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Every ChatGPT Work Concept Explained for Normal People

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Every ChatGPT Work Concept Explained for Normal People

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Okay, you've heard that Chat GPT work is

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incredibly powerful and it's supposed to

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make your life a lot easier. But with so

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many features and terms like plugins,

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computer use, and local folders, you

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don't even know where to get started.

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Trust me, I get that. I was in the same

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boat when I first looked at Chat GPT

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work. But I figured out that

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understanding it really just comes down

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to learning 10 simple concepts. Once you

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understand these, Chat GPT work will

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finally click and everything else about

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it will make a lot more sense. So just

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give me a couple minutes and I will

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explain all 10 of these concepts in a

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very simple way that I promise you

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you're going to understand. We'll start

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by coming to chat.openai.com.

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Up here at the top you'll find a toggle

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where you can switch between chat and

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work. And this is the first concept I

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want to cover. When you should be using

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work and when you should just use chat.

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And the distinction is very important

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because if you come down to your name on

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the bottom left and click on that and

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click on settings, you'll find a setting

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in here for usage. This is your weekly

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usage limit for Chat GPT work. But this

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limit doesn't apply to chat

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conversations. So the more that you can

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use chat conversations, the further that

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your Chat GPT subscription is going to

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go because it's not going to count

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against this usage limit. So, when do

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you use chat and when do you use work?

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The simplest way to think about this is

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that chat is for answers, explanations,

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brainstorming, anywhere where you're

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going to have a back and forth just

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conversation. And work is for delegating

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a project or task with a finished result

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that you can review. I have a few

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examples here to highlight the

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difference. So here I used chat to ask

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Chat GPT what are the latest

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breakthroughs in robotics. It worked for

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about a minute, did some research, and

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pulled together this answer in the chat

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telling me all the current breakthroughs

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in robotics. On the other hand, I then

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used Chat GPT work and asked it to put

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together a report for me in Notion that

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details what are the latest

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breakthroughs in robotics, and asked it

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to create a new database for me, and

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then create an infographic highlighting

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one of the most interesting ideas, and

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put it in an email draft for me. Here

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you can see it worked for 5 minutes, and

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it created this database inside of

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Notion with all of these different

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breakthroughs as separate pages. It also

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created for me this image, and attached

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it to an email draft ready for me to

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send. So, with Chat, I just asked it a

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question, but with Work, I actually gave

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it an assignment with an end product,

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both the database in Notion and the

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infographic. And that's another

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distinction. If you need it to create

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and do multiple things for you, Work is

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usually the better solution. And if it's

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something that's going to take longer,

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Work is usually the better choice. The

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key is just to make sure that you're

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using the right tool for the right type

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of query. That way, you are able to

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maximize your Chat GPT subscription. For

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that last example, I showed you how to

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use Chat GPT Work on the web, but now I

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want to show you how to use it on the

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desktop app, because it unlocks some

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additional capabilities. So, if you

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haven't done this already, come to

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chat.openai.com

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/download,

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and make sure you download the desktop

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app. Here is mine right here, and it

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looks very similar to what we saw on the

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web. Up here at the top, we can switch

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between Chat and Work. But what's

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different about the desktop app is this

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feature right here that says choose

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project. You can select a folder on your

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computer that Chat GPT will work inside

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of, and it'll have access to all of the

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files inside that folder. So, if we

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click here where it says add folders,

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you can then select the folder that you

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want Chat GPT to have access to. So, I

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could select this one right here, for

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instance, that says my notes, and then

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click on open. And now I can ask Chat

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GPT questions about what's in that

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folder or ask it to create things in

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that folder. So for instance, I might

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ask it, "Just give me a quick recap of

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everything in this folder." And here you

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can see it did that. It went through, it

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saw that there were 19 files, and gave

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me a recap of all of them. So I followed

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up with it and said, "Okay, now take the

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data from all those documents and insert

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them into the spreadsheet that already

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exists in that folder." And it did that

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for me. We can see that information

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that's been added to that spreadsheet

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right here. So the point is it can not

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only read what's in the folders, but

