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Get Started with ChatGPT

Go to https://chatgpt.com/
And type in a question, phrase, you want to answer or discussion around.
That’s It. As a start, for trying out things. See more in Account and Plans page.

I.e. one doesn’t have to (well – ‘you might be able’..’in guest mode’) create an account to get started but even the Free plan does provide benefits.

Good to Know about AI, AI Tools

AI Solutions, Tools

“AI, or artificial intelligence, is the simulation of human intelligence in machines designed to perform tasks such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, and understanding language.” [from asking ChatGPT: ‘explain ai in one sentence’]

Training

Just like a human, an AI-solution, like the human brain, must learn something befire it can make any reasoning e tc.

Tools are trained on data, lots of data, LOTS. Which take also lots of time and compute resources.
1. Quality of responses depend on quality of data in, so ‘Lots of Shit In => Lots of Shit Out’
As training / learning takes time (think more in terms of months than weeks or days or more) so be aware that tools are better at older topic and can be more toward worthless on latest, most current, topics.From 2023-11-07 zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-is-no-longer-as-clueless-about-recent-events/
“For GPT-3.5, the cutoff date has been increased to January 2022 from September 2021. And the cutoff date for the new version of GPT-4 dubbed GPT-4 Turbo is April 2023. These new timeframes mean you won’t bump into as many unanswered questions and apologies when asking the chatbot about the recent past. ChatGPT’s responses about relatively recent events should also be more accurate and precise.”I.e.
1. You will be more successful with good answers on “older”, more mature topics, like food recipes, older programming languages with syntax, programming logic, et c.
2. To less successful to get good, or any useful what so ever, answers of what happens today or yesterday.

More on Cutoff Dates

ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff date has changed over time:

September 2021: When ChatGPT was first released in November 2022, the chatbot’s large language model (LLM) was trained on data up to September 2021. This meant that it couldn’t access more recent information through internet searches without the use of plugins.
GPT-3.5: January 2022
GPT-4: April 2023: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that ChatGPT would be trained on information up to April 2023.
GPT-40: October 2023 (meowmeowaiacademy.com/what-are-chatgpts-knowledge-cutoff-dates-and-why-they-matter/)
Current: ChatGPT can now access up-to-date information by browsing the internet.
ChatGPT is an AI language model that was trained on a large amount of text from a variety of sources, including books, Wikipedia, news articles, and scientific journals.