August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
389 pages
6h 36m
English
book
Making ChatGPT Work for You: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI as a Non-Techie
by Lydia Evelyn
Overview
Gain a clear and practical understanding of ChatGPT, the cutting-edge language model that is revolutionizing how we create content, analyse data, and communicate. This book will be your essential companion for navigating the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI.
You’ll explore an army of diverse features boasted by ChatGPT, including web searching, analysing images, PDFs and other file types, image creation with ChatGPT’s DALL-E, and video generation with ChatGPT’s Sora. Highlighted by over 100 prompts, this book boasts step-by-step guides on how to use ChatGPT for a variety of tasks such as thesis writing, creating a sales report, and even creating a budget planner from actual receipts. Each chapter has a series of practical examples you can follow along with so you can try out the explanations for yourself. You’ll also learn how to use ChatGPT as a personal assistant, yet another tool to streamline and simplify productivity.
With these powerful capabilities in hand, Making ChatGPT Work for You is your prompt cookbook!
What You Will Learn
- Generate unique and engaging text for social media posts, blogs articles, and creative writing.
- Upload files and images to ChatGPT to analyse data, explain text, and analyse photos.
- Leverage ChatGPT to interpret and analyse datasets, provide insights and solutions, create budget plans, sales reports, and more.
- Use ChatGPT as a versatile educational tool for learning new skills.
- Work with ChatGPT’s DALL-E and Sora features to generate images and short videos for creating content for landing pages and YouTube videos.
Who This Book Is For
Professionals, students, educators, and content creators curious about AI and looking to use ChatGPT for practical applications.
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