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AI services are spreading around the world in the blink of an eye, with ChatGPT, which sparked the AI chat boom, surpassing 100 million users in the fastest time in history.

However, many people who actually use them say that they do not work as expected. The reason for this is that they do not understand the characteristics of AI and have not correctly entered the ‘prompts’.

AI can be used in a variety of industries to improve operational efficiency and new business if used correctly, so it is important to understand it thoroughly while you still can.

To master AI, you need to be able to visualise what you want and verbalise it.

Many people have tried using popular AI services, but did not get the answers they wanted, or asked simple questions and saw the answers, but did not know how to use them further.

There is no doubt that this is some amazing technology, but many people may feel that there is no point in using it in everyday life. In fact, ChatGPT, which was released in November 2022 and triggered an AI boom, has also seen a decline in monthly access for the first time since its release in June 2023.

AI does not easily output everything and anything humans want; techniques and knowledge are required on the human side to master AI. In particular, for text and image generation, which are considered highly versatile, the quality of the prompts (sentences used to command the AI) can significantly change the output.

For example, rather than the prompt ‘tell me about Web 3.0’, it would be more detailed and accurate to write ‘list the technologies involved in Web 3.0’ or ‘tell me what will change with the technology called Web 3.0’ AI can only output sentences and images based on information given by humans. images, it can only output images, so it needs to tell humans exactly what they want.

The concept is similar to communicating with humans or managing subordinates. If you give them the information they need, tell them exactly what you want and then ask for their output, you are more likely to get a better response.

AI is often thought to be able to do everything on its own, but in reality it requires advanced communication skills.

Recently, the term ‘prompt engineering’ has even been coined to refer to the technology of creating high-quality prompts. And if you search the internet, you will find a large number of examples of prompts to get better answers. Of course, collecting and memorising them will increase the likelihood of obtaining the optimum output.

But that alone is not an essential solution. This is because AI software is evolving on a daily basis, and ‘good prompts’ change according to various conditions. Naturally, the content of the required prompts will also change between text-generating AI and image-generating AI. Furthermore, the ‘good prompt’ will be different for each service.

The ability to understand the characteristics of AI and to hone one's verbalisation skills so that one can create prompts to get the answers one wants is what is required to master AI. Once this is mastered, AI services can be effective beyond mere writing and image creation.

How to use ChatGPT

For example, ChatGPT can be used not only to answer questions, but also to summarise texts, programme, create graphs and analyse data. All of these are things that many people in business do with their own hands. Just knowing how to utilise ChatGPT in this way will greatly improve the efficiency of everyday work.

Practice, ChatGPT!

This section introduces actual situations in which AI services can be used, together with examples of prompts. We hope you will find it helpful in taking the next step from ‘trying to touch AI’ to ‘being familiar with AI’.

The diagram above shows a step-by-step example of prompts that can be used in ChatGPT to get more accurate and relevant answers to the questioner's intentions, a technique that can also be used universally in different AI chat services such as Bing and Bard.

AI chat can only ‘respond based on the information given’ and will not make assumptions and make discoveries about the background and prior knowledge of the question on its own. Therefore, it is important to understand that if you want to get an accurate answer, you need to state this information clearly.

Items that are more likely to get the desired answer if clearly stated include

・Respondent's position (e.g. teacher/professional writer)

・Position of the questioner (e.g. primary school student, no expertise)

・Background of the question (to prepare a company report)

・Terms of the answer (no jargon)

・Format of the answer (300 words or less, give examples)

To fill in this information, you can use a format such as ‘#Conditions’ to separate the question body from the conditions; when using AI chat, you need to be able to imagine the specific answer you are looking for, without assuming that you know this level of information.

AI chat may also sometimes output inaccurate information. For this reason, it is best to avoid using it to ask for knowledge in areas that you are completely unfamiliar with at this point in time. It is better to use it in cases where you have some knowledge of the subject but want to save yourself the trouble of creating and summarising documents.

Image generation services can be used in a wide range of situations, such as inserting images into presentation materials or creating websites, and if you can't find good images on the web, you can try creating your own.

Services include Stable Diffusion, DALL-E2 and Midjourney, but all of these are a bit difficult for beginners to use. This is because a certain amount of prior knowledge is required and images cannot be created for free. Another drawback is that the prompts basically have to be written in English.

Practice, Bing Image Creator!

Bing Image Creator, shown in the diagram below, is a service that can be recommended to anyone, as it supports Japanese input, is free and the quality of the images is high.

You can also input the conditions of the images you want to output in text, but we recommend keeping the prompt sentences brief and writing detailed conditions after that, separated by commas. This is because attempts to express various conditions in a single sentence often result in sentences that are difficult for the AI to understand.

If you can't get it right, you can try referring to image prompts created by others. For example, Bing Image Creator provides images and prompts created by others on its site pages. Based on these, you should be able to output the ideal image by deleting unnecessary keywords and adding the keywords you want.

Speech recognition, voice conversion and music creation technologies are also being created.

The field related to ‘voice’ is gradually developing as a way of utilising AI technology. Voice transcription services, which transcribe audio from meetings, interviews and web conferencing into documents, can listen to who is speaking and transcribe what is said with a very high degree of accuracy. It also has a function to summarise the transcribed content, so it can be used to take minutes of meetings.

Other services have also been created to convert human speech in real time. This makes it possible for a man to pretend to be a female YouTuber and broadcast in real-time, so gender on the internet is finally going to become unreliable.

Furthermore, an AI service that composes music has also been created. In the future, songs ‘written, composed and sung by AI’ may dominate the hit charts?

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