ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that went viral upon launch and reached over 100 million users in less than two months. Wonder why it became so popular? Because of all the things you can do with it. More than just a chatbot, ChatGPT can be your search engine, write emails, poems, and scripts, answer questions, and so much more. Here is a list of some of the best things you should try and do with ChatGPT.
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What Is ChatGPT
In case you are wondering what ChatGPT is and what is all the hype about, here’s a primer.
It is a conversational AI that is capable of carrying out an intelligent conversation with a human. Simply put, it’s a chatbot that makes you feel like you are chatting with an actual human. Before looking at what you can do with ChatGPT, here’s how to get started with ChatGPT.
Things You Can Do With ChatGPT
ChatGPT understands and processes queries in natural language so you can input queries like you are talking to a friend. As ChatGPT is a language model, it can understand your input and produces output naturally. We have also added images that include both our prompt and ChatGPT’s answers.
1. Generate Email Templates
Whether you want to apply for a job, send a thanks mail, coordinate on the progress of a project, or take permission for leave, you need to create and send emails. You can make this process easier with ChatGPT.
Ask ChatGPT to write an email to someone providing the needed details. That’s it, ChatGPT will write the email for you. With just a few minimum changes, you can send that email.
Moreover, you can ask it to write in a specific manner such as Keep it short or Make it more formal, etc.
2. Use as Search Engine
We all have used search engines that provide us with a list of links that can be helpful. ChatGPT directly answers the question instead of sharing links. Not just that, you can also ask if you have queries and it will clarify with an answer in return.
Anyhow, remember that this is a new technology and it may return with a wrong answer occasionally. Also, as of now, it only has data until 2021. So if you ask any questions about incidents in 2022 or later, the service will not be able to help you. But ChatGPT has been integrated with Bing Search Results which has more up-to-date info.
However, ChatGPT is still not there yet and there are areas where a search engine is more useful.
3. Explain in Different Styles
You can ask ChatGPT to explain concepts, definitions, theories, etc. to you in different styles. As it generates the answer according to your question, you can ask it to explain like you are 5 years old or ELI5, keep it short or simple, list bullet points instead of paragraphs, etc. Just ask it in the natural language and it will do it for you.
You can also make learning more fun. ChatGPT can return answers to queries in styles of popular figures or even fictional characters.
4. Brainstorm Ideas
You can ask ChatGPT to generate ideas for you. For example, you can ask for topics to create content for your YouTube Channel, ideas to celebrate the birthday of a 10-year-old, message prompts to start chatting with your crush, business ideas to improve your company, etc. You are limited by your imagination here.
You can even ask niche questions that no other search engine or application will help you with. For example, you can ask it to generate video ideas on Discord for a tech YouTube channel. Even if it is a niche problem, ChatGPT will generate ideas for your videos.
5. Make Conversations About Your Favorite Topic
A chatbot’s main function is to hold onto your conversation, and ChatGPT is no different. You can start a conversation with ChatGPT on any topic that you want to discuss or learn. You can talk about movies, hobbies, science, or even about ChatGPT itself. It will remember your previous chats and follow along with the flow.
ChatGPT does not have any opinions as a language learning model and will not engage in conversations that it is not meant to be in. Certain topics are off-limits.
6. Complete Your Essays and Assignments
Have homework to write an essay about something? No issue, ChatGPT is to the rescue. With just a simple prompt, ChatGPT can write your essay in a matter of seconds. Also, you can give precise instructions like what should be included in the essay, how long your essay should be, what it should avoid, etc. Just give clear instructions like you normally do with people, and ChatGPT will write you an essay accordingly.
Want to change something? Simply reply back with the needed details. ChatGPT will rewrite the essay with the additional info you input.
7. Generate Jokes
Not just assignments, you can also use ChatGPT for entertainment. One of the most common ways is to ask ChatGPT to tell jokes. If you prefer, you can also give a topic and ChatGPT will reply back with jokes on that specific topic.
Sometimes, jokes may not be funny, but you can generate as many as you want. Keep trying until you find something that you can share with others.
8. Play Trivia Games
Other than jokes, there are also many games that you can play with ChatGPT. One of the best is the Trivia games. ChatGPT can conduct trivia on any topic you mention. There is no points system, but it keeps on asking questions as long as you answer. It will tell you whether you are correct or wrong after every question and also gives a small explanation for the answer.
Anyhow, most questions are easy to answer and also most of them are focused on to US audience. Other than Trivia, there are many other games that you can play with ChatGPT.
9. Treat It Like a Mentor
Do you know ChatGPT is also a good motivational speaker? Mention the problems you are facing and ChatGPT will respond with the solutions. You can also ask questions such as what should you message someone, how to manage your time, how to find a new job, etc. You can ask questions related to topics such as relationships, career, personal growth, hygiene, finance, etc. and ChatGPT will give a personalized answer for your specific question. And then you can dig deeper. It all depends on your questions and how you interact with the AI chatbot.
