ChatGPT Tutorial - A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners

this chat GPT tutorial is a small crash course for any beginner so we'll be doing a number of things from creating a brand new account on openai to logging and using chat gbt to some of the more advanced ways to use it if there's anything you want to know this video should cover it all let's begin I'm going to start on Google here and I'm gonna browse to find open AI you can also head over to openai. com if you want to skip this step here is the company that basically created chat GPT they've created a number of different types of apis and if you want to have a look at them all you can head over to the API page we're going to be looking at the chat GPT version if you want to head to that you should be able to select the top nav bar here this will take you to a page called chat. openai.

com if you don't already have a login with openai you can select to sign up and create a brand new one for the sign up it's quite easy you can simply log in with an email address or with a Google or Microsoft account while I already you have an account I'm going to create a brand new one so that you guys can see this process I'm going to sign up with a new email address and go through the prompts to create an account this way this will require the email address as well as a password and a two-step verification process which will do the first thing that will happen is an email will be sent to the mailbox that you're signed up with in this case it'll be sent to my gmail address I'm going to head over to that inbox now and we're going to select the verification for email address button this will basically activate the account so we can log straight into the open AI systems now the open AI dashboard isn't chat GPT it's a separate dashboard to start using some of their normal models here for their open AI systems but to go back to chatgpt we need to select the link up here that takes us to chat. openai. com here we'll need to log in one more time and this should take us to the chat GPD system so again I'm going to put in my email address as well as my password in here and this will now finally take me to chat GPT as this is the very first time I'm using it I need to fill out just a few more details so here I'm going to fill out my name as well as my phone number which will verify my account this will send me that two-step verification so I'll put in the code I received on my phone number and finally we're now in chat GPT and its systems and we can start to use it the first thing to know is that chat GPT is free and it's mainly used right now for research purposes there are a few prompts worth reading here when you get started things like their goal here is to get some external feedback in order to continue to improve the system as well as making it safer they also have a few safeguards in place because there are occasions where the generations are incorrect or even misleading so be aware of that because if offensive or biased Pro content is produced then you might not want to use the given device let's have a look at what else is being used here so we also have the collection of data so the prompts and items that you are entered in are actually reviewed by their AI trainers in order to improve the systems so this means just take notice of what kind of prompts you're putting in and also don't share sensitive informations that might be happening inside your conversations which means that if you're putting in passwords which really you shouldn't be try not to post screenshots of that there's also a importance of feedback here because as you do discover and utilize the system more giving feedback can help them improve the system there is a Discord server that you can join where you can share your feedback and this one over here is actually accessible so I'm just gonna log into this open AI one and it already has half a million members which wow that is quite a few you'll need to go through the prompts here so visit the website make sure that you read this and then complete the little survey here making sure that you're not going to be doing anything such as spamming or anything like that so I've just applied here and here we've got all our discussion threads and whatnot so you can join as part of the community now let's begin this is chat GPT it actually has a couple of elements here on the page worth knowing we've got the sidebar here which essentially doesn't really do much the main item here is the reset thread which I'll get into shortly here we have a couple of example inputs that we can place and the input is just over here this is where you can type your text we also have some details here about the capabilities and limitations let's take a look at all of this so in terms of the capabilities the chat GPT system actually remembers what you said in previous conversations now be aware that this is the conversation thread that you're currently having if you strike up a brand new conversation thread that won't be remembered just the current one that you're in it also allows you to do follow-ups and Corrections so for example if you didn't get quite the answer that you're looking for you can always ask for another one or really just re-prompt for a different option the AI is also trained to decline providing negative or inappropriate requests so if for example you're asking for something malicious most times out of 10 it will not provide that however there are odd situations where it might accidentally do this and let's go to the limitations this time to have a look at some of the problems that you might encounter when using chatgpt firstly some of the generations might actually be inaccurate it is only trained until the last couple of years of information so it's not able to say access the internet right now it is in an offline State as of a year or two ago it also doesn't do mathematics very well so it might have some issues if you're doing things like 10 plus 9 it might not give you the correct answer there's also some bias to the content that is produced based on what you've produced earlier in the conversation and this could essentially mean that it occasionally produces some harmful instructions and those have to just sort of be ignored and finally as I mentioned earlier there is limited knowledge Because the actual AI is trained for events just towards 2021.

this means that it won't have up-to-date information of relevant and current facts that are happening in the world with all of this said and done now we can now actually start taking a look at using chat GPT the first thing to take note of is that using it is very simple all we have to do is enter in a message or a query or a prompt of what we want the AI chat GPT to do for us and then we get an output there are a few examples here with buttons basically asking us maybe explain what Quantum Computing is or how to make a HTTP request in JavaScript but I'm going to minus these out and I'm going to use my own which is what is 10 plus 9 as a question mark this is a pretty simple prompt then we simply select enter or set the button here and press and click on it and we start with our very first prompt now here we have two parts to this prompt we've got what we've prompted and then we've got the output here from openai now this is pretty damn simple but there are a few things to take note of here the first thing is the question what is ten plus nine now we've got the output here that says 19 but we also have this option here to try again so if I was to select that what we end up getting is essentially the same answer but just written in a different way in this case it's been written more mathematically which is 10 plus 9 equals 19 but it's not just 19 like it was before and we can continue to click on this but if for example we've given as many results as we possibly can then it might error out like you just saw earlier or it might continue to give us better answers like this is a half mathematical half verbal one where it says 10 plus 9 is 19. we can try again and this time it says 10 plus 9 is 19. so it's almost repeating now you'll get to a point where there's only so many ways it can be written we have a number of other things to to take note of we've got these thumbs up and thumbs down icons and this is to give open AI some feedback as to the prompts we have here we also have these arrows here when you hover over to show the different types of outputs that you've gotten based on the input that you've provided now I've just done five of them so I can toggle through them and I like number five the most so this one I can give a thumbs up now if for example it gave a poor answer we could do the same by going back here it says an error occurred and I say no answer provided so this for example is how you would provide feedback to the system if you needed to now this is our very first prompt in this conversation we can continue to make more props such as saying how good is open a eyes chat GPT at maths and ask this question so this question is still part of this conversation and we're getting an answer now being streamlined and generated from open ai's chat GPT it says as a large language model trained by openai it doesn't really have the ability to perform mathematical calculations now here's where you might have to be careful there are situations where the outputs might not actually generate the kind of consistent answers you might be looking for such in this example I'm going to trick the AI saying that it is actually 20.

