Bing Chat (GPT 4) Tutorial: 12 Steps for Beginners to Advanced

00:00:00.000 | Bing Chat is an extraordinary tool that yes can make mistakes but which can also do amazing things

00:00:06.240 | and give you a real edge in whatever you want to do. This crash course will take us from complete

00:00:11.840 | beginners up to advanced users following 12 steps each of which is potentially more useful than the

00:00:18.800 | last. Step one starts by us going to bing.com and clicking chat. You'll see this screen with a chat

00:00:25.840 | input down below. If you don't see this and don't yet have access to the chatbot feature my tip is

00:00:31.600 | to follow the four instructions on the bing.com/new website which are to join the waitlist, set

00:00:37.760 | Microsoft defaults and install the bing app. You can easily undo these steps if you like once you're

00:00:43.120 | in and I gained access within about 48 hours. Alternatively to be honest bing chat access will

00:00:48.880 | be rolled out to everyone eventually. But before we can begin on what bing can do step two involves

00:00:54.480 | knowing the limits of bing. If you're a beginner you can start with bing chat and then you can

00:00:55.820 | start with bing chat. As of filming you have a 2000 character limit on inputs, a five message per

00:01:02.600 | conversation limit and a 50 message per 24 hour period cap. And one further interesting restriction

00:01:09.600 | to point out bing really doesn't like it if you try to talk to it about itself. It doesn't even

00:01:14.960 | like it if you ask it for its name. I've done a video on this. But now let's get to the good stuff.

00:01:19.440 | Step three you can link to articles, pdfs, academic papers and even physical

00:01:25.800 | text and engage in a dialogue with bing about what's inside. This is truly revolutionary.

00:01:32.500 | I linked to an article in today's new york times about how leonardo da vinci had thoughts about

00:01:37.780 | gravity even before newton and I simply asked eli5 explain it like i'm five. Of course bing

00:01:44.260 | understood that instruction but what's truly incredible is that it was able to read and

00:01:49.340 | digest an article from today, explain it in really simple language, try reading it yourself.

00:01:55.780 | Just look at the details it picks out. I could rave about this for ages I've just got so much more to

00:02:00.900 | show you. But what did I mean by engaging with physical text? You can take a photo of anything,

00:02:05.740 | for example this math problem. Send it to your desktop and then go to google image search. Drag

00:02:11.500 | the file onto the screen and this will happen. Click on text to extract the text. Grab the text,

00:02:18.520 | in this case the question and you can guess what's coming next. Yes that's right go to bing and paste

00:02:25.060 | the question in. Now you can see that bing has a lot of information about the text. It's a lot of

00:02:25.760 | information. I know the meme is that GPT powered models aren't good at math but as a math tutor I

00:02:30.480 | can say that's old news. I've done plenty of videos on this on my channel, check them out.

00:02:35.280 | But AI is getting a lot better at math fast. It gets this question right with a nice explanation.

00:02:40.880 | But imagine this for physical text that you want to explore in your environment.

00:02:44.960 | Three steps from the camera to a conversation with a super advanced AI about it. Incredible.

00:02:50.640 | But it's time for the next step, generating interesting ideas. This could be for youtube,

00:02:55.740 | instagram, tiktok, linkedin, whatever. To demonstrate I asked, generate five original

00:03:01.180 | youtube video ideas for a new consumer tech review channel. Detailing the novelty of each one,

00:03:06.620 | ensure the topics are trending in 2023 and write a detailed synopsis of each video with a hook,

00:03:12.380 | a challenge and a reveal. Feel free to steal any of these prompts by the way.

00:03:16.540 | And you can read the answers for yourself but I think they're pretty interesting. Any one of

00:03:21.020 | these would make a viable video idea, in this case for youtube. Let's read the first one, make a video

00:03:25.720 | about the mac mini 2023, the ultimate desktop computer question mark. And the video idea is to

00:03:30.820 | test the performance, the design, the features, talk about the m2 chip and how to optimize the

00:03:36.060 | mac mini experience. It gives specific examples of the tech that you could compare and suggestions

00:03:41.820 | of how to make your video different, like testing them out in different scenarios such as in the gym

00:03:46.980 | or at home. What about twitter? It can do that amazingly too. I follow Tim Urban, always coming

00:03:52.500 | up with new interesting ideas and I said write five real interesting ideas for youtube. Write

00:03:55.700 | down your original tweets in the style of Tim Urban. And these tweets were incredible. You can

00:04:00.000 | read all of them but take the fourth one. There are more stars in the observable universe than

00:04:04.520 | grains of sand on all the beaches on earth. But there are also more atoms in a single grain of

00:04:09.160 | sand than stars in the observable universe. So which is bigger, the universe or a grain of sand?