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also make updates to the files. So I'll

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call that feature local access. It

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allows you to maintain control over your

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files without uploading them to the

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cloud. But ChatGPT work can connect to

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all of the popular third-party tools

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that you probably use, and you can do

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that with plugins. Plugins can be found

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right here on the left by clicking where

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it says plugins. And this is the third

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concept that I want to cover. It gives

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ChatGPT access to all of these different

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tools that you probably already use to

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run your business. So we have some very

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popular ones here like Gmail. You can

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connect to Google Sheets. You can

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connect to Notion, which I showed you

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before, Google Calendar, and Asana. You

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can also search for any plugin to see if

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it's available. Here for instance, I

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will search for Granola. And then to add

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any plugins, you click right here where

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it says install. That will then open up

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your browser where you can sign in to

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your app. So here I will sign in using

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my Granola login. It'll then ask you to

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allow access, you click on that, and

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then it'll take you back to ChatGPT.

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Then to use the plugin, just type in the

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at symbol and type in the name of the

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plugin, and ChatGPT work will be able to

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use that when you are giving it work.

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All these plugins will work a little bit

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differently, but usually Chat GPT work

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cannot only pull information from the

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plugin, but can also write to the

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plugin. So, for example, with Notion, it

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not only has the ability to read notes

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in my Notion account, but like I showed

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you before, it can also create new

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notes. The next concept I want to talk

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about are scheduled tasks. You can find

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those by clicking on the left here where

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it says scheduled. And these are pretty

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easy to understand. You can have Chat

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GPT automatically run tasks for you.

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What most people get wrong about these

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though is that they think that scheduled

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tasks can only run once per day, but

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that's not true. You can have them run

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multiple times per day or maybe once a

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month if you wanted to, and it can even

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do things like monitor situations and

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update you if there's some change. For

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instance, right here is a scheduled task

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that I set up last month for a flight

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status watch. And clicking on it, you

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can see what the task is. I basically

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just asked Chat GPT to keep an eye on

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two different flights and to update me

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if there were any meaningful changes

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like a delay, a cancellation, or a gate

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change. Setting one of these up is very

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easy. You just click on the left here

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where it says new chat, make sure you

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have work selected, and just describe

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what you want Chat GPT to monitor or

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what task you want it to run on a

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schedule. Something as simple as

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everyday at 8:00 a.m., check my email

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inbox for any new emails and draft

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replies for all of them. And then it'll

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go and set that up on a schedule for

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you. This next concept is one of my

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favorite things that you can do with

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Chat GPT work. Now, it only works on the

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desktop app, but once you have it open,

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click on the top right here where it

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says toggle side panel. That opens a

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browser inside of Chat GPT. So, you can

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click up here and navigate to any

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website that you want, and it'll keep

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you logged in between sessions. Because

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this is inside of ChatGPT though, you

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can always ask ChatGPT questions about

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what's on the page that you're looking

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at or just ask ChatGPT to take over the

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browser for you. For instance, here I

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will tell it to go through my X feed and

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find posts that are getting a lot of

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engagement. So here you can see it is

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now scrolling through my feed for me and

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taking over and looking and doing this

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research for me. That's not too exciting

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because that's something I probably do

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faster myself. But imagine now I set

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that up as a scheduled task. Browser

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control like this isn't anything new.

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It's existed for a while now. But in the

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past you needed a Chrome extension for

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it to work. But because it's built into

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the ChatGPT app, I find that it works

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really well and I'm using it a lot more,

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especially with those scheduled tasks.

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So I can have my research done for me

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and waiting for me every morning. This

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thing can fill in forms for you, do

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research that requires access to a real

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browser, reply to messages. Honestly, it

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can do so much that I could probably

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make an entire video just on browser use

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because it unlocks so many cool use

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cases. If that's something you'd be

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interested in, just let me know in the

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comment section down below. If enough

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people want it, I'll make a full video

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on the ChatGPT browser and everything

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that I've discovered that you can do

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with it. But what if the tool you want

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to use is not in a browser, but is

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instead an app on your computer? For

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that, you can use computer use. Using

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the desktop app, type in @ symbol and

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type in the name of the app you want

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ChatGPT to use. For this example, I will

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type in notes because I want computer

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use to be able to access and write for

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me a new note inside of Apple Notes.

