Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots

Mark Pesce co-invented the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), bringing 3D to the Web and laying the foundations for today’s metaverse. He has written nine books, including Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing, was for seven years a judge on the ABC's The New Inventors, founded postgraduate programs in emerging media at USC and the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and holds an honorary appointment in the Digital Cultures Program at Sydney University. He writes a multiple-award-winning column for The Register, pens another for COSMOS Magazine, and is professional futurist and public speaker based in Sydney. Details at www.markpesce.com/bio

• Introduction1. Getting Started2. How AI Chatbots Work3. Security and Privacy4. Simple Prompts5. Reasoning and Summarising6. Truthiness and Chatbots7. Character, Context and Conflict8. Using Character, Context and Challenge to Craft Powerful Prompts9. Chain of Thought Prompts10. Computer Says No11. Creating Images with Bing Chat12. Windows Copilot13. Autonomous Agents14. Will and AI Chatbot Take My Job15. What the Future Holds / Next Steps

In this ever so timely book, one of my favourite technologists Mark Pesce, takes us through and behind the screen to explain how the latest generation of AI chatbots actually work. But this is not a book about chatbots, this is a book about how to use AI-powered chatbots in daily life, and how to use them to their fullest potential.