00:04:14.680 | I can imagine him asking that. But let's take this a step further by bringing in image generation.

00:04:19.440 | I asked Bing, generate five incredibly descriptive visual mid-journey prompts on topic four.

00:04:25.680 | It understood exactly what I meant and came up with these examples. I put them into mid-journey

00:04:30.300 | and here's what came out. A grain of sand magnified to reveal a complex microcosm. I think the third

00:04:36.300 | result is best here. Or what about the universe as a tiny speck inside a giant eye that belongs

00:04:41.500 | to an unknown cosmic entity? Look at the second example. These would definitely be eye-catching

00:04:46.760 | in a social media post. Just quickly, here are some of the others. A surreal collage of different

00:04:55.660 | images of the earth and the sun. I picked out just a couple of these examples to upscale into a full

00:05:03.800 | image with even more detail. And here was one of the results. That is an AI image you can attach to

00:05:10.760 | a tweet written by an AI. The world is getting really weird. Before we move on to the next step,

00:05:15.760 | let's not forget about the 80/20 principle. Yes, we might let Bing AI do 80% of the work,

00:05:21.760 | but you still have to fact check and make these posts, these ideas,

00:05:25.640 | even these image generations your own. I wouldn't recommend letting Bing do all the work. And I would

00:05:30.620 | definitely check its outputs. It does make mistakes. Next, what about using Bing search to actually,

00:05:36.740 | you know, search? Imagine you're looking to move home and look at the kind of search you can do

00:05:42.020 | with Bing AI. Compare property price trends, commute to King's Cross times, crime rates,

00:05:48.020 | median ages, and green spaces in the two London boroughs of Haringey versus Barnet. And here are

00:05:55.220 | the details.

00:05:55.620 | And of course, I could continue this conversation by asking more about green spaces, median age,

00:06:02.040 | etc. Compare this result to Google. Now, I still do use Google and will continue to. But honestly,

00:06:09.000 | these results are just not too useful. I would have to click on multiple links to even have a

00:06:15.420 | hope of coming up with some of the answers that I've already gotten. Let me give you two more

00:06:19.560 | examples to balance it out. I asked Bing list five electric car charging points nearest to Big Ben in

00:06:25.600 | London. And it gave me five charging points. And these do check out. They are near Big Ben,

00:06:31.240 | and they are suitable. But they are all from Q Park. And Google gave me more varied results. So

00:06:38.440 | I count that as a win for Google. Another win for Google came when I asked, where can I buy flowers

00:06:44.440 | nearest to the second option? It understood what I wanted, but gave me some online options. Even

00:06:49.780 | when I was more specific and said I need a physical store florist within 15 minutes walk, it gave me some

00:06:55.580 | pretty poor results. Google did much better. How about doing a search for shopping? Well,

00:07:01.100 | I asked for the best battery cases for the iPhone 14. And it gave me some good options. And then I

00:07:06.740 | was more specific. I want the biggest battery capacity and it must be under 30 pounds. These

00:07:12.620 | were some decent results, but I would have hoped for direct links for purchasing these cases.

00:07:17.660 | Remember, every click counts in the war between Google and Bing.

00:07:21.320 | Even when I said compare these two cases for me, which is what Bing suggests,

00:07:25.560 | I said, it did give me this nice table, but again, no direct links. And one extra slight warning. It

00:07:32.700 | suggested a case that isn't actually available in the UK, despite me making it fairly clear that I

00:07:39.000 | was from the UK by asking for the price in pounds. And of course, my IP being in the UK. So in terms

00:07:45.360 | of search, the wind still goes to Google, but Bing chat does have its use cases.

00:07:49.740 | The next step to being an advanced user is to use Bing AI to improve your writing. A

00:07:55.540 | student of mine wrote this as their introductory paragraph for their personal statement,

00:07:59.800 | a bit like a cover letter for a university. It's not bad, no spelling mistakes, but the writing is

00:08:05.140 | kind of bland. And look what Bing was able to suggest. These are nuanced comments, a step

00:08:11.440 | change from ChatGPT. If you want to learn more, by the way, about how Bing AI is smarter than

00:08:16.960 | ChatGPT, I've done two videos on this topic on my channel. Let's look at a couple of the suggestions.

