# How To Get Started With ChatGPT Vision: Tips For Beginners ## Metadata - **Published:** 10/27/2023 - **Duration:** 5 minutes - **YouTube URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=plXOgLdCRkM - **Channel:** nerding.io ## Description ChatGPT Vision is an exciting new AI assistant from OpenAI that can be incredibly helpful for a wide range of tasks. But if you're new to conversational AI, it can be a bit daunting to figure out how to make the most of ChatGPT Vision. In this video, I'll provide some tips for beginners to start using ChatGPT Vision effectively. I'll go over the basics of how it works, ideas for use cases, how to structure prompts, best practices for iterating and providing feedback, limitations to be aware of, and how to gradually integrate it into your workflows. Whether you want to leverage ChatGPT Vision to explain concepts, summarize documents, generate content, or automate tasks, this video will give you a starter guide to getting the most value. I'll provide examples of simple prompts to begin with and discuss how to build up complexity over time. The goal is to give you the core knowledge you need to feel comfortable getting hands-on with ChatGPT Vision as a beginner. Soon you'll be having productive conversations with this remarkable AI assistant! ๐Ÿ“ฐ FREE snippets & news: https://sendfox.com/nerdingio ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Ranked #1 Product of the Day: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ever-efficient-ai ๐Ÿ“ž Book a Call: https://calendar.app.google/M1iU6X2x18metzDeA ๐ŸŽฅ Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:17 Usage 00:51 Attach Images 01:16 Hot Commands 02:08 Prompt 04:22 Mobile 05:10 Conclusion ๐Ÿ”— Links https://chat.openai.com/ https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak โคต๏ธ Let's Connect https://everefficient.ai https://nerding.io https://twitter.com/nerding_io https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdfiscus/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ever-efficient-ai/ ## Key Highlights ### 1. Accessing Vision in ChatGPT Vision is automatically available within the default GPT-4 model; no explicit selection of a specific mode (like Bing or DALL-E) is necessary. ### 2. Screenshot to Clipboard Workflow On Mac, use Command+Control+Shift+4 to take a screenshot and automatically copy it to the clipboard, enabling instant pasting into ChatGPT. ### 3. Role-Playing for Better Analysis Specifying a role (e.g., "act as an image specialist") before prompting enhances ChatGPT's analysis and accuracy in identifying image content. ### 4. Mobile Vision Input Methods On mobile, use the image icon to upload photos, take new ones, or copy images from browsers to paste directly into ChatGPT. ## Summary ## ChatGPT Vision for Beginners: A Quick Start Guide (Video Summary) **1. Executive Summary:** This video provides a beginner's guide to using ChatGPT Vision effectively. It covers the basics of how to access and utilize Vision, offers practical tips for prompt engineering, and demonstrates how to leverage its capabilities across both desktop and mobile platforms for image analysis. **2. Main Topics Covered:** * **Accessing and Using ChatGPT Vision:** Explanation of how Vision is integrated into the default GPT-4 model and how to upload images. * **Desktop Workflow:** Using screenshot to clipboard functionality (Command+Control+Shift+4 on Mac) for quick image input. * **Prompt Engineering:** Importance of defining a role for ChatGPT (e.g., "act as an image specialist") to improve analysis. * **Mobile Vision Input:** Utilizing the image icon to upload photos, take new ones, or copy/paste images from browsers. * **Example Use Case:** Identifying comic book characters in an image and providing their origin stories. * **Limitations:** Acknowledges that Vision may miss certain details in complex images. **3. Key Takeaways:** * ChatGPT Vision is readily accessible within the default GPT-4 model without selecting specific modes. * Screenshotting and pasting images into ChatGPT is a fast and efficient workflow. * Specifying a role for ChatGPT before prompting enhances the accuracy and depth of its analysis. * Mobile integration allows for easy image input via photo uploads, new photos, or copying/pasting. * Iterate on your prompts and provide feedback to refine the AI's responses and improve accuracy. **4. Notable Quotes or Examples:** * "โ€ฆas long as you have default, you can go ahead and get started with vision." * Example of prompt: "Act as an image specialist specifically on comics and tell me the comic book characters fix that on the wall and their origin." * The video demonstrates the ability of ChatