OpenAI employees share their 3 favorite tips for using ChatGPT

Business Insider

2 days ago

If you ever happen to see Nick Turley, the head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, muttering to himself on a weekday morning, it might be because he's talking to a chatbot.
Turley said that ChatGPT's voice feature is his favorite tip for using the technology on a recent episode of the OpenAI podcast.
"On my way to work, I'll use it to process my own thoughts. With some luck, and I think this works most days, I'll have the restructured list of to-dos by the time I actually get there," he said, adding that the voice feature isn't yet mainstream because there are a bunch of small "kinks" still. He said he finds it valuable to force himself to articulate his thoughts aloud, and wants to see the feature improve next year.
Mark Chen, OpenAI's chief research officer, said on the podcast that he's a fan of the deep research feature, especially before an introduction.
"When I go meet someone new, when I'm going to talk to someone about AI, I just preflight topics," Chen said. "I think the model can do a really good job of contextualizing who I am, who I'm about to meet, and what things we might find interesting."
And podcast host Andrew Mayne, who was formerly OpenAI's science communicator and worked on ChatGPT, said he uses the technology when he's out at a restaurant.
"I take a photograph of a menu and I'm like, 'Help me plan a meal or whatever, I'm trying to stick to a diet," Mayne said.
Turley, however, cautioned against using the same trick for the wine list. "It keeps embarrassing me with hallucinated wine recommendations, and I go order it and they're like, 'Never heard of this one,'" he said.
Corporate executives across companies are using AI in their daily lives, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no different. Altman said on the "ReThinking" podcast in January that he uses it in "the boring ways," for things like processing emails and summarizing documents.
When Altman spoke on the OpenAI podcast in June, he said that he uses ChatGPT "constantly" as a father. At the time, he said he was mainly using it to research developmental stages.
"Clearly, people have been able to take care of babies without ChatGPT for a long time," Altman said. "I don't know how I would have done that."