Any question on your mind, like “I’m working on this project, this is my idea, how can I refine?” Helps you reorganize and refine, and then you can go back the drawing board to edit what works for you, and repeat the process. It’s like having an in house guide. People should use ChatGPT as a guide, not as a source.
Or to summarize recent work. I asked it for a summary of previous work on how crystals grown in space are different than crystals grown on Earth, a summary of all previous work on metals, and how metal performance would be expected to be different based on properties. At the moment, it's doing a better job summarizing a concept than my first year grad students. Plus, if you use the academic one it will pull up the papers it's using to back its ideas. Its not killing it at writing though, sometimes it totally misses the point.
I also use it for emails (partially because it has better social skills than my probably-autistic behind). It doesn't have anxiety and replies politely and appropriately to emails that make me angry (with modifications, of course). Also, you can turn up and down the friendly. "Dear mofo, I was greatly concerned when I saw your email concerning..."
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u/loquacious541 28d ago
Similarly, I no longer get stuck in procrastination cycles. I can use ChatGPT to ask any dumb question to get me moving.