Getting Started with ChatGPT: A Fun and Practical Guide

We're going to look at ChatGPT made easy in this session. The first half is. Let's have a look at what is chatgpt. What are the features you need to be aware of. I'm going to keep this very much a beginner's guide to ChatGPT. What are the things you need to be aware of? We're going to look at the free account. I'm going to show you amazing things you can do with a free account. And then we're going to spend the second half looking at real life use cases. We're going to keep away from business stuff. We normally talk about business use cases, but today I'm going to focus on some fun stuff, some highly practical stuff, things that I use it for frequently in my personal life, which make a huge difference. Right, so let's have a quick tour of Chat GPT and look at what you can do inside a free account. So I just need to pull up a. This is a free account. I've never actually used this one. I created this one just for you. This is what it looks like and the way it's laid out is on the left hand side you have a little menu bar that you can open and close very easily. And what you will see on the left hand menu bar is in the main. You'll start to see your history of chats. You won't see it now because I've never used this account. You will see my used account in a short while. But that's what it looks like when you first go into it. You have the option to start a brand new chat. You can search your chats, you can see a library of images you've created. That's AI images you've created. We'll talk about that later. And you've also got Sora, which is video creation. If you're on the free account, it's highly limited. And also there's GPTs, custom GPTs. But on a free account you cannot create your own. You can only get them from the store. So I'm not going to really talk about GPTs and Sora. They're not really beginner use cases. Let me now just close the sidebar. The main screen, what you have is right in the middle. It says ask anything and that's where you ask it whatever you want it to do. And we'll look at lots of use cases. You'll see how to do that. If you don't like typing, you can hit the dictate button. We can use voice mode, which is Pretty powerful. I prefer to use that on my iPhone. And then the plus icon gives you access to a whole bunch of tools. And there's some really powerful tools here. So we can add photos and files, we can drag in files and photos there. There's the Study and learn. This came out in July. This is brand new. This is study mode. Study mode uses a Socratic style of questioning. So this is really useful if you want to learn something. Probably better for people at university. For example, we can create images, we can get it to think longer using its advanced reasoning. We'll look at that later. There's deep research. You only have as you can perhaps see as you hover over four uses of it a month. So on the free account there's some limitations. But the great thing about the free account, you also have web search, canvas and a few connectors. So there are still. Sam Altman was saying that with the free account he wants people to still get access to almost all of the key tools, even if it's limited usage. So there's some great stuff that you can do and we'll talk about how you might use those tools. And then you have your settings and the settings has now been moved back down to the bottom left. And if you are new to ChatGPT, you would certainly want to check out the settings. Let me take you through some of them. So customizing ChatGPT is where you can create your custom instructions. This is where you can tell it how you want it to respond. This is where you can tell it something about you. I think this is really useful, but I'd also say it's for intermediate users. If you are a complete beginner. I wouldn't start here straight away, but if you start to use it more, I love it. It's a great feature that's under customization. If we go into settings, there's a few things that we can now set. For example, the accent color. You can choose the color that your prompts come in as a background just to differentiate them from the responses you get. I don't get excited by that. But if you like color, then there you go. You might want to use that. Language is set to auto detect. I would recommend that if you are English speaking, you select English. And part of the reason for that is because when I use the dictation mode on my phone, it then translates it into Welsh and gives me an answer in Welsh and I have no idea why. I'm not the only person that's mentioned that. It's happened to me thousands of people for some reason. So switching it to English hopefully fixes that. We'll see if you turn that on whenever you get a response, it will then give you some suggestions of what you might want it to do next. So if you're a beginner I would recommend keeping that on. If it becomes annoying, just turn it off in here. So that's the general settings. You can specify notifications if you want to be told when. For example, it's done some research for you. We've got some connected apps which you might want to connect with. There's a lot more on the plus and Teams accounts. They're rolling these out. This allows you to connect up to Google Drive for example, and then there's data controls and security if you want to check those out. Now, there are some limitations of the free account. Some of the key limitations are you only get 10 messages every 5 hours with GPT5 is the brand new model that came out at the start of August. Once you've used up your 10 messages it will automatically switch to GPT5 mini which is not quite so powerful. So you've got limit more limited use on a free account. But nevertheless for many people 10 messages every five hours is probably sufficient. If you are Fairly new to ChatGPT. If you want to use the advanced thinking GPT5 thinking, that's once per day, so not a lot of use on that. But from a personal point of view there's not a huge amount of use cases for thinking it's more if you're in business. I think if you want to create images, you are restricted to three images per day on the free account in if you want to make use of memory then it has a more lightweight memory. Memory is a feature that came out some months ago which now memorizes things across your chats, which I find personally really useful because then it starts to learn things about you beyond the chat that you're in. And I'll give you some use cases from my point of view where I find it really useful. The free account can do some amazing things. Most of the features you can use, but most of the features are limited in usage. If you are just a beginner, that may not be a problem whatsoever. Okay, and before we dive into the use cases, just a couple more things. One of the things that ChatGPT does is it learns within a chat. So I always say my tip is when you are having a conversation with ChatGPT, think of it as a conversation with another person. From a business point of view, I would Suggest you think of it as talking to your latest hire, your junior member of the team, where you're delegating stuff and asking questions. And so think of it as a conversation. Unlike a traditional Google search, we can ask it to do something and then we can follow up and carry on the chat. And one of the things that's great about ChatGPT is it remembers what happened earlier on in the chat. Even if we've turned memory off, it will remember inside the chat. And that's really powerful. But we do have to bear in mind there's a context window. In other words, it can only hold so much stuff in memory at a time. After a while it, it forgets. And that's measured by what's called tokens. A token is essentially 0.7 of a word. If you have a really long chat, avenue will get to the point where the earlier parts of the chat will drop out of its memory. And you need to be aware of that because sometimes we start a chat where the very first post that we make, the first prompt has all the key context and details and that's the stuff that if it gets forgotten, eventually we'll start seeing garbage coming out. If we're having long chats that go on for a long time, just ask it to summarize what you've discussed so far, summarize the key issues and then that stuff will be back up front of memory for the next several prompts. Start a brand new chat. Every time you are going to start something completely different, a new project. And you'll find that before long you will probably end up with lots and lots of chats, as you will see with mine. So I'm going to switch across right now to my account. This is my account. You will see I have some different features. All these things with icons are custom GPTs. It's a powerful feature of the plus and the team plan. And also there's some folders which are my projects. And then below that is my history of chat and I must have hundreds and hundreds of chat messages going on. Let's talk about use cases. What can we use it for? I'm going to focus on non business. There are many things we can use it for in our businesses, in our accounting firms. Whether it's strategic planning, financial analysis, whether it's business advisory, marketing, content creation, creating SOPs, standard operating procedures. There are dozens and dozens of use cases from a business point of view. And sometimes people think it's just for business. But no, there are so many things from a personal point of view and I would guess I use it, I know I use it every single day for business, but I probably use it every single day for personal use. There's always something I'm using it for. So let's have a look. Let's look at some things that we can do and the first one I am going to show you and just bear me a second because I'm going to open the prompt up so I can show it to you. So one of the things that we can do, one of the things that when it came out, I love this, it can understand images, we can feed it images into the chat and many use cases. Back in July of last month, I about to leave Portugal for a couple of weeks to go and visit family in the UK. And the evening before leaving, as often happens when we leave for a vacation, there's food in the fridge. Some of that food is, is not going to last by the time we get back. So what am I going to make with it? So what I did was I took a photograph of, I got the key things out of the fridge. I took a photograph with my iPhone. I did the whole this by the way, on my phone. I took a photograph of the contents and I said this, I said make a list of all the food you can see. And so it went away and it listed everything. Now I asked it to make a list first. This is a two stage prompt. I asked it for a list because sometimes it does make a few mistakes and in this case it did. It was 90% correct. It was extraordinary how it picked up things from. If you look at this image, it's not that clear but it picked up most things correct. I just had to