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Get Started with AI
AI is an immensely powerful tool – right at your fingertips.
Unless you have decided to live under a rock, AI is the future. For everyone. AI is like the internet, it’s here for good, you can’t avoid it.
If you try to skip out on AI, you will be an illiterate and left behind. Sorry, that’s how it is. The World is here for those of us who take the opportunities offered, including AI. There is only one way to get acquainted with AI, and that is to use it. And AI is easy to use. Don’t waste your life sitting on your hands, holding yourself back.
Find out what AI can do for your particular needs and preferences. Explore AI’s capabilities. Test the current limits of AI. Get acquainted with AI and integrate AI into your routines (if you like it). So, what are my options? What to choose? Will it cost money, and how much? What are the limitations? How do I get started?
Luckily, I have researched that for you.
Options
The global leader in general AI changes regularly. Last year, the Chinese were leading.
Right now, OpenAI from the USA is the leading company. You want OpenAI’s leading solution, which is GPT-4. OpenAI also has a solution called ChatGPT, but it is not as good as GPT-4.
The first obstacle is that GPT-4 is not directly available to other than IT-partners of OpenAI. You can go to the website of OpenAI, but you can only create an account for ChatGPT, not for GPT-4,.
A free account for ChatGPT on OpenAI’s website does not even respond 90% of the time, because OpenAI deprioritizes their free accounts.
Using ChatGPT on OpenAI’s own website has no quantitative limitations, but what does that help you, when OpenAI’s free solution nearly all the time doesn’t answer your request at all. If you want good response-time on OpenAI’s website with ChatGPT, it will cost you $ 20 per month, which is a lot considering that ChatGPT is not even their best solution. Convenience is also crucial if you are to use something often every day. Using OpenAI’s website has the hassle of having to navigate there every time you want to use AI. Hassle means that you probably won’t use it. But create a free account with OpenAI anyway, because you’ll need it for the next step below.
I have found a solution “ChatGPT for Google” which integrates AI directly into your Google Chrome browser or your Microsoft Edge browser. It’s at your fingetips. It responds quickly – also when using their free solution.
It’s called “Monica” assistant and you install it as a normal extension for Chrome browser from Google. The installation procedure leads you to create a free account with OpenAI if you haven’t got it already. From then on, AI is at your fingertips in Chrome browser (or Edge browser) all the time. You press Ctr-M anytime in Chrome (or Edge), and up pops your AI assistant “Monica” and you’re running. No hassle – always there. 30 AI queries per day are for free. If you want more, it’s $ 9.90 per month or $ 99.60 for a year, cancel any time.
They say Monica is powered by GPT-4, but I have a suspicion that it’s still only ChatGPT, because in the paid solution you get additional GPT-4 queries as bonus. But even if Monica is only ChatGPT, it’s still one of your best options. The response time that I have experienced with Monica is fast, unlike OpenAI which doesn’t respond at all most of the time, if you’re on the free solution. Monica can also assist you to work with text information and compose text.
Be aware, that both ChatGPT and GPT-4 can give erroneous results. Especially in calculations, and because they basically are trained on data which is not fully up to date. Check your results with common sense, your background knowledge, additional queries, and other sources.
Work with Monica
Work with Monica to explore any topic of your interest.
The important (and fun) thing is that there are always lots of topics which you want to know more about, and Monica with OpenAI is an additional tool for you to acquire knowledge.
Below, I started to explore the issue of the US chip-embargo to China. Where will it impact China? Will it work? As you see, the insights don’t come all at once. You need to use follow-up questions to drill deeper, so your quota of 30 questions per day is quickly used. But even the paid solution of $ 9.90 per month for Monica is only half the price of the $ 20 per month for getting a fast response-solution with ChatGPT at OpenAI’s own website. And unlike OpenAI itself, Monica’s paid solution gives you some GPT-4 questions on top as a bonus.
Illustration – a chat with Monica about the US chips-embargo on China
Getting Started
If you’d like to work with Monica – click this.
You’ll be asked to sign up to OpenAI as well. You get 30 queries per day for free.
The only bonus for me and you of this link is 1 single GPT-4 bonus-query for both of us – not a big bonus, but nice to try it.
If you like it and want more, it’s $ 9.90 per month or $ 99.60 per year, and you get 2,500 queries plus 30 GPT-4 queries per month plus priority email support to keep you going.
Share Experience
It is motivating and useful to be more people sharing the user experience of AI. Getting ideas. Get around hurdles. Perhaps discover some even better solution.
AI still needs more development to be absolutely reliable. The developers at OpenAI are on to that. But AI has already become so good that you can have immense advantage of AI today. And if you want to be critical of AI, then see what to be critical about for yourself.
I’d like to hear from you about your AI experience.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
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