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With that selected, I will now tell it,

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"Create my to-do list as a new note in

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the Notes app in the folder called new

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folder." You can see on the right now it

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is writing out that list for me. And it

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even has its own cursor, so it can work

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in the background without disrupting

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what I'm doing in the foreground.

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Computer use works with every app on

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your computer, meaning ChatGPT can open

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it up and complete tasks for you inside

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of those apps. The next concept you need

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to know about are skills. Skills are

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just repeatable workflows. So, if you

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come back to this example where I asked

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ChatGPT Work to put together a report

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for me inside of Notion about the latest

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in robotics, I really like what ChatGPT

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Work produced for me. It created a bunch

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of pages in Notion for me, and it

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created an infographic. So, now every

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time I ask it to do research or to put

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together a research report for me, I

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want it to do this exact same thing. Set

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it up in Notion and create an

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infographic. So, I can turn that into a

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skill. And skills are so easy to set up

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because you just ask ChatGPT Work to set

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up the skill for you. I'll do that right

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here. I'm asking it to create a skill,

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so every time I ask it to put together a

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research report for me, it will build

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something similar in Notion and the

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infographic just like it did here. Now,

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you can see that it created that skill.

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You can see it called it research report

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notion skill. And in the future, if I

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ever want to use that skill again, I can

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just say something as simple as create a

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research report for me about and then

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just type in the subject that I want the

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report about, and it'll automatically

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use that skill. The next concept you

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need to know about are sites. ChatGPT

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Sites will use ChatGPT to build out an

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entire website for you, including

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hosting. So, right here you can see some

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examples. I built out a website for a

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seventh-grade science class, and you can

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see it has all the homework for the week

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here, upcoming tests that are coming,

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class rules, and study resources. Here's

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another one that I put together for a

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birthday party and all the information

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about the birthday party and you can

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RSVP in here, but you can also use this

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to build personalized dashboards. So,

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here's one that I built that gets

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updated every morning and it's an email

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triage where it goes through my email

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inbox, answers all or drafts replies to

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all the emails and triages it and then

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puts together this dashboard for me. And

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because it hosts the websites, I can

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access this on my phone or from any

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computer, so I can do it on the go.

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Building a site is really easy because

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all you have to do is come over and type

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in @site and then describe what you want

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the site to look like and what you want

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it to do and it will build it out for

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you. I made an entire video about all

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the cool things you can do with ChatGPT

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sites. I'll link that up at the end and

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I'll also have it up here for you if you

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want to just jump to it right now. As

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we've been using ChatGPT work, there's

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something that's silently been happening

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in the background that you need to be

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aware of. Some of the tasks that we've

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started only exist here on my computer

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and others are in the cloud. You come

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over here to your recent tasks and you

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hover over them, it will reveal which

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tasks are which. This one for instance

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says that it runs in the cloud. This one

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on the other hand runs on your computer.

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And that's the next concept you have to

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understand, the difference between local

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tasks and cloud-based tasks. Here inside

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the desktop app for instance, I will

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click right here on this computer icon

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and switch to in the cloud. Then I'll

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just type in task like find some

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trending AI topics and add them to a new

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doc in Google Docs. And as that's

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working, I can use the ChatGPT app on my

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phone and see the exact same task here

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because that's all happening in the

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cloud. So, what's the real difference

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between local tasks and cloud tasks?

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Well, cloud tasks don't need your

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computer on in order for them to run. I

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can start the task here in the desktop

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app, on the web app, on my phone, and

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then turn off that device and it will

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still run and I can pick it up again

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from any other device. A local task

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though, one that runs on my computer, it

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needs my computer to be on and the

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ChatGPT app to be open for the task to

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run. I can still access it from my

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phone, but only if my computer is on.