correct a few things and I had to say the tin mackerel is actually chickpeas and the rice is tabbouleh and you miss the cream. In Portuguese it's called nata para cocina. And so that was, it gave me the chance to correct it. That's why I asked for a list of it. And this list by the way, was created in something like three seconds. It's really that quick. So then what I said was give me recipe ideas for dinner using as many ingredients as possible and we must eat the chickpeas because I want, I love chickpeas and I really didn't want to waste chickpeas so I asked it for recipe ideas and it came up with a number of ideas. Creamy chickpea and spinach skillet with crispy ham and tabbouleh. And it then gave me the step by step cooking instructions. And then I didn't actually understand how to cook one of the ingredients. So I took a photograph because it's in Portuguese. So I took a photograph of the cooking instructions in Portuguese and said I'm going to have couscous instead translate the cooking instructions. And then it did that. And then when we got back from the uk, we'd not been shopping, so I took some stuff out the fridge and I said, give me some, identify the stuff there and give me a whole bunch of recipes. So that's a fun use case but really practical. Take photograph of your fridge and ask it to come up with meal ideas. Second use case. I want to share with you, some of you. Steve, you will know this. I am a fan of beer. I love beer. I also love wine since I've been in Portugal, but I do love my beer. And sometime earlier this year I was on vacation, Czech Republic. I was in Prague and of course I had no idea which one would be my favorite. So I then took a photograph and then asked it to. I gave it a bit of my beer tastes and asked it then which one it would recommend. And the one it recommended was superb. So I have a. I now have a chat, which if I just go to my sidebar, one of the things that I love is if you can't find your chats, then you can always just use the search. So if I typed in beer, it's going to come up with hopefully my beer prompt in a few seconds. There you go, beer. So again, this is a great use case. Now what happens is it builds up, it's starting to understand over time my preferences. In fact, just the other day we have a rooftop bar in and they have a happy hour and they specialize in beer and they have this chalkboard with all these beers on. It's hard to read it. I took a photograph and just said, which of these beers will I like? Give me the top five in order. And then it went through and said the top five. Well, it got that one 100% right because I love that beer. It's a Belgian beer. But I'd not had the second one. So that was the one I ordered. It's a German Weissbier. And at the end of it, what I then did, as I said, I chose number two and it's very nice. In other words, I wanted to make sure it knew that I liked that one. And it then recommended that I actually would probably like even more the Dunkel version. Well, I know I would. So now I'M on a mission to go and find that somewhere. So that's beer recommendations. Now, it might be you're not a beer drinker, but you could do the same idea with whether it's books or films. If you ever want recommendations for new films, new books, new music to listen to, start a chat called beer, beer, books, wine, films, whatever it is that you like and start to tell it what your current preferences are and then ask for recommendations and then afterwards give it some feedback. I watched that film, I didn't like it because of this. And then it will update its memory within that chat to start to better identify what it is that you like. So that's getting recommendations. Okay, next one that's a really cool use case is travel planning. These are scattered all over the place. So I create a prompt for doing travel planning and it's quite a long prompt, as you'll see. If you follow me regularly, you'll know that we do get better responses when we're more specific with our prompts. Sometimes we can just do a quick prompt, but sometimes we will get a better result if we craft better prompts. One of the things that I do is I have a library of prompts. If you're in the AI academy, you've probably got access to this with dozens and dozens of prompts that I've created where you can just grab them and copy and paste them straight into ChatGPT. It's a huge time saver. And one of them is my travel planning prompt. Let me just read a few bits to it to you so I can explain a few things. So it starts off with role and objective. So you are to act as an expert travel agent specializing in personal itineraries with in depth knowledge of cultural sites, accommodations, transportation and authentication, local experiences. One of the things we know from prompt engineering is give it a role to play and it will give a better result. And then I've got the instructions of what I want it to do and I've got very detailed instructions. But I've put in here I want a clear step by step plan for a number of days, trip destination for travelers originating from origin. These things here in curly brackets are variables. So I'm a big fan of creating systems, things that we can just reuse over and over again. When you have a prompt that you really like and you want to reuse it but for a different circumstance, then save that prompt some and use variables. So think of these as placeholders. But if these were placeholders, and every time I'd have to search through this