ChatGPT Puts Your Questioning Skills to the Test! ~Effective for Multi-Perspective Thinking~

Lately, I have been playing around with ChatGPT. I often switch from playing around to interacting in work mode. Sometimes, we even end up in heated discussions late into the night.

From casual chat mode at a bar to a mode for brainstorming ideas in meetings, I will introduce some ways to use it for work.

How to get started with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI conversational robot that (for now) can be used for free. It provides quite substantial answers to questions, just like normal conversation or writing. It's not quite as capable as a skilled secretary, but you can feel free to chat with it like a colleague or play around by giving impossible tasks to a talented new recruit.

If you haven't created an account yet, refer to this! You can get started in 5 minutes.

The ChatGPT Research Institute has plenty of solid explanatory articles.

Long questions are also OK

Even with Google search until now, it could answer somewhat unreasonable questions to a certain extent, but what's interesting about ChatGPT is that you can input quite long passages of text as they are.

Including specific situations and backgrounds will bring you closer to your expectations

It's fine to write at length so that the intent and background of your question are understood. It feels like it grasps our intent from long sentences. Since ChatGPT is an AI, it doesn't actually understand the meaning, though. It feels like it understands context and intent so accurately that we might misunderstand it.

Focus on how ChatGPT paraphrases words and how it understands!

In the answers ChatGPT returns, first focus on the words used. Sometimes it uses different phrasing than your own question or paraphrases them into more natural language.

If you think, "I see, that expression is easier to understand!" then take it!
You might be able to use it in presentation materials, so make a note of it.

It honestly answers questions seeking perspectives and ideas

When you input something like "List many ideas about XX," it will list many viewpoints and ideas in bullet points.

Most of the time it's within expectations, but sometimes you can find viewpoints and ideas that make you think, "Oh!"

Dig deeper with follow-up questions to squeeze out more ideas

If you find a phrase you like, you can copy and paste it and say, "Tell me more about XX," to draw out even deeper ideas.

At this time as well, rather than simple questions, adding various conditions or including your own understanding, such as "I understand XX, but I don't really understand YY," makes it easier to get answers that match your intent.

Strong with long-standing problems

ChatGPT is an AI that has learned by gathering a vast amount of information from the web. It seems it cannot keep up with the latest news, and rumors suggest it primarily learns from information that is over a year old.

In other words, it is strong with long-standing problems. For example, it should have accumulated knowledge on issues that have persisted for years or decades, such as human problems, communication issues between bosses and subordinates, or meetings being long and boring.

Despite the vast amount of knowledge available on the web, previous search methods would just display that information in a flood, leading to the problem where we couldn't read or fully understand it all.

ChatGPT excels in these situations; it can simply summarize vast amounts of information and explain it in an easy-to-understand way tailored to the user's situation. This summarization ability is amazing!

An era where questioning skills are tested

After trying various things, I feel that our questioning skills are being tested.

Shallow questions yield shallow answers. Deep questions yield deep, multi-perspective answers.

It has reached a practical level as a conversation partner or a sounding board for organizing thoughts. Even as a partner for counseling or coaching, if you refine how you ask questions, you can get sufficient results. It's at a level that feels a bit frightening.

The era where a robot like ChatGPT is safer and more reassuring than dealing with an incompetent human is just around the corner. In the last few months, use cases have increased dramatically. Multiple similar services have appeared, and usage scenarios are expanding. Conversational AI robots are likely to evolve rapidly this year.

Around the year 2000, when Google first appeared, I used it quite extensively and people were surprised, saying, 'You're fast at searching!' That was simply because I was searching more than ten times as much as others. If you use it thoroughly, your skills will improve accordingly. That's the only difference.

It is an important era to master more effective ways of asking questions by experimenting on your own and referring to how others use it. It's not too late to start, so why not find some time to chat with ChatGPT?

If you do nothing this year, you might end up being someone who is ten years behind.

Supplement: Some interesting ChatGPT use cases

This article was written by
Shigeki Kawahara, a 'Future Realization Partner' who increases revenue pillars
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