Using Chatbots Effectively for Learning and Research ... #1 BASICS

Last update: Saturday 4/26/25 9:25am

This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems. 

Like our Useful AI News page, these notes will be written for the benefit of computer savvy users who use chatbots to interact with large language models (LLMs) rather than write code to interact with the models via their APIs (application programming interfaces). 

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Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, a tortoise named Claude, and a very fast hare named Gemini

Last update: Wednesday 7/16/25

Once upon a recent time, there was a race between a tortoise named ChatGPT, another tortoise named Claude, and a fast moving hare named Gemini. At the start of the race, everybody knew who was supposed to win. But as quick as a wink, some unexpected things began to happen. 
 

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Note: The cartoon image for this note was composed via ChatGPT on GPT-4o.