You can use ChatGPT to learn about various topics, get suggestions, improve skills and even quiz yourself or your students on subjects.
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Video Summary
In This Tutorial
Nine ways to use ChatGPT as a learning tool, from asking for facts and explanations to practicing a language, brainstorming ideas, and creating quizzes.
Intro
- ChatGPT knows a great deal about many topics, so you can ask it questions simply to learn from it, building on each answer through the conversation.
1. Ask For Facts
- The most basic approach is to ask for facts on a topic, such as fun facts about wombats, and because it is a chat you can keep asking follow-up questions to go deeper.
2. Ask For Explanations
- Rather than just facts, you can ask ChatGPT to explain how something works, for example how a hybrid car works.
3. Explain It Simply
- If a topic seems too complex, you can ask it to adjust the level of explanation, such as asking it to explain nuclear fission as if you were five years old.
4. Ask How To Do Something
- You can ask how to accomplish a task, such as how to make fluffy pancakes, to get step-by-step guidance.
5. Ask For Specific Information
- It can supply specific details like nutritional information, for instance how many calories are in a banana or the nutritional value of a carrot.
6. Ask For Advice
- Beyond facts, it handles subjective topics, such as fashion advice on whether it is acceptable to wear shoes without socks.
7. Learn Another Language
- Because ChatGPT is multilingual, you can ask how to say a phrase in another language, such as thanking someone for a dinner invitation in French, and request sample conversations to practice with.
8. Brainstorm Ideas
- You can use it to brainstorm, asking how to make daily work meetings more fun or what present to get a ten-year-old who likes Marvel movies, and refine the results with follow-up questions.
9. Create Quizzes
- You can have it quiz you on a subject like seventeenth-century explorers to prepare for a test, and teachers can have it write tests, for example a ten-question planetary astronomy test for eighth graders, request multiple-choice format for easier grading, and ask for extra questions so unsuitable ones can be removed.
Summary
ChatGPT can support learning in many ways, including supplying facts, explaining concepts at any level, giving how-to guidance and advice, helping with language practice, brainstorming ideas, and generating quizzes for self-study or classroom use.
Video Transcript
Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let me show you some ways that you can learn things using ChatGPT.
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ChatGPT knows a lot about a lot of things. You can ask it questions just to learn from it. One of the most basic ways to do that is just to ask it for some facts. (Demonstration of a questions and ChatGPT's answers). Of course the Chat in ChatGPT means you can just ask follow-up questions.
Instead of just asking for facts you can ask ChatGPT to explain things to you.
(Another demonstration).
If a topic seems too complex you can always ask ChatGPT to adjust its level of explanation.
You can also ask it how to do something. Like this. You can ask Chat GPT to give you more information about certain topics or objects. For instance you can ask it for nutritional information.
Or just something like this.
It's not just good with facts. It's also good with more subjective kinds of topics like, for instance, fashion advice. (Answer from ChatGPT)
ChatGPT is multi-lingual so it can help you if you're trying to learn another language. You can simply ask it how to say something in a language like this. Or you can ask it for some text to practice with.
Of course you can keep asking for more examples.
If you need ideas you can use ChatGPT as a way to brainstorm. So, for instance, you can ask it something like this to start.
Then you can ask it followup questions like this.
Now if you're studying a subject you may want to quiz yourself on the topic. You can do this in preparation for a test or just to learn new things. So you can ask something like this.
Of course you can continue the conversation by asking for an answer that has you stumped.
If you're a teacher you can use this to actually create quizzes for your class.
Of course it is easier to grade these kinds of quizzes if they are multiple choice.
Of course not all questions may be appropriate for the quiz so you may ask it for more than ten and then be able to eliminate some you don't want to use.
So there are some ideas to get you started. I'm sure you can think of even more ways to learn things using ChatGPT. Thanks for watching.
HIi Gary was wondering why I can't find chatGPT in my apple App Store?
Kerry: It is not an app. It is a website: chat.openai.com
When I summarize a document in ChatGPT say 1600 words and I ask for 900 words, the summarization stops after a few minutes and you can tell it did not summarize the complete document. Is there a way to have it continue it to get a full summarization in 900 words.
I copy and paste into ChatGPT and made sure all the document was fully copied. ChatGPT says you can use the continue command, however I have not been able to get it to work.
Allan: Not sure why it isn't working. Just keep experimenting and remember they are improving it all the time so what doesn't work now may work next week.