The free version of ChatGPT (version 3.5) performs really well, but if you are finding this a useful tool, you may decide to upgrade to version four. This can be done using the upgrade button to the bottom left of the main screen.
ChatGPT 3.5 is free to use, ChatGPT 4 costs $20 a month.
Chat GPT 4 offers a range of additional features:
- Browse with Bing – this allows access to up-to-the-moment information from the world wide web, not possible with ChatGPT 3.5. Great for providing up-to-date geography case studies and providing weekly news summaries.
- Accelerated Market Research – can access latest statistics, eg electric vehicle sales in UK
- Web Page Summaries – just provide the URL and ChatGPT will provide a summary in a form of your choice
- Travel Planning – ask ChatGPT to search for 3 family hotels in Barcelona for under £120 a night near the city centre. Try searching for this in Google and you will be flooded with ‘noise’ of sponsored advertisement sites.
- Reviews – ask ChatGPT to review your web site or blog. It will suggest possible improvements / alterations
- Work with images (ChatGPT Vision) – ask questions to an image. Screenshot a web homepage and ask what improvements could be made. Experiment with picture to text story telling (eg craft a short story for children from a single image). Digitise your handwritten notes. Use image-based learning (eg paste a picture of a feature and ask how it might have been formed). Design recommendations (eg paste a picture of your bedroom and ask for suggestions to improve it)
- Advanced Data Analysis (or Code Interpretation) – load a spreadsheet (csv file) and ask ChatGPT to act like a data analyst to interpret it. You can then ask it to provide questions to investigate the data more thoroughly (along with the answers).
- You can also have the raw data presented with a variety of charts and tools such as line charts, bar charts, histograms, pie charts, scatter plots, area charts, bubble charts, choropleth maps, radar charts, word clouds, and 3D charts.
- Use a wide range of plug-in tools – this extends the scope of ChatGPT and are available from the plug-in store (most are free). Here are some examples:
- AI PDF – provide the PDF URL and you can then interact with it, get summaries, search for terms etc. Allows you to access scientific papers, whole books, user manuals etc. Private PDF documents can also be examined by uploading to the AI PDF web site, which provides it with a URL
- Doc Maker – Turns information into a range of chosen formats, eg Word Doc, CSV, PDF, Excel spreadsheet, or most useful of all, a Powerpoint presentation.
- Dall-e – generates images from creative prompts, eg an enchanted castle at midnight by a river, a steampunk cityscape in a futuristic world etc After an image has been produced, you can edit your text used to generate it to modify a new version. Allows you to produce architectural designs, logos, infographics, fashion designs, comics, book covers etc. As with text questions, the more detail you provide, the better your results will be. Be creative- ask it to generate a Star Wars style teapot!
- ChatGPT Voice (on the App version) – record your voice instructions and your answer will be spoken back to you. Can be used to practice a job interview, rehearse a presentation, or gain feedback on a podcast. You can also use it as a tour guide while on holiday, while standing next to the Eiffel Tower, ask ChatGPT to give you four interesting facts about its history, or for location of other sites nearby.
- Prompt Perfect – writes the best ChatGPT prompts
- Smart Slides – produces Powerpoints
- Canva – creates web site templates and much more
- Vox Script – transcripts from You Tube
- Show Me – diagram generator
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