prompt and put in the destination here. I'd have to go through and find all the placeholders. What I do is I put them in curly brackets and then at the end of the prompt have a section called variables. So all I would need to do is copy and paste this prompt and then just say, how many days? Three days. I'll go to Croatia. It's gonna be me and Sarah. We hate museums, I'm an outdoors person. Our budget's $5,000, so I'm very specific with instructions. And then I give it some guidance as to the process I want it to go through what I wanted to create the outline and I want some feedback loops in here before it then delivers my final itinerary and some guidance on the output format and a few rules that it must obey. So the first thing it does is it asks me for some more information. So I've asked it to check with me other things. And so I just did a quick answer, which by the way, if to save you typing, you can just hit on the dictate button and just dictate your answer. And so having done that, it planned my three day Croatia itinerary. It asked a few more questions to confirm. It had a couple of questions. Would I like to base it in Split or Dubrovnik and is there any special experience I'd like to build in? And I said, yep, let's make it split, but with a business, a trip to Dubrovnik and I'd love to do an island hopping boat trip as part of the trip. So it's now gone and created, built that into the three day itinerary. And then what it's going to do, because it's in the prompt, is it's going to ask if I approve of this itinerary. And if I say yes, approved, I approve. Will do. It will. Now, as you'll see in just a very short space of time, it should now create my finished itinerary. Now it's taken a bit longer because since the start of August 2025, we now have ChatGPT 5 and ChatGPT 5, unless you specifically tell it otherwise by selecting the instant or the thinking. In this case, it's choosing to do the thinking, and that means it may take 15, 20 seconds. What you find is that you'll get a better response if it thinks things through, but it does take a bit of time. If you want the answer straight away, it will just use the instant. And that's fine for most things. If you want to know what the capital of Italy is just go with instant or it should actually do that anyway and just say Romeo straight away. It's one of the new things we've got inside with this GPT5. Right, next idea, next thing that as it's thinking I love it for health and fitness. Some of you know I'm a health fitness freak, so what can we do with health and fitness? Well, there's lots of different if you care about your health, lots of great things that we can do. So one of the things that I've done is I've given chatgpt my medical records. I got those when I came to Portugal, my entire history of medical records and it's a file something like that thick and what I did is I've got them all as a PDF series of PDF files and I put them into ChatGPT. Now I use a project for health and fitness. Let me just show you this very quickly as I go across to here. So I use a project for health and fitness. One of the things about having a project is you can pre upload files like your medical history and you can also set some custom instructions specifically for it. And that means every time you start a brand new chat inside a project it will have access to those files. In my case, it has access to all my medical records and also it's really useful then for understanding test results. So for example, earlier on this year I had a bit of a pain in my back and it moved around a bit and I started to get just a little bit concerned and I'm not the sort of person that goes for the doctors, I'm terrible. Like most men I put things off but I find a bit, it felt a bit strange so I thought let me just go to the clinic down the road, which I've heard are really good. And they decided, amongst other things to do a quick blood test. I went back, they emailed or whatsapped the results to me and everything was fine and they gave me some anti inflammatory pills. Within about five days it had gone completely, never come back. But anyway, I had the blood test results but they're all A, they're in Portuguese and B, even in English I wouldn't have understand what the numbers meant. So I took a photograph of the blood test results, put it into ChatGPT, asked it to translate into English and explain and it gave me this fantastic report explaining what the numbers meant and then giving me an interpretation on my health. And the good news was everything was fine, my bloods were perfectly okay and so what I've then done is that blood test is also uploaded into ChatGPT into that project, along with my medical records and many other pieces of data. So from a health point of view, I find really useful. I can just give it data, I can give it test results and ask it to interpret. Then we can also use it for diagnosing issues. And one of the things that Sam Altman said is that ChatGPT5 is a huge leap forward in its ability to diagnose medical issues. And before you start thinking, hang on a second, we shouldn't be self diagnosing, we should use doctors. There was a famous research study done back at the end of 2024 where they found that the mistakes that doctors made with diagnosis was actually pretty scary. AI on its own got much, much better results in terms of the number of times it correctly diagnosed issues. And part of the study was, well, why is AI on its own better than AI