00:08:22.240 | It says the introduction is too long and verbose.

00:08:25.520 | It could be shortened by removing unnecessary details and using more concise language.

00:08:30.380 | For example, instead of saying, I have always been an observant and enthusiastic individual,

00:08:34.700 | always looking for answers to how and why things work in a particular way,

00:08:38.480 | which is what my student wrote. You could say, I have always been curious and eager to learn how

00:08:43.400 | things work. Much shorter, a great suggestion. Bing goes further and actually rewrites the

00:08:49.520 | introduction. I have read this, you can too, and it is a significant improvement.

00:08:53.420 | I mean, you could improve it still further, but that

00:08:55.500 | would take real writing skill to do. But notice it didn't just spit out the output. It gave reasons

00:09:01.080 | for each of its suggestions. And that's vital if you want to learn and improve.

00:09:05.160 | Next step is Bing's ability to tell jokes and do creative writing. This is kind of a hit and

00:09:11.400 | miss affair. It's quite hard to get Bing to do what you want, but when it does, it works really

00:09:16.380 | well. Notice what I tried. I said, write five actually funny original jokes, and it found

00:09:22.560 | jokes from the web. Now, I think some of these are quite funny. For example,

00:09:25.480 | what do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho cheese. But these aren't original. It stole these.

00:09:31.660 | So I said, write five jokes about Twitter. And the first one's decent. Again, these aren't Bing jokes,

00:09:37.780 | though. They're stolen. First joke is, a man tells his doctor, Doc, help me. I'm addicted to Twitter.

00:09:42.100 | The doctor replies, sorry, I don't follow you. Not bad. Three of the jokes, by the way, aren't even

00:09:48.160 | about Twitter. Not sure what's going on there. But then when I asked it to do a comedy skit, I

00:09:53.200 | initially faced some problems. I was told that I was going to be a doctor. I was told that I was going

00:09:55.460 | to be a doctor. I was told that I was going to be a doctor. I was told that I was going to be a doctor.

00:09:55.520 | The first two times I asked, it simply refused. It said that topic is too sensitive and

00:10:00.880 | controversial for me to joke about. It was going to be about TikTok, Donald Trump, Elon Musk.

00:10:05.000 | I tried again, removing the brand name of TikTok, and just said social media, and again it refused.

00:10:10.620 | However, I tried one more time and made it fully generic, and it picked up on what I actually

00:10:16.500 | wanted and wrote something great. I asked, somewhat generically, write a funny and creative

00:10:20.620 | story about a billionaire buying a big social media company and using it to promote his posts.

00:10:25.440 | This time it complied. And you can read it for yourself, but I think it's quite entertaining.

00:10:29.160 | Elon Musk was bored. He had already conquered space, electric cars, tunnels, and brain chips.

00:10:33.580 | He wanted a new challenge. He wanted to own Twitter. It goes on and on, and then finally

00:10:39.780 | ends with, Twitter became Elon Musk's playground, and nightmare, and empire. The end. So it can do

00:10:46.920 | creative writing if you prod it in the right way. In the next step, more advanced now, you can use

00:10:52.500 | it as a kind of free consultant. A swap.

00:10:55.420 | Your analysis assesses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a given business.

00:11:01.060 | And Bing was able to do this for a startup I chose almost at random, Hugging Face.

00:11:05.600 | It's answers are detailed and interesting. Imagine this applied to your business. And

00:11:10.500 | of course you can continue the conversation or follow the links to find out more.

00:11:14.740 | Next, it could help on a more granular level. You can use it to respond to reviews.

00:11:19.780 | This is a real review, two stars, posted about the Peninsula Hotel in Paris. I'm going to

00:11:25.400 | let you compare the response that Bing provides with the actual response that the Peninsula

00:11:30.380 | Hotel Paris wrote on TripAdvisor. Essentially this person was complaining about lots of

00:11:34.960 | things, mentioning some positives, but complaining about quite a few things as well. And my prompt

00:11:40.960 | was, write a polite, professional, and detailed response to this review. I think this response

00:11:47.260 | is incredible. It goes into detail, addressing each of the points. And this was a mind blown

00:11:52.260 | moment. It actually uses a real email. I checked this.

00:11:55.380 | I'm going to read this and compare it to the official response.

