ChatGPT is an extremely useful gizmo when utilized in the best means. Nonetheless, regardless of OpenAI persevering with to enhance and replace the AI chatbot, there are nonetheless loads of issues that it could possibly’t do.

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Keep in mind Each Earlier Dialog

ChatGPT does have a memory, however it’s pretty restricted. It can keep in mind issues that it thinks are necessary, corresponding to particulars about you and your preferences or how you’ve got requested for prompts to be answered. You may also ask ChatGPT to recollect particular issues.

Nonetheless, the reminiscence is finite, so you possibly can’t get ChatGPT to recollect every part. It signifies that if you happen to’ve mentioned one thing in a single dialog, ChatGPT could also be utterly unaware of it in one other dialog.

For those who create Projects in ChatGPT, every one has its personal customized directions that you should use to retailer necessary data, however if you happen to ask it to recollect one thing, this will get saved to the overall reminiscence moderately than that particular venture.

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Work together With Your Units

There are occasions if you want that ChatGPT might work together along with your units. For instance, Siri can control your iPhone or Mac to do issues corresponding to play music, flip off Bluetooth, or name a contact. Nonetheless, even with Siri integrated with ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence, there is not any approach to get ChatGPT to ask Siri to make adjustments to your machine.

Anthropic has a beta function for its Claude chatbot known as Laptop Use that may take management of your pc and do issues corresponding to trying on the display, getting into textual content, transferring the cursor across the display, and clicking buttons. Up to now, nevertheless, ChatGPT is caught firmly inside its personal app and might’t work together along with your machine.

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Generate Pictures Utilizing Unfavourable Prompts

This is not only a drawback with pictures; AI chatbots are likely to wrestle with unfavourable prompts basically. It is like when somebody tells you not to think about an elephant; that is the very first thing that pops into your head. The difficulty is, even if you happen to attempt to make your image generation prompts to be optimistic, it hardly ever works.

Here is an instance: strive asking ChatGPT to generate a picture of Santa with a mustache however no beard. It attracts a beard each time. Change the immediate to one thing optimistic, corresponding to “with a mustache and a clean-shaven chin and jaw,” and ChatGPT nonetheless consists of the beard.

I’ve tried many alternative prompts to try to get ChatGPT to create a picture of Santa with a mustache however no beard, and the one means I’ve discovered that vaguely labored was to ask it to create a picture of Hercules Poirot dressed as Santa. Even then, it regarded very clearly like a Belgian detective dressed up moderately than the precise Santa with no beard.

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Create Pictures of Copyright Characters or Well-known Folks

One other factor that ChatGPT cannot do is generate pictures that comprise well-known folks or copyrighted characters, corresponding to cartoon characters or characters from exhibits or films. For those who ask ChatGPT to generate a picture of Mickey Mouse ice skating, for instance, you get a written response that it is unable to take action as a consequence of content material restrictions.

That is true of many AI chatbots, with the notable exception of Grok, the AI chatbot for X Premium+ subscribers, which helps you to generate pictures of anybody you need. You need to use Elon Musk’s app to generate photorealistic pictures of Elon Musk himself in order for you, though whether or not you’ll wish to is one other story.

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Determine a Individual From an Picture

In the identical means that ChatGPT cannot create pictures of well-known folks, it additionally will not attempt to establish them both. For instance, you possibly can add a picture of a hen, and ChatGPT will be capable to let you know what species of bird it is.

Nonetheless, if you happen to strive the identical factor with an individual, ChatGPT will let you know that it could possibly’t establish folks in pictures. Even when the picture is of a personality from a film moderately than an actual individual, it is going to nonetheless refuse to establish them.

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Be Your Private Assistant (But)

ChatGPT has made the primary steps in attempting to change into an agentic AI. Normal AI chatbots will reply to prompts however will not take motion on their very own. Agentic AI could make selections and carry out actions with out being prompted, successfully working autonomously to attain a selected objective.

ChatGPT added the Tasks feature, which is the primary time that the AI chatbot has been capable of act with out having to be immediately prompted. You need to use Duties to carry out actions on a schedule, even when you do not have the app open.

Nonetheless, in its present type, Tasks in ChatGPT isn’t quite good enough for the app to take over as your all-in-one AI-powered private assistant simply but. There is a restrict of 10 scheduled duties, which is just too few to be of a lot use, and the scheduled actions do not at all times work as they need to. Nonetheless, that is undoubtedly a step in the best route.

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Entry Paywalled Content material

ChatGPT’s fashions have been educated on information from the web, and initially, this meant that they may solely present data as much as a selected closing date. Something that occurred after that date wasn’t a part of the coaching information, and so ChatGPT did not find out about it.

Nonetheless, ChatGPT is now capable of search the web, so it could possibly discover up-to-date data on-line. There’s one main exception, nevertheless. If the site is paywalled, ChatGPT will not be capable to entry the content material, so if the knowledge you want is on a paywalled website, ChatGPT is not going to have the ability to monitor it down.

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Get Every thing Proper

ChatGPT will be insanely helpful; I take advantage of it a number of instances a day for all kinds of various issues. Nonetheless, it nonetheless suffers from one thing that at present plagues all AI chatbots: it would not at all times get every part proper.

You must be actually cautious that you do not take every part that ChatGPT tells you as gospel as a result of it is nonetheless the case that, at instances, it is going to utterly hallucinate answers that may sound very convincing.

I take advantage of ChatGPT to look How-To Geek’s articles as a result of the outcomes utilizing ChatGPT’s pure language processing are normally far superior to these discovered by the built-in keyword-based search function. Nonetheless, it would not at all times work.

Simply right now, it received caught in a loop the place I’d ask it to seek for articles from the web site on a selected subject, and it will state that there have been none. Once I requested it to verify once more, it will then discover all of them. This stored repeating for each subject I requested about.

Up to now, ChatGPT has utterly made up articles and even offered faux net hyperlinks to these articles that solely proved to be made up once I tried to open them. You continue to must be on guard for ChatGPT supplying you with data that merely is not true.

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I really like ChatGPT. I take advantage of it on a regular basis, and more often than not, it proves to be extremely useful. Nonetheless, it nonetheless has some important limitations, with the listing above solely scratching the floor. So long as you’re conscious of what ChatGPT can and might’t do, you should use it for issues it is able to and discover different methods to do the issues that it could possibly’t.