plus doctors? And they said that was probably because of bias that's crept in with the doctors. So, personally, I love AI for giving me advice on medical issues. Now, one of the things about doing that is what AI is great at is exploring huge amounts of data. And so if you do want to use it for health and fitness, one of the things you want to do is give it as much data as possible. The more data it's got, the better the results you are going to get from a health and fitness point of view. You can ask it to create workout plans for you if you want to start working out, if you want to have diet plans, it will create complete diet plans for you. I think it's fantastic for that. And then let me just show you one other thing that I do because it'll illustrate another powerful feature of ChatGPT. I use it to track health metrics. And earlier this year I bought some of these fancy scales. Perhaps you've seen them. They're scales where you stand on with bare feet and you also hold, there's some sensors and you hold them. And what it does, it doesn't just measure your weight, it measures your body mass composition. It measures things like the proportion of fat, the proportion of skeletal mass and muscle mass and so on. And what it produces, the one that we've got is it produces these reports which you can export as PNG files. Now, these reports, when I first looked at it, I thought, what on earth does all this mean? I've got all these measurements on my body. So what I do is every Friday before I do my gym session, Sarah and I both take Our measurements from this, it takes a few seconds down the scales, grab the report, grab the PNG, and then I import it into ChatGPT, into one of my health chats called a body composition trend analysis. And I ask it to identify the most important measures from a health point of view. I asked it to explain them to me, and I also ask it to compare them to the previous ones. And as I upload one every Friday, it's building up the pattern of those measures. And so I find it fascinating, the health advice I get every week. It tells me the trends in things like my fat mass, my visceral fat, my skeletal mass, which is particularly useful for me because I was diagnosed a few years ago with osteopenia. Being a cyclist, it's very common, and I've done a lot of things to counteract that now. And these reports tell me that my bone mass is pretty good. So, well, pretty normal. We can take data like this, that could be a PNG image file. We can upload it to ChatGPT and it can read all the numbers. It's fascinating how it can read these numbers, analyze this and give us some useful feedback. And then if you are using a plus account or teams account and you're using the new agent mode, we can go a step further. With agent mode, we can put a whole load of these into ChatGPT, and with the right prompt, we can then get it to analyze it all and take this unstructured data and create structured data by putting into a CSV file. So I created this CSV file using ChatGPT, where it took 10 weeks worth of measurements and created a huge file of data. And why might that be useful? Well, if you're an accountant in practice, how many times do you get data from clients that's completely unstructured, like weekly taking sheets, all handwritten? You can, with the right agent prompt, you can take that data and you can get it to structure it in CSV file. Really powerful. Okay, so I've spent a bit of time on that just because I think health and safety is really important. Let's move on to another use case. I love it for product research. If ever I want to buy it. That what I used to do is I'd go to Amazon and look for reviews, or I'd go to Google and look for people who've reviewed things. But actually there's a better way of doing it now, and that's using a feature called deep research or agent mode, if you want. But if you want a free account still, you do have access to Deep research. It's came out back in January 2025. It's one of the very, very best things that chat GPT is good for. And so let me show you, let me show you. I think it's probably the easiest way of explaining this. Here we go. So when you are doing deep research, there is one of the tools where it says add files and more called deep research. So you must turn deep research on to do this. And what I did. Let me go back to my prompt. I use this many times for buying all sorts of things whenever I want to buy something. And I've turned this into a. If you're in the AI academy, I will share this prompt. I use this frequently. I've got a couple of variables, product and needs. If I just go to the end product. I'm a cyclist, by the way. So imagine I want to buy a new road bike. That's what I want to buy. That's the product. But that could be anything, any product. You want to buy a fitness app, you want to buy a new washing machine, whatever it might well be. I just put in that under product. And then what do I need? Well, I want it for rides of between 50 and 100k kilometers. My budget's up to 5000. I want drop handle bars. You just give it some requirements. And this is what's great about deep resources search is that unlike doing a Google search of people's reviews, it will look for things that meet your specific needs. What are you looking for in this product? Everything I've bought as a result of the advice has been extraordinary. I bought a coffee machine. I've got a health app, a journaling app. I use it for so many things. Now the one thing that's