AI development is progressing at an exponential rate. Whether it's art generators or language models, AI is being used everywhere these days. Amongst all the AI-powered tools available to the public today, the one that's been making the most headlines is OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT.

From generating YouTube scripts to writing blog posts, ChatGPT can do it all. Amongst its innumerable uses, ChatGPT has also proven to be extremely useful as a supplement to studying. Here's how.

Ask ChatGPT to act as someone

To keep your learning session from getting monotonous, you can ask ChatGPT to imitate a role, profession, or even a fictional character to suit your learning needs. One of my favourite ways to comprehend a topic that seems too difficult is by asking ChatGPT to explain said topic to me as if I am a five-year-old.

This creates some interesting analogies and metaphors for a topic that you might be studying. For example, when asked to simplify nucleophilic substitution, it compared the atoms to players in a game of tag.

Test yourself

You can customise tests to recall crucial bits of a topic you're studying. By running a prompt that specifies what topic you want to test yourself on, the question format, number of options given to you (for multiple choice questions), and the difficulty of those questions, you can devise the AI to test your progress as you go about learning difficult topics.

Ask for step-by-step instructions

ChatGPT is modelled to summarise answers by default. Oftentimes you may come across a Physics or Maths problem that you need a thorough explanation for.

Inputting a prompt that starts with something like "give me step by step solutions for…" will generate responses with detailed instructions on how to solve a problem.

The best thing about using AI tools for studying is that they provide very specific solutions, something that your typical Google search fails to do.

Make mnemonics or songs to memorise better

ChatGPT can easily come up with catchy songs, poems, jokes, or verses to help you remember lists or formulae that would otherwise be hard to recall.

You will find that the best decision is to use ChatGPT as an appendage to your core learning instead of depending on it solely for learning new information. The language model has some significant limitations when it comes to providing accurate information, so you might have to cross check some facts through a quick Google search or your textbooks.

It can be dangerous to blindly trust the AI model at all times, so use it as a tool to approach your studies and help understand topics in ways that are unique to you and are not readily available in the real world.

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