How I use ChatGPT to help me learn

ChatGPT can summarise and translate text, provide the history of something, or explain a complex topic in a simple way. Here are some prompts to help with different kinds of learning.

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Summary: ChatGPT can help you learn by summarising content, simplifying a complex topic, providing the history of something, translating between languages, and creating study flash cards.

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There are four categories of things I do the most with ChatGPT:

• Help me with home life

• Help me work

• Help me learn

• Have a bit of fun

Check out the other posts for tips on using ChatGPT at home, work, to have fun, and how to personalise the experience, but this time we're learning…

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Help me learn

Here's a 4min run through:

Here are five prompt ideas to try (prompt text in bold), and how they turned out.

Summarise an article, like "summarise this article: [and paste your article link or text]" (I used this one.)

Explain something complex in a simple way, like "explain how ChatGPT works in simple terms"

Explain the history of something to me, like "explain the history of Aboriginal Australia"

Translate from one language into another, like "translate this text into Spanish: [and paste your text]"

Create flash cards for studying, like: "create spanish flash cards for learning common household items" or "create flash cards for the following content: [and paste your text]"

How have you been using ChatGPT to help you study, or learn about things? Any neat tricks you've found? I'd love to hear them!

So far there are six posts in this series, check out the others:

• How to personalise ChatGPT

• Help me work

• Help me with home life

• Have a bit of fun

• Which AI has the freshest data?

And relatedly: Should I use AI, given its concerning environmental impact?

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