How to use ChatGPT ? And Learn all the basics 😊

With OpenAI's constant rollout of impressive new features, ChatGPT is quickly cementing its position as the AI assistant I never knew I needed. It helps me with all aspects of my job—from brainstorming new ideas to analyzing spreadsheets and even acting as a writing coach. 

If you're eager to leverage ChatGPT in your daily workflows, but you're not sure how to start, you're in the right place. Here's everything you need to know about how to use ChatGPT.

What is ChatGPT? 

ChatGPT is a chatbot app built by OpenAI that can process text, image, and audio inputs (depending on the AI model you use).

In practice, this means it can do things like:

• Hold a voice or text-based conversation with you, answering questions about almost any topic

• Generate text for any occasion—for example, poetry, blog posts, and emails 

• Brainstorm ideas

• Generate images (and tweak them based on your requests)

• Search the internet for current information

• Analyze images

• Create charts and graphs based on your inputs

• Analyze data

• Translate natural language or design mockups to code

And practically anything else you'd imagine a multimodal chatbot trained on the entirety of the internet might be able to do.

How to use ChatGPT on the web or mobile app

Here's a summary of how to get started with ChatGPT:

1. Go to chat.openai.com or the mobile app, and log in or sign up (it's free). 

2. If you're on a paid plan, choose the AI model that you want to use.

3. Enter your text, image, or audio prompt on the ChatGPT home page.

4. Once ChatGPT spits out a response, you have a handful of options: 

   • Edit your original prompt.

   • Enter or say a new prompt.

   • Copy the response.

   • Regenerate the response.

   • Dislike the response. 

   • Share the response. 

Now let's take a closer look at the finer details of using ChatGPT. 





2. Choose your AI model

By default, ChatGPT is powered by GPT-4o mini. But if you're on a paid tier, you can choose a different model. Click the model dropdown in your conversation window, and then select the model you want to use: 

• Auto optimizes for speed and intelligence. 

• GPT-4o is good for general tasks. 

• o1-preview excels at processing prompts that require logical reasoning and generating code. 

• o1-mini is a version of o1 that's optimized for speed.  

  

3. Ask ChatGPT a question 

You can prompt ChatGPT in a few ways.

• Type your ChatGPT prompt (text query) in the message bar of the home page, and hit Enter (or click the Send message icon, which looks like an up-facing arrow).

Talk to ChatGPT to ask your question by pressing the headphones icon next to the message field. 

 

Upload an image by clicking the paperclip icon in the message bar, upload the image you want to share, and enter your accompanying prompt. You can also drag and drop the image from your computer into the message bar.

4. Interact with ChatGPT's responses

Edit your original prompt. Hover over the prompt and click the Edit message icon that appears (it looks like a pencil). Edit your prompt, and then click Send.

Enter (or say) a new prompt. One of ChatGPT's key features—and the one that makes it feel like having a real back-and-forth dialogue—is that it can "remember" the conversation you're having with it. This means you can ask ChatGPT to modify its response without repeating yourself or starting from scratch. ChatGPT will simply refer back to whatever you were discussing before and then use that to inform its response. Let's build on our initial prompt. To get more details about other awards won by Lily Gladstone, I entered, "What other awards has she won this year?"