What is ChatGPT and how do I actually use it effectively?

The "fancy search engine" instinct isn't wrong, but the key difference is this: a search engine finds existing pages, while ChatGPT generates a new response synthesised from everything it was trained on. It reasons and explains; search retrieves and links. Practically, people use it for: drafting emails and documents, summarising long articles or PDFs, explaining complex topics simply, brainstorming ideas, writing and debugging code, and working through decisions by talking them out. The most ...