10. Generate Bio and Posts for Social Media
Want to create a bio or posts for your social media account? You can use ChatGPT for it. Ask it to create a post and also include the topic. That’s it, ChatGPT will give you some results that you can use. The more details you give to ChatGPT about your specific need, the better the results will be for you to use them.
11. Translate Text
While ChatGPT is good at English, you can also use it to translate text into multiple languages. While we do not have any official source to confirm the number of languages it supports, it works exceptionally well.
We tried some languages and ChatGPT worked pretty well.
12. Extract Data From Text
Another thing you can do with ChatGPT is extracting the data from the text you have provided. You can share a story and ask questions about it, provide blogs, manuals, etc., and ask specific questions.
Instead of reading the entire document, you can take advantage of ChatGPT to find specific information. ChatGPT does not only look for words but also understands the context and answers accordingly.
13. Summarize Articles
If the document or blog post you are reading is too long, create a TLDR version easily with ChatGPT. Just paste the text of the entire document and ask ChatGPT to summarize it. Within a few seconds, ChatGPT will give a summary of the entire thing in a couple of paragraphs.
14. Generate YouTube Scripts
If you have a YouTube channel, use ChatGPT to help with writing scripts. Ask ChatGPT to write a script on the topic you want to make a video on. Just like in previous examples, offer more details such as making it positive, using stats, etc. to make it more interesting. If your channel is big, there is a good chance that it can even write the script in your particular style.
Anyhow, this can be only your starting point. To get better results on YouTube, make further adjustments. Nonetheless, you can understand things that you have to cover and also get some stats, examples, and tips to talk about.
15. Write Blog Posts
Like YouTube videos, you can also use ChatGPT to write articles for your blog. Ask it to write on a given topic and also include details about how you want the article to be. ChatGPT will write the article in the way you need. Note that most ChatGPT articles have plagiarism, so instead of simply copying content, use it as inspiration instead.
16. Play Guessing Games
Think of a character and ask ChatGPT to guess it by asking yes or no questions. You can also ask ChatGPT to think of a character and then you can guess instead.
Though you can play games with ChatGPT, it wasn’t meant for that. So it can be hard to get into the game mode. Instead of asking let’s play a guessing game, you need to explain the game. For example, here is the prompt I used – I thought of a character. You need to guess the character that I am thinking of with 20 yes or no questions.
Though this is not related to ChatGPT, when it comes to guessing the characters, Akinator does a much better job than ChatGPT but doesn’t sound or read human.
17. Write Code
ChatGPT also has some coding knowledge in many languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, etc. You can simply ask to write the code in a language and also provide the output of the code. ChatGPT will do it easily and also gives an explanation of the code it generates. Apart from that, it can also solve many data structure questions in the specified language.
Anyhow, it won’t code an entire app with a single prompt and can work with existing codes available on the internet. If you need to create something totally new, ChatGPT cannot help you with that.
18. Debug Code
Facing issues with your code and not sure how to fix them? Before hitting Stack Overflow, try ChatGPT. Enter the entire code and ask ChatGPT to debug it. It will highlight the problem with your code and can also provide alternative better methods to achieve the same result.
19. Ask for Movie and Book Recommendations
There is no shortage of streaming services with movies and web series to watch these days. You can rely on ChatGPT to suggest some movies to you. Specify the genre or a movie and ask it to find something similar. You can also do it with other content types like books and music.
20. Generate Movie Scripts and Stories
While ChatGPT cannot create movies, it can easily generate scripts or stories that are actually pretty good. Begin with explaining the genre, characters, and anything else you want to be part of the script. It will write stories, but if you ask it to generate movie scripts, it will generate in a screenplay style.
21. Write Song Lyrics and Poems
Now you can easily write songs on any topic using ChatGPT. Just ask to write a poem on TechWiser and it will do it. Though it does not create music, it is always fun to check out the lyrics and poems on things you are interested in.
22. Get Random Facts
To impress your friends, you can learn random facts on any topic you want to talk about. Also, you can continue the conversation by going deeper into a specific fact.
As mentioned before, ChatGPT can sometimes be inaccurate. So it’s always better to fact-check before using them elsewhere.
24. Complete Crossword Puzzles
Stuck in a word game? Well, you can complete that with the help of ChatGPT. Input the question, number of words, and other additional details to instantly get an answer.
25. Create an App
ChatGPT also has an API that you can integrate into your own app. Whether you want to build a help chat or you are building an application like a code writer, diet planner, story writer, etc. Wherever you think a language model will be helpful. If you are a programmer and especially, a machine learning programmer, visit the ChatGPT API page.
What More Can ChatGPT Do
There are many more things you can do with ChatGPT like travel recommendations and planning, workout plans, learning a new language, etc. You can also ask ChatGPT to provide prompts to search on DALL-E 2 to generate images.