00:12:02.440 | I mean the response is professional and it is polite, but it's far less detailed. There

00:12:07.220 | are some grammar issues and it doesn't address all of the points. If you could have a professional

00:12:12.160 | response ready instantaneously for any of your customer reviews, wouldn't that help

00:12:17.080 | your business? Next, you can use Bing AI to get into, or to

00:12:21.140 | get better at, coding. I'm a beginner at coding, but it was able to help me get better at coding.

00:12:25.360 | I think it's a great way to get better fast. Take this simple request. I've experimented

00:12:29.660 | with probably a hundred pieces of code, but I just wanted to give you a simple example.

00:12:34.120 | I asked, write Python code that will add 5% to a user's number and then divide by three.

00:12:40.340 | This is a simple math request that you can imagine being used for a restaurant, for example.

00:12:44.460 | If you're new to code, you can always try this out in an application like VS Code, or

00:12:48.940 | just run the code online as a fun experiment. I pasted it into online-ide.com, for example,

00:12:55.340 | which has quite a few coding languages to choose from, and then you press run. It will

00:13:00.960 | prompt you for a number. I entered a number and it gave me the correct result. Only your

00:13:06.380 | imagination can limit you in terms of what you can try out with coding, even for complete

00:13:11.360 | beginners, now that you have Bing and ChatGPT.

00:13:14.840 | Next step, you could use Bing Chat as a quick and easy review aggregator. Only if things

00:13:19.980 | you don't care too much about, for example, like TV shows, movies, restaurants maybe, anything particularly

00:13:25.320 | important, you want to check the reviews yourself. But here's what it came up with

00:13:28.940 | when I asked it for IMDB Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic Empire and Guardian reviews of The Last of

00:13:34.520 | Us in detail.

00:13:36.220 | Some of these numbers are a little off because I think it got confused with the game. And

00:13:40.320 | even when I clarified, it didn't give the most comprehensive result imaginable. But

00:13:45.260 | for quick and easy review aggregation, I think it might get really handy. Same for testing

00:13:50.240 | out any worries you might have about a restaurant or hotel. For example, I asked, are there

00:13:55.300 | any negatives for staying at the Peninsula Hotel Paris? I feel like I'm picking on that

00:13:58.800 | hotel. It is one of the best hotels in the world apparently. I'm definitely not trying

00:14:02.180 | to pick on it. But Bing was able to find some negatives that reviewers have pointed out.

00:14:08.100 | This saved the time of me scrolling through the reviews to find out what might be a slight

00:14:12.620 | issue. Skip straight to the positives and the negatives.

00:14:16.580 | Next step, simply using it as a tutor. And I say this as a tutor.

00:14:20.680 | But I certainly couldn't find you five peer reviewed studies on the link between career

00:14:25.280 | team consumption and cognitive performance, nor could I summarize the findings instantaneously.

00:14:31.300 | Here are the results. And of course, I could continue this conversation and ask about the

00:14:35.400 | molecules inside creatine, the sources of it, the cost of it, other reasons for taking

00:14:41.080 | it, reasons not to take it.

00:14:42.800 | Or let's say you don't care about creatine and you want to know about large language

00:14:46.820 | models, the models behind Bing AI and ChatGPT. You can use Bing to teach you. It can't quite

00:14:53.180 | explain advanced math and English.

00:14:55.260 | But it's free and can give you a great start on a topic. It's also never grouchy and doesn't

00:15:01.300 | need any coffee. So that's another plus.

00:15:04.020 | Finally a bonus step. You can use it to improve your own health. I said, write me a high protein

00:15:09.580 | vegetarian meal plan for a week and give me five tips on how to actually stick to it.

00:15:14.860 | The tips were decent. So I followed up by saying, give me this as a daily meal plan.

00:15:20.440 | Include protein shakes. It gave me a one day meal plan and even told me how to do it. I

00:15:25.240 | thought that was a great idea. But it was not. So I decided to do a few simple exercises.

00:15:28.060 | Think of it more as a source of inspiration rather than a final authority on any matter.

00:15:34.460 | If you think of it like that, Bing's utility is almost endless.

00:15:38.060 | If you want to find out more about just how smart the new Bing is, check out my Bing chat

00:15:43.720 | playlist. I detail Bing's current IQ. It's sometimes surprising conversations.

00:15:50.120 | If you check out my GPT-4 playlist, you can find out about 8 upgrades that may be coming to

00:15:55.220 | Bing AI in the near future. If you found these steps at all useful, please do let me know

00:16:00.820 | in the comments. It really motivates me to make more such videos. Have a wonderful day.

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