Research is a very important topic, whether you work on a private or professional project, start a new hobby, or want to write a book. Whatever you want to do, you always have to research. The awesome news is that with Chat GBT, research becomes easier and more efficient than ever before. Let’s get started with a practical research example.
My goal is to learn more about the world and everything in it. For this, I want to find a new book that everybody should have read. Here, I will ask Chat GBT the following prompt: ‘What are the top five books everybody should have read?’ Chat GBT comes up with five books, stating that it’s difficult to pick just five. So, in the end, it tells us that it depends on what we’re looking for. But we got five books to get started with.
As we learned in the prompt engineering module, we should be more specific about what we actually look for. So, let’s add some constraints to our prompt. Let’s say that we are interested in books related to business or personal development, and we only want the book titles. The new prompt is: ‘Give me the top five books related to business or personal development, and only the titles.’ Now, we have five books that meet our criteria.
The third book, ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,’ sounds interesting to me. Now, I want to dive deeper into this book. I want to know the page count and the year it was initially published. So, I modify the prompt to: ‘Give me the page count and the year of publication for the book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.’ Now, I have the requested information.
To make things complete, I can also ask Chat GBT where I can buy this book. And with that, I have completed my whole journey from generic book research to buying a specific book.
Of course, this is a very easy example, but it shows you the power of Chat GBT in research. Instead of Googling for books and checking multiple pages and lists, Chat GBT provides a great output within just a few prompts. And by starting with a more specific prompt, we can get even more precise results.
Remember, Chat GBT is all about patterns and probabilities. So, it’s always a good idea to double-check the results to ensure they reflect what you’re looking for. But Chat GBT provides a great starting point for your research, where you can then dive deeper on your own, with or without Chat GBT.
