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March 24, 2025

ChatGPT For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Overview

Updated to provide a deeper and closer look at ChatGPT

Expanded and extended, this new edition of ChatGPT For Dummies covers the latest tools, models, and options available on the popular generative AI platform. You'll learn best practices for using ChatGPT as a text and media generation tool, research assistant, and content reviewer. If you're new to the world of AI, you'll get all the basic know-how needed to add ChatGPT to your professional toolbox. And if you've been doing the genAI thing for a while already, this book will sharpen your skills as you apply AI to real-world projects in an ethical manner. You'll get insight on the best practice for using ChatGPT to make your life and work easier and how to write prompts that result in high-quality output.

  • Understand what generative AI is and how ChatGPT produces human-like responses
  • Get tips on writing effective prompts and using ChatGPT to generate sound and images
  • Apply ChatGPT to your daily work or personal life
  • Discover the best way to fact-check AI-generated content to avoid errors and hallucinations

Anyone using ChatGPT to enhance their work—whether for professional or personal use—will get better results with ChatGPT For Dummies.

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About The Author

Pam Baker is an author and a trainer with over two decades of experience as a journalist focused on the tech industry. She recently won an AZBEE award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for B2B writing. She is author of the first edition of ChatGPT For Dummies and Generative AI For Dummies.

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ChatGPT took the world by storm shortly after its debut. If you’re feeling at a loss as to what to do, too excited to decide where to start, or uncertain about how to react to artificial intelligence (AI) entering your space, this cheat sheet will help you make some quick and meaningful headway that you can build on as you go.

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ChatGPT took the world by storm shortly after its debut. If you’re feeling at a loss as to what to do, too excited to decide where to start, or uncertain about how to react to artificial intelligence (AI) entering your space, this cheat sheet will help you make some quick and meaningful headway that you can build on as you go.
ChatGPT is a global phenomenon that sparks fear and excitement worldwide. Because it sounds human but is made of advanced AI software connected to an internet-sized database, people assume that it's better — or worse — than humans. ©Lalaka / Adobe StockReactions run the gamut. Maybe this AI is the first machine overlord of sci-fi lore.
Indeed, prompting is both the easy part and the most difficult part of using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, like ChatGPT. Difficulties in the complexity of cues and nuances in text-based prompts are why some organizations have a prompt engineering job role. ©Goodluz / Adobe StockWhat is a ChatGPT prompt?
ChatGPT is a huge phenomenon and a major paradigm shift in the accelerating march of technological progression. Artificial intelligence (AI) research company OpenAI released a free preview of the chatbot in November 2022, and by January 2023, it had more than a million users. So, what is chatgpt? It's a large language model (LLM) that belongs to a category of AI called generative AI , which can generate new content rather than simply analyze existing data.
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