I feel like a kid with a new bike. GPT-4 is opening up so many new avenues for discoveries! In fact, our Future of Business team here at TCS now has weekly trainings and discussions on how GPT-4 works, and how best to use it. I am just beginning my learning journey, but already some things are clear. GPT-4 has an enormous amount of useful knowledge if you know how to find it. It's mostly common sense, but here are some helpful things I am recognizing.
- Learn the right way to ask questions. The better and more specific your questions are the better the answers. That seems basic, but asking GPT-4 a list of similar questions will quickly show you which ones work better.
- Tell GPT-4 who it is before it answers a question, e.g., GPT-4, you are a data scientist, or you are a bioengineering scientist, or you are a fireman. Giving GPT-4 a personna gives it a POV (point of view) to answer question from a specific perspective.
- Understand how to frame questions based on logical arguments and frameworks.
- The paid subscription version of GPT-4 remembers your previous chats/conversations, so you can go back to a discussion you had last week, and ask GPT-4 to expand on its answers. It archives your conversations for future reference.
- GPT-4 is good at finding your knowledge blind spots. You might think you understand a subject, but you can ask GPT-4 to help you create checklists of things that are often overlooked, or that only experienced experts would know about a subject. The lists often reveals things not previously considered. This enables one to fill in the blind spots.
- You can combine questions and personas to get fascinating answers. For example, GPT-4 is both a futurist and a fireman writing an essay on the future of firefighting from Jeeps. What things would be important to a firefighter that drives a Jeep deep into the mountains? These endless combinations make for stimulating conversations with your family and friends.
- You can also ask GPT-4 to create a counter argument. How would those that are opposed to argument #1, counter it?
- You can also ask GPT-4 to take the persona of your competition. How might my competition respond if I launched a new product that did xyz in this market?
Hopefully, your creative juices are flowing and you can see how nearly every position in an organization where decision-making is important could benefit from having their own subscription.
Kevin Benedict
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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.