interesting about deep research, though, it works very different to anything else. The first thing it will do is ask some clarifying questions which. So it asked me five questions which I then answered and then it goes and does the deep research. Now this stage, it goes off and it can spend rather than about 3, 4, 5 seconds. It typically takes anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes. So go away and make a cup of tea, go and do something else. Because it goes and analyzes things in huge amounts of detail. Now you could instead use the search option web search. Web search is great. It'll search the Internet. The shortfall of web search is it typically only looks at five different sites and usually ones that appear high up on the list of Google. What deep research does is it goes much deeper. It searches more websites to Find out exactly what's best for your needs. So that's why I would use Deep Research. If I'm buying a product rather than a quick web search, I don't mind it taking me 10 minutes to. Because this could save me a lot of pain buying the wrong thing. So what it does in this case, it took nine minutes. Nine minutes. And it did 52 searches with 20 sources. So it went to 20 different websites, 52 searches to do the report. And as it does it, over the nine minutes, it will talk through and show you what it's doing. I find it fascinating sometimes. You can see its thought process, you can see the sites it's visiting. And then the other great thing about Deep Research is it produces highly powerful reports for you. Now the report, you can specify how you want it. So in the prompt I say I want a summary of each product identified with a brief explanation together. Pros and cons. I want a comparison table, I want the top three recommendations and then I want a TLDR summary. So what it's done for me is it's just overview of what I'm looking for in terms of bikes and then it's gone through. And for each one it's found, you can see it's got given you all of the source it's gone to. You can always click through if you want to check it out. So I've got the Specialized Roubaix pros and cons. It's this stage. Sarah's thinking, oh no, Mark's about to buy another bike. I might do so the Trek domain pros and cons. I've got the Canyon and these, I know cycling well. I know these are all great bikes. So it's giving me a whole bunch of different bikes that would meet my specific needs with the pros and cons. I then get this comparison table and then it's going to give me the top three recommendations and why. And if I can't bother to read it, it'll just be, give me a quick TLDR summary. That's product research. If I ever buy anything, that's the prompt I use. I use Deep Research. Everything I've bought as a result of this year has been a great recommendation. Save me wasting time searching through sites and doing reviews and stuff. As long as you happy to wait nine minutes and go make a cup of tea or something. I think it's awesome. Okay, next, really powerful use case from a fun point of view, from a personal point of view. Have you ever been to a foreign country where you don't know the language. Really good for translations and learning foreign languages. So let me just give you a very quick example. I'll give you two use cases. So firstly, Sarah and I live in Portugal and one of the things I have is a project which is full of my Portuguese. So I have a prompt here called Portugal Daily. Here's the cleaner turned up today. I have this one. Walk me through a four minute daily conversation I can have with my cleaner when she arrives at my house because I never know what to say to her. So here we go. Here's a conversation that I could have with her over four minutes. So I could say hola bundi. And she might respond, bom di obrigada y constigo. And I might say tambaim turu baim obrigado. So I might start talking to my cleaner now so we can use it for learning foreign languages. And there's all sorts of different prompts you can use. You could get to do flashcards, all sorts of different ways of learning a different language. So that's awesome. And it's also awesome for translations. Very useful to me being in Portugal. If I get, for example, a tax document, I just scan it, photograph it, ask ChatGPT, translate it. If you ever go. Let's imagine you go to Croatia and you go to a cafe or a bar or a restaurant and they give you a menu and it's all in Croatian. All you need to do is grab your phone with ChatGPT, take a photograph of the menu, say, can you please translate this? And it will translate the entire menu into your language. English, I'm guessing, or what I sometimes do, just like my beer example where it knows my beer tastes. Rather than saying translate it, I might just simply say, here's a menu in Portuguese. Can you recommend what would be the top three things I'm likely to like? So rather than translating the whole menu, it'll say, what are the three things in English that I will probably like from the menu? So amazing use case. It's really good with anything to do with foreign currencies, foreign languages, whether it's learning those languages, whether it's getting translations of things. Another thing that's really cool, I do recommend that you put it on your phone because your phone's with you all the time. The number of times I've used it when I'm out and about. I showed you earlier the beer one where just a few days ago saw the happy hour board of beers and I just took my photograph. So