You can chat back and forth with ChatGPT as much as you like it’s right there in the name However if you’re hoping to get something specific from the AI it’s best to be clear about your goals That starts with understanding them yourself what...
While it’s important to be clear about what you want from the AI there’s no need to dictate the precise terms of your enquiry or an exact structure for its response unless it’s for a particular purpose such as filling in a form or processing...
ChatGPT won’t do anything without your input but it isn’t a mechanistic device that you can control directly AI engines by their nature aren’t perfectly predictable or consistent there’s a reason why we talk about “prompts” rather than...
e’ve mentioned that ChatGPT remembers the context of a conversation but it’s worth digging a little more deeply into exactly how this works When you type in a prompt ChatGPT doesn’t interpret your words directly but rather translates them...
The use of tokens comes with some important implications The first thing to grasp is that once a token has entered the context window it remains there indefinitely or at least until the conversation goes on past a certain length as we’ll...
ChatGPT never intentionally discards context but as the number of active tokens in a conversation grows the focus can drift away from your initial requirements which is another reason why it doesn’t hurt to restate your purpose every so...
Every conversation with ChatGPT has its own context window and the things you say in one thread won’t affect the AI’s behaviour in a different one… with a few exceptions Open up the ChatGPT Settings interface and you’ll find a section...
I has a bad reputation for “making things up” In a sense this is entirely fair as we’ve seen everything it tells you is effectively Aa probabilistic inference ChatGPT has no way of determining whether the answers it gives you are...