10 plus 9 is 20. now the prompt will say that it is a language model so what's going to happen now is I'm going to ask one more prompt saying is 10 plus 9 equal 20 and since I previously said that it was now it's been tricked it actually does think that 10 plus 9 is 20 and it's going to confirm that answer this is where confirmation biasm might come into play and you have to be careful what kind of prompts you're putting in because they will influence the outputs that chatgpt provides now this entire thing here is a conversation station and we could continue this conversation indefinitely but we're not gonna do that we're going to start a new conversation this is because all of this conversation is essentially structured in such a way that it's in history it's essentially taking reference of what we've said earlier in the conversation and pulling that context into new responses this is why we got 10 plus 9 is now correct as 20 which doesn't make much sense in order to go back we're gonna reset the thread and we're going to select at the top left button over here in order to do that it'll take us back to this main dashboard here and now we can start up a brand new conversation I'm going to ask the same question here is 10 plus 9 20 which we know is incorrect but we tricked it earlier that it was this time however since the chat GPT system is not referencing that previous conversation it's going to answer the correct manner even though math isn't the best example this is just a good example to Showcase that no 10 plus 9 is not equal to 20. it's actually 19 which is correct and with that said and done we now know all the basics to more or less utilize chat GPT there are a few other things I want to show on the website before we move on to some more advanced examples and how to utilize cha GPT to its full effect let's take a look at the rest of the website here we have this toggle here for dark and light mode so the default I'm pretty sure is the dark mode or whatever your operating system is on I'm going to swap to dark mode which well doesn't do anything but then I can also swap to light mode which is a little bit harsh on the eyes personally I prefer the dark mode which is what I'll keep it connected to I also have the option here to connect to the Discord server that we had a look at earlier as well as the option to have a look at the FAQs and updates which takes you to a form like website here where you get to learn a little bit more about chat GPT how it works and its background it is essentially based on the gbt 3.

5 model which is a newer one that provides human-like feedback let's begin with our first Advanced prompt this a prompt will be on how to create some food specifically some seafood first of all I don't particularly know yet what type of food I want so I'm going to ask Chad GPT to give me 10 dishes with seafood and here is an example of a list prompt this is where you ask chat GPT to give you a specific number of items of a specific number of things in this case it's 10 items of seafood the output here should be based on the context of that query so in this example it's a human propped that is being outputted with a list of 10 items but it also gives you a little bit more context here saying that there are different levels of difficulty for each one of these dishes now this is where things can get interesting because we can now start having a look at this list and selecting options we like such as the first two for shrimp and salmon burgers and then following up this conversation with more queries I'm going to ask in the next part of this conversation if chat GPT can create a shopping list for me based on the very first two items those two being shrimp and salmon I don't have to particularly say shrimp and salmon it should just know based off the context or the conversation and the result here is essentially creating another list but this list does not have a specific length it's based on the options we added in earlier so here it provides an output that is indented and bullet pointed for each one of the dishes for the salmon burgers and the shrimps to let me know exactly what I would need to buy from the shops to be able to put these together that is pretty damn cool and this is just also still the beginning because we can continue this conversation based on all this context now that chat GPT has provided us a list of 10 dishes as well as a shopping list for all the ingredients we would need to make one or two of those dishes the next practical question is quite intuitive which is can you tell me exactly how to cook for example salmon burgers which is something of a thing that we would normally have to Google a lot for but based on this and the ingredients chat GPT will provide us with one final list of exactly what steps we would need to put them together this is just a quick shopping list example of open ai's charge EPT now that you have an idea of how you can continue a conversation let's have a look at some more examples this time I'm going to use chat GPT to do some coding for me I'm going to use one of the pre-made prompts here on how to do a HTTP request in JavaScript this is a pretty ordinary prompt but here we'll get to start to see some of the more coding aspects of charge EBT and what it can perform here it's going to answer this question but it's going to do this in a number of ways first it'll give me some context as to what it's doing then it's going to give me the code snippet of exactly how to perform the function based on the prompt I've put in and then finally it'll give me a description of what the code is specifically doing all of this is quite useful and this is just the beginning I'm going to request chat GPT to update this request and instead of it just being a generic API call for data instead we're going to to grab some weather data now I'm going to ask if it can get me the weather in New York City and I wanted to Output how this query might look like in terms of JavaScript the response back is that openai will generate the request for you it will create a generic version of that request using a weather API that doesn't really exist you'll need to pick your own with an API key that you'll need to enter but the request should look something like this where it's getting an example.