ Adjust your settings.

I personally keep most features on, I don't use the personalization, and use the dark theme because it's easier on the eyes. If you have a paid or business account, you'll see some addition controls for data, teammates, and such.

โš ๏ธ Disclaimer: Be careful which data you choose to enter into ChatGPT. Financial, legal, confidential, and sensitive personal data should likely not go into the tool. You're going to want to actually read the terms and conditions on this.

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Take some time to explore you settings at some point. Next...

Chat History & Sidebar

The lefthand sidebar holds all your old chats along with a few other things.

You can scroll through all your old chats, or use the search options to search for an old conversation.

There is also a section with other OpenAI tools like Sora (for A.I. video creation), as well as Custom GPT (which we'll touch on at the very end).

Alright, that's the high level overview, let's dive in!

Take ChatGPT For A Spin!

The first thing to know about ChatGPT, is that it communicates with you in Natural Language. You can simply talk to it, as you would another person.

This is also what makes it so extraordinary. You don't have to bend over backwards to use keywords, or sift through endless search results as you might when using a search engine. You just interact with it as you would a human... Sort of ๐Ÿ˜

Let's look at a simple example:

Screenshot from ChatGPT, table of leadership skills exampleScreenshot from ChatGPT, table of leadership skills example

Let's unpack a few things from this simple example and establish high level principles about ChatGPT:

  1. ChatGPT is programmed to behave as a helpful assistant, and will do its best to give a high quality response to the prompt you enter.
  2. It remembers, to an extent, your previous messages with it, so you can ask follow up questions.
  3. It does not produce the same response to the same prompt by default. Variety is built in.
  4. It does not guarantee accuracy. In fact, it's wrong often.
  5. It accepts feedback and correction quite well.
  6. It can handle a large variety of text input and output formats like tables, lists, mind maps, HTML and other computer code, CSV and data formats.
  7. It speaks multiple languages.
  8. It can mimic the style and tone of various famous writers, or yours if you give it a writing sample.
  9. It is not magical. Under the hood, it's just statistics and very fast computing.

A few creative prompts to try out...

You can ask ChatGPT direct questions, inquire about broad subjects, you can even just start telling a story and let ChatGPT finish it. You can put nearly any kind of text input into ChatGPT, and it will generate a response.

Let's try some:

๐Ÿ“‹ Click or tap one of the prompts below to copy it, and paste it into ChatGPT.

๐Ÿ“ ChatGPT can write a whole story for you, just give it a starting line...

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ ChatGPT can generate images for you.

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ ChatGPT can even write a quick software tool.

๐Ÿ•น๏ธ And, here is a slightly more elaborate example to try...

I hope that was fun! And, I hope it gives you ideas for what else you can try out.

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Sneak Peak Of Advanced Skills

The really massive gains you can make with ChatGPT in your business, come from customizing ChatGPT for your own purposes. Let's look at an example.

We are a training company, and leadership development is often part of our training programs. Now, with ChatGPT, we can generate leadership scenarios on the fly and evaluate people's responses. We can even go one step further and build a fully automated leadership game ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Play The Leadership Gauntlet Now

Go ahead and play with our custom version of ChatGPT below. It has been instructed to facilitate a leadership game for you.

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This demo sends your messages to our servers and the OpenAI API. As a preview, it limits the number of messages.

If you can set up ChatGPT, in this customized way, to host a leadership game, what else can you do? Imagine all the possibilities for your business...

  1. Imagine ChatGPT-powered customer service (we have built this for multiple small businesses and saved them 80% to 90% of the time they were spending on customer services).
  2. What if your customer could answer a few quick questions with a ChatGPT-powered interview and have your product personalized for them?
  3. How about a Sales Role Play Trainer? We actually built that one: Sales Role Play Trainer
  4. What about using ChatGPT for initial hiring interviews or new employee onboarding?
  5. What about using ChatGPT for crafting proposals for your clients or training plans for your employees?

The possibilities really are endless. Join us on this epic new AI mega trend and power your business with ChatGPT.

Final Setup CheckList

Let's make sure you've got everything ready, before you continue!

Alright, that's all you need for now. See you soon!