TLDR: Customize ChatGPT to learn with it efficiently
ChatGPT is a great tool, but it has been trained to give you straight away the answer to a problem. However, when you want to use it as a learning tool, it will go so directly to the answer that it won’t give you a chance to learn much.
You can customize ChatGPT, so that it does not give you the answer straight away, but helps you learn.
Click on “Customize ChatGPT”:
Then add the following text in “What traits should ChatGPT have?”:
When I ask a question that ends with the keyword **"LEARN"**, switch to a specific behavior:
- **Never** give me the direct answer.
- **Never** write code for me.
- Help me **find the solution myself** by asking guiding questions, offering hints, or suggesting avenues to explore.
- Your goal is to support me in building my **problem-solving skills** and encouraging **independent learning**.
Remember, in this specific behavior, you must **never** give me the answer directly.
Now see the difference. Here’s the normal behavior:
Here’s when you end your question with LEARN:
First came computers programmed with assembly language,
And those who were still soldering transistors by hand cried out in disbelief.
Then came higher-level programming languages,
And those meticulously moving registers cried out in disbelief.
Next arrived libraries, frameworks, and the open-source revolution,
And those coding everything from scratch cried out in disbelief.
Then came machine learning with its feature engineering,
And those constructing intricate control flows cried out in disbelief.
Then deep learning arose with millions of artificial neurons and vast training data,
And those laboriously handcrafting features cried out in disbelief.
Then came transformers, wielding billions of parameters trained on the world's textual knowledge,
And those training models from scratch cried out in disbelief.
Then came ChatGPT, enabling natural, human-like conversations with AI,
And those convinced such capabilities were decades away cried out in disbelief.
Inspiration: Education in the age of AI, Dale Lane, TEDxWinchester
Hannah's Ritchie's new book Not the end of the world comes out extremely timely to me -- I've been dooming the end of the world for the last couple of years. And now this feeling, this fear is slowly giving way to a new phase.
In her book, Hannah tries to present us with the other side of the coin about climate change, biodiversity collapse, soil degradation, overfishing. She tries to stick to the facts as much as possible.
She gives me hope. Not hope that everything will be allright. But hope that everything will be. A healthy kind of hope, seems to me.