Introducing ChatGPT

We all know communication is key to success, whether it’s with customers, employees, or partners. But what if there was a way to take our communication to the next level with artificial intelligence? Well, with ChatGPT, you now can!

ChatGPT is a language model trained by OpenAI that can understand and respond to natural language input. That simply means, you can chat to it, give it tasks to complete, and yes, completely freak out at the results.

As an example, I just typed this in:

Give me five things to do at work today. I seem to be lost at the moment.

And it came up with this response:

• Make a to-do list for the day to help organize your tasks and priorities.
• Check your email and respond to any urgent messages or requests.
• Reach out to a colleague or supervisor for guidance or support on a current project or task.
• Take a break and walk around the office or outside to clear your head and increase productivity.
• Identify areas for improvement in your work or processes and brainstorm solutions to enhance efficiency or effectiveness.

If it isn’t exactly what I wanted, it’s exactly what I needed. A place to start…

How I see it, in time, ChatGPT will be used to improve various aspects of our businesses, such as customer service, sales, marketing, content creation, and more. With its real-time assistance, powerful writing features, and the ability to generate new ideas, ChatGPT has become an essential tool in my daily workflow. I’ve used ChatGPT Plus for about three days now, haven’t visited Google for my searches and I’m completely addicted to ChatGPT.

I have used it to write draft articles, create lists of stuff I need in those articles, define terms for me, create about a dozen jQuery scripts for the tools we’re rolling out, write a draft WordPress plugin with documentation for an idea I’ve had in mind for so long, cleaned up html code, explained chunks of php code that I wanted to understand when debugging stuff, found over 150+ terms for a glossary of web technology related keywords from one word that I fed it ‘Pseudocode’, and a hundred more tasks. It’s just exceptional.

ChatGPT has the potential to help improve communication with team members, clients, and customers. It can write email replies, improve responses, and help create better blog posts. It acts like an assistant that works in real-time, providing valuable suggestions and handling tasks that take me longer, say days, when I had to program something. Having ChatGPT means I can run through tasks faster, plan differently and experience a new level of productivity. And with time, ChatGPT is going to become more and more important in the business world. At the moment, you’re chatting to it, in future, it may well be spoken to, and integrate with technologies like Siri — I wish to well, get it to do what it must, without the hassle of leading us to web pages.

With ChatGPT, and its new Premium service ChatGPT Plus, businesses can improve productivity by creating more efficient processes, automating repetitive tasks, and freeing up time for more important things. And the best part? ChatGPT lets you customize communication to specific industries and contexts.

As an example, let’s pretend that I’m a baker and want to try a new recipe for my clients. So let’s enter this in:

I am a baker, give me an unusual recipe for donuts, which I can try and later prepare for my customers.

And here’s the response that ChatGPT begins typing in less than a second:

Sure, I have an unusual recipe for donuts that you might be interested in trying. These donuts are infused with a delicious Earl Grey tea flavor and are topped with a sweet and tangy lemon glaze. Here’s the recipe:

Earl Grey Tea Donuts with Lemon Glaze

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
2 Earl Grey tea bags
2 large eggs
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the lemon glaze:

1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon zest

Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a donut pan with cooking spray and set it aside.
2. In a small saucepan, heat the milk until it’s warm, but not boiling. Add the tea bags and let them steep for 5 minutes.
3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
4. In another mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, melted butter, vanilla extract, and the milk and tea mixture (remove the tea bags).
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined.
6. Spoon the batter into the prepared donut pan, filling each mold about 2/3 full.
7. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a donut comes out clean.
8. Let the donuts cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
9. While the donuts are cooling, make the lemon glaze. In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest until smooth.
10. Once the donuts are cooled, dip the top of each donut into the lemon glaze and let the excess drip off.

Serve and enjoy!

These Earl Grey tea donuts with lemon glaze are a unique and tasty treat that your customers are sure to love!

How easy was that? As I see it, ChatGPT is an awesome, awesome tool. It’s about to disrupt the search market (to an extent it already has) and it’s going to challenge the ugly web (ad-induced content).

Do you see yourself using AI at work? Will you adopt AI like ChatGPT and change the way you work? Will your company do?

To see for yourself, sign up for ChatGPT for free. If you need ChatGPT, even during peak times (since the service may be under stress at times), with faster response times and priority access to new features and improvements, you can sign up for ChatGPT Plus from US$ 20 per month.

I’ve done it, and I feel it’s going to be one subscription I’m not letting go anytime in the near future.