when you got it on the phone. When it's on your phone then in fact, if I just go to the here, I think my beer one is here somewhere. Here's my beer one. So I just took a snap. I took a photograph of that board and then said, which of these beers will I like? Give me the top five in order. There's a little plus icon in the bottom left. When you click on the plus, you can take a photo. You can grab a photo from your photo library and you've also got access to all of the tools. Having on the phone is amazing and also it's great because you've got both dictation and advanced voice mode. If you don't want to sit there typing on a phone. I hate typing on a phone. We can dictate instead. So I do recommend you have it on your phone. In fact, in my case, I have it on the on my iPhone. It's one of the four apps that's pinned to the bottom of every single screen because I use ChatGPT so much. So what else can you do with it? Well, you can convert handwritten notes to text. So if you've ever seen handwritten notes, scribbled notes, perhaps they're your notes, perhaps they are somebody else's notes. Then just take a photograph. I had a post it note of my to do list that was scribbling notes a little while ago. And so you could very quickly you could just take a photograph with your phone and say convert these handwritten notes to text. And it did it pretty well. There was just one small mistake. It misread FRP for financial reporting pack as fpp. But other than that, that's my little to do list turned into notes. And then it asked me if it wants me to then turn it into an action plan or something. So that's a use case. Handwritten note into text. Really useful. Let's do a couple more very quick ones. I could go on for any. There are so many practical use cases I love it for. Have you ever had a legal document to look at? Well, one of the things we can do is we can feed it a legal document and ask it to analyze it and tell us what are onerous clauses, unfair clauses and we can ask it to act as a lawyer and give us advice linked to that. Another I have one called Will Writer and one called Will Updater. So if you need to update your will, then rather than going to a lawyer, one of the things that you could do is just give ChatGPT a copy of your old Will and then say you are a will writing expert and legal document drafter. And what I want you to do is to. I want you to create a new will. I've just updated my will because it was very out of date and it was done in just seconds, just by feeding it the old will and asking it to rewrite it. What else is it really good for? Do things ever go wrong when you're at home? Things break and they need fixing. That can be really frustrating. So one of the things that I really love ChatGPT for is troubleshooting ideas. For example, we have a well under our driveway, which is really good, and we have a pump that pumps water into a huge great big green tank that's in our pool room. And then the pump will then use that water for the pool, for the sprinkler system, for the outdoor taps, which means that our water bill every month is something crazy like €10, €15. That's it. Because a lot of our heavy usage, the outdoor stuff, is all from the well. The trouble is it stopped working about a month or so ago. So I went to the pool room. I had no idea what this thing does. So I took a couple of photographs of. There was an error little reading and it had all this sticker on the front of the control unit and basically I had no idea. I took the photographs and I went to ChatGPT and said, can you explain how my pump system works in the pool room? And it came back and I don't know if I could. Let me see if I can find it quickly what it came up with, but it was amazing. The result it came up came back with, if I just go to here. So I fed it those photographs. I've gone too far because that's lots of other things that go wrong. So I said, I need help with our water system. We have a well. And I. So I explained all the issue is and it said, thanks for the images. You have a. Whatever. This particular digital controller, it knows all about my controller. And then it went through and gave a clear explanation of all the numbers that were in Portuguese. And as it turned out, we'd had a power cut a while earlier and so it crashed the system. It just needs a reboot. It was actually pretty simple, but I now have these full instructions for how the pump works in our house, which I think is extraordinary. And we've done that for so many things. When computers break, whatever goes wrong, we just give it to ChatGPT and say, help us diagnose this problem. If you're a beginner. Start simple but use frequently. The more you use this tool you will start to realize it can do some extraordinary things in your life to save you hours of time. The more you use it, the more you'll figure out some amazing stuff. I also recommend though that if you're using it for business use, if it's business use, do not use the free account and don't use the plus account because there are privacy and security and client confidentiality issues. If you use it for in your accounting firm for example and you wanted to analyze financial statements, you are going to be in breach of data protection laws if you are on the free and the plus account. Also please in the comments. What was the most useful use case? Which one are you going to start using? Let me know in the comments. What's the best use case? I would love to know. Bye for now.