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Some tasks need to be local on your

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computer and that involves anything that

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requires local access, like if I give it

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access to files on my computer, that

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requires it to use on your computer

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local tasks because obviously it needs

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that connection to the files on my

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computer. Also, if I'm using computer

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use, obviously I have to have selected

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on your computer in order for that to

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work. But for everything else, it can be

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cloud-based. That includes all the

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plugins and any tasks and schedule tasks

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that don't require access to local

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files. The next concept you have to

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learn is how to master the ChatGPT app

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on your phone. So when you open up the

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app, up here at the top, you'll be able

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to switch between chat and work, just

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like I showed you before. And over here

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on the left, under recents, you will see

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all your recent chats, which are always

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cloud-based, and you will see all of

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your recent ChatGPT work tasks that are

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also cloud-based. So for instance, right

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here it says robotics breakthrough

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report. If I select this one, this is a

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ChatGPT work task, but I'm able to see

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it here and continue this conversation

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and task inside of this because it is

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cloud-based, because we had selected

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cloud for this one.

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But what if it is a local task? Let's

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say I'm using the ChatGPT desktop app

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and I started a task like this one right

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here that as you can see is running on

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my computer. Well, like I mentioned

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before, if I then turn my computer off,

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I will not be able to access this task.

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I will not be able to see it on any

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other device. However, as long as my

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computer remains on and this ChatGPT app

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remains open on my computer, then I can

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access it from the ChatGPT app on my

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phone. To do that, you can click on the

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left menu and click on remote. Then at

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the top here, you want to select the

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computer that's running that task

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locally, which in this case is my

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MacBook. And then here, if I scroll down

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to all of the chats, I can see all of

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them right here. The ones that I started

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on my computer. And here is the task

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that we were just looking at. So, this

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is a way to remote into your computer

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using the ChatGPT app. The final concept

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I want to show you and one that I'm

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actually really excited to show you is

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the voice mode inside of ChatGPT work

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because it's really good. And using

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this, you can do everything else I

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already showed you. All you have to do

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is click right here to start a new voice

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chat and tell it what you want done.

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Hey, ChatGPT, can you hear me?

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>> Yep, I hear you loud and clear.

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>> All right. So, I need you to create a

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new site for me using your sites tool.

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And this will just be a quick site for a

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party I have coming up next month and

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that will be in Boulder, Colorado at

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5:00 p.m. on the 30th. So, just spin

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that up real quick. And then create

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another task where you go inside of my

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granola account and pull the latest

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meeting and get us

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like a synopsis of it or recap of it and

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send that over to John in a new email.

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Um John's contact is already in Gmail.

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He just sent me a message earlier today.

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So, just reply to that one.

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>> Let me take care of those.

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>> And now it's just going out and doing

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those tasks. So, everything that I've

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shown you that you can do inside of

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ChatGTP Work, it can do with voice mode.

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And you see here, the voice that I'm

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talking to is a delegator, and it's

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delegating this to other tasks. Here, it

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started a new chat that has the work

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that I want done for that meeting recap

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sent to John. So, it's not all being

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done in this one thread, it's actually

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sending it out to other chats, and then

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this one is just really the

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orchestrator. So, it's a really cool

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feature. I really encourage you to play

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around with it and to use it, interact

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with it, because it's a very natural way

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to work with ChatGTP Work. You now know

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all 10 of the most important concepts

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that you need to get the most out of

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ChatGTP Work. Now, it's time for you to

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jump in and start using it yourself.

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But, if you want to learn more about

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those ChatGTP sites I mentioned before,

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check out this video right here. Like I

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mentioned before, you can use this to

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create custom dashboards that will

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automatically update for you that you

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can then access on your phone. So, if

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you want to see what that's all about,

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click on this video right here, and I'll

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see you over there in 1 second. Bye for

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now.

Interactive Summary

This video provides a comprehensive guide to mastering ChatGPT Work by explaining 10 essential concepts. It covers the difference between Chat and Work, the advantages of the desktop app, features like local file access, plugin integration, scheduled tasks, browser control, computer use, skills, site creation, and the nuances between local and cloud-based tasks, concluding with the capabilities of voice mode.

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