ChatGPT for the Rest of Us
A Plain-English Guide to Learning, Laughing, and Solving Everyday Problems, and Finally Understanding What AI Can Do for You
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ChatGPT is not just for tech experts. It is for the rest of us. This friendly, plain-English guide shows beginners how to use ChatGPT for everyday questions, better decisions, learning, creativity, and a little more fun. Authors Kim " Kikas" Sekas and Bill " MrExcel" Jelen explain how to move beyond one-and-done questions and have useful conversations with AI. Readers will learn how to write better prompts, ask follow-up questions, turn ChatGPT into a patient tutor, quiz themselves, brainstorm ideas, troubleshoot problems, improve writing, analyze images, create artwork, play games, write songs and stories, and get unstuck when they do not know what to do next. Along the way, the authors share practical examples, surprising experiments, and plenty of humor. They also address the questions new users naturally have: Can ChatGPT remember me? Does it have feelings? Am I oversharing? Why does it sometimes make things up? What are the social and environmental concerns surrounding AI? No programming knowledge is required. The book begins with setting up a free ChatGPT account and gradually introduces the features and habits that make conversational AI genuinely useful. Whether you are curious, cautious, intimidated, or simply wondering what all the fuss is about, ChatGPT for the Rest of Us will help you understand what AI can do, where it can go wrong, and how to start using it with confidence.
Bill Jelen
Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. He loves performing his half-day Power Excel seminar around the world. He has produced more than 1,900 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 45 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. Before founding MrExcel.com, Bill Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches-working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife, Mary Ellen. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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