Tag: OpenAI
Before you go back to school, set up these 5 ChatGPT tools — your future self will thank you
ChatGPT has accumulated a surprisingly large collection of education tools, including Study Mode and new plugins designed specifically for college students and educators. The trick is using them to learn rather than outsourcing the learning itself. OpenAI explicitly describes its approach as helping students understand material rather than simply shortcutting…
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ChatGPT has started dropping unexpected f-bombs — and I think I’ve found the reason why
Have you noticed that ChatGPT has suddenly started dropping f-bombs? I have, and it seems that I’m not the only one. It first happened in a casual chat, and it really caught me off guard. We were discussing Netflix’s Jujutsu Kaisen and before I had sworn in our chat, ChatGPT…
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I stopped writing careful ChatGPT prompts and rambled at it for 10 minutes instead — the results changed how I use AI
I’ve often treated ChatGPT as though a poorly worded prompt might break it. I’d think about what I wanted to ask, rewrite it a couple of times, remove anything that sounded irrelevant, and essentially do half the chatbot‘s work in my head before ever submitting a prompt. Recently, I’ve discovered…
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Experts warn ChatGPT isn’t just predicting words anymore — It’s now predicting human thoughts
GPT-4 predicted personality scores months before any human ever answered a question A Bosch oven manual was enough for GPT-4 to invent personality traits DSM-5 predictions hit 0.71 accuracy; astrology predictions somehow hit 0.85 accuracy Human personality has traditionally been measured by asking people questions and comparing their answers across…
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I tried to use ChatGPT to create fake evidence — and I came away more worried than I expected
One of my favorite places online is Reddit’s r/isthisAI. Every day, people upload photos of people they’re chatting to on dating apps, holiday snaps, cute viral videos of kittens, photos of receipts, pictures of pregnancy tests, and so much more, all along with the same question: is this AI? Some…
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I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more
Both OpenAI and Google have released major new AI models within days of each other. OpenAI launched GPT-5.6, and Google has followed up with Gemini 3.6 Flash. While both companies have talked up the coding and developer features of these models, they also power the consumer versions of ChatGPT and…
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