After using chatgpt for 3 months, I can tell you with certainty that learning must be the biggest part of its function that can help ordinary people. First of all, we don’t need to be anxious about whether we will be eliminated by AI, learning how to use it well to help our ability to improve is what we should be most concerned about at the moment.
The amount of text it learns and organizes is more than we humans can achieve in a lifetime, but we should not feel “defeated by the machine”, but rather use this to improve our own productivity and seize this opportunity to grow in the foreseeable future changes.
Next, we will talk about how to use chatGPT to improve ourselves from learning languages and improve personal life for example.
Learning ：
Taking learning English as an example means that you can learn by example and let it help you deepen your understanding of other subjects. Soon you will realize that this is a new direction for human education, rote memorization is no longer necessary in front of AI, what matters is your ability to apply it as a human.
Learning Scenario 1: Look up words, make sentences and get feedback
Explain the word rusty and give me some example sentences.
Learning Scenario 2: English conversation
Let’s have a back-and-forth conversation about food.
Learning Scene 3: Change English composition
Please act as an English teacher and give me feedback on my writing sample, including suggestions for improvement and corrections of any mistakes.
Can you provide me with a revised version of this writing sample?
You can even ask chatGPT directly how can we use chatGPT to improve English learning.
As you may have noticed, the key to learning English with chatGPT is to ask the right questions to get the right answers to your needs. So, how do I ask questions to chatGPT if I want to learn English with it? It’s not that simple, just ask it.
Notice my question, Can you give me a list of example prompts that can be used by English learners?In chatGPT, the user input is called prompt, of course you don’t use this word, just use questions, chatGPT can also understand.
If you have read this far, you should be able to visualize how powerful chatGPT is, and that’s just for learning English. In fact, chatGPT can help you learn anything you want to learn, like programming. It can help you write all kinds of materials and write emails, you just need to tell it what you need. You can also use it to conduct mock interviews and tell it what kind of job you are looking for. chatGPT will throw all kinds of interview questions at you and also give feedback on your answers.
My personal feeling is that a product like chatGPT has finally made me feel what artificial intelligence is, not “artificial retard” like some past artificial intelligence claims. Then I couldn’t help but think, what skills can I have that AI can’t replace? Will the skills that I thought were irreplaceable be replaced one day? In the present, I think we can at least learn how to use AI tools to free up productivity, and then devote our energy to creative activities that can’t be replaced by AI.
Note my question, Can you give me a list of example prompts that can be used by English learners?The user input in chatGPT is called prompt, but of course you can use questions without using this word, and chatGPT can understand.
If you have read this far, you should be able to visualize how powerful chatGPT is, and that’s just for learning English. In fact, chatGPT can help you learn anything you want to learn, like programming. It can help you write all kinds of materials and write emails, you just need to tell it what you need. You can also use it to conduct mock interviews and tell it what kind of job you are looking for. chatGPT will throw all kinds of interview questions at you and also give feedback on your answers.
My personal feeling is that a product like chatGPT has finally made me feel what artificial intelligence is, not “artificial retard” like some past artificial intelligence claims. Then I couldn’t help but think, what skills can I have that AI can’t replace? Will the skills that I thought were irreplaceable be replaced one day? In the present, I think we can at least learn how to use AI tools to free up productivity, and then devote our energy to creative activities that can’t be replaced by AI.
Life :
I wrote above how to use chatGPT to learn English. For most of us ordinary people, I think it’s good enough to use it to improve our daily work and learning efficiency. For example, many transactional text work, which used to require racking your brain, now you only need to tell your needs to chatGPT clearly, and then you can get a good draft, and then you can manually modify and adjust it, and then you can deliver it perfectly. Besides, chatGPT can also do some things to integrate resources, for example, if you want to learn a certain field quickly, you can directly ask chatGPT to make a detailed learning plan for you with key resources, so you can follow the steps to learn.
Next I’ll share with you how I use chatGPT on a daily basis to improve my efficiency, both in parts related to English learning and in more general usage. Of course chatGPT can have its limitations and requires you to have a certain level of judgment. But this is actually a good thing, at least it shows that human value judgment is something that AI can’t replace yet. As humans, we should feel a little comfort.
Writing English emails
Personally, I feel that chatGPT’s emails are too flat and stable, and I can’t see any “human flavor”, even if I give it my own writing to change, it has removed a lot of things that belong to me, and I can’t feel any characteristics of me as a person. I’ve tried using chatGet a few times. So after a few attempts at writing emails with chatGPT, I went ahead and wrote the kind of emails that needed to show my personality and that I wanted the person to feel like a real person. However, I still ask chatGPT to refine the following email for me, and if there are any obvious mistakes or inappropriate places, I will correct them.
Advanced speaking practice
Remember what I told you about the key to practicing speaking is output? For example, after reading an article try to repeat it, after listening to a piece of material try to repeat it, I even want to repeat the episode of an American drama after watching it (well, if the enthusiasm for learning is high). Many people don’t know how to retell. Next I’ll introduce you to a simpler way to use chatGPT. You give your study material directly to chatGPT, ask it a few questions about the material, and then try to answer those questions verbally after reading the material. For example, after reading an Economist article, let chatGPT design some questions for you and then you can answer them verbally.
Doing video content in different languages
Recently, I wanted to try to make some video content in English, and writing video scripts can be a tedious and time-consuming task. At the time, I could have just asked chatGPT to help me write the English video script for any topic I wanted to do, but again, that would have been a flat text without my personal touch. So, I would first roughly record a video in English as I wanted, sort of a draft, and then extract the English text directly after the draft, and then have chatGPT edit the text for me, so that I would have a video text with my own personal style but with correct and rich language. It saved me a lot of time in revising the video script.
Read books and papers
Sometimes I need to read professional English papers, and if there are too many papers to read, it takes a lot of time to read them one by one, and I don’t really need to read them so carefully, then I can let chatGPT read the paper for me, and let it please summarise this paper for me: [enter the paper link here]. If you want to get a synopsis of a book, you can do the same thing.
Test your learning
If you want to study a book, or an article, and want to test your learning afterwards, you can ask chatGPT to give you questions to test it. For example, if you have finished reading a paper and want to know if you have fully understood it, you can ask chatGPT to give you 10 questions about it. learn the paper [insert name of literature or link] and then ask me 10 questions about it.
Make a study plan
A very useful aspect of chatGPT is that it can help you integrate useful resources from the web and structure them so that you can follow the steps to learn and do them. The key to any skill improvement lies in the integration and linking of knowledge, and the right arrangement and combination will give more meaning and value to the fragmented knowledge points. For example, you can ask chatGPT to help you make a one-month plan to learn Python with related resources, so you can follow the plan step by step. You can also ask it to help you make a plan for a month of reviewing for IELTS. Of course, chatGPT’s plan may not be so suitable for your own needs, but one of its benefits is that it gives you a very comprehensive and systematic framework that you can modify according to your needs, which shows the importance of human value judgment.
Okay, so these are some of the things I’ve done so far with chatGPT that have improved my daily efficiency. Each of these things is based on my personal needs and is something I can really use myself. If you want to use chatGPT to help you in your daily life, I suggest you think about your needs first, then ask chatGPT questions, you may need to try different ways of asking, and then finally find the answer you really want. Finally, I would also like to say that although chatGPT is powerful and a very useful tool, however, it is only a tool after all, and the value of the tool depends on the people who use it. If you are a systematic and organized person, chatGPT will certainly make you get twice as much work done, but if you don’t have that ability, chatGPT may only add to your anxiety.
