There are two approaches to using ChatGPT:
1. Maximalist, or Gotcha, approach
2. Minimalist approach
What are these approaches and which one you should use:
1. Maximalist, or Gotcha, approach
2. Minimalist approach
What are these approaches and which one you should use:
Most people have a maximalist, or gotcha, approach towards ChatGPT.
They will ask it a question of maximum difficulty and when ChatGPT doesn't give the right answer, they go, hey, you dumb!
Example 👇
They will ask it a question of maximum difficulty and when ChatGPT doesn't give the right answer, they go, hey, you dumb!
Example 👇
I asked ChatGPT what a "hazal" was.
Obviously, ChatGPT wouldn't know what a hazal is.
It's a genre of Urdu poetry dedicated to pornography.
Not many people, outside a small circle of Urdu scholars, would know much about it.
This is not an intelligent use of ChatGPT.
Obviously, ChatGPT wouldn't know what a hazal is.
It's a genre of Urdu poetry dedicated to pornography.
Not many people, outside a small circle of Urdu scholars, would know much about it.
This is not an intelligent use of ChatGPT.
Before moving on the minimalist approach:
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A minimalist approach, on the other hand, makes ChatGPT a useful tool.
Example:
I transcribed a video and took a short passage from the transcription.
I asked ChatGPT to remove redundant words and make the sentences coherent.
A simple task with minimum difficulty.
Example:
I transcribed a video and took a short passage from the transcription.
I asked ChatGPT to remove redundant words and make the sentences coherent.
A simple task with minimum difficulty.
As you can see above, ChatGPT did a decent job of removing redundant words.
Once I knew ChatGPT could do this, I decided to run the whole transcription (13,000+ words) through it.
If it can "clean" one paragraph, it can clean 30.
Once I knew ChatGPT could do this, I decided to run the whole transcription (13,000+ words) through it.
If it can "clean" one paragraph, it can clean 30.
I broke down the transcribed text into short paragraphs and ran them through ChatGPT one by one.
After I was done, I had a decent draft that I can now polish further.
If you want to use ChatGPT smartly, you will have to have a good understanding of your own writing process.
Once you understand the different stages in your process, you can choose which stage you want to make more efficient with the help of ChatGPT.
Once you understand the different stages in your process, you can choose which stage you want to make more efficient with the help of ChatGPT.
I start a piece by writing a zero draft, which I then convert to a first draft.
These are two distinct stages in my writing process.
Because I know my own writing process, I can use ChatGPT to go from zero draft to first draft quickly.
These are two distinct stages in my writing process.
Because I know my own writing process, I can use ChatGPT to go from zero draft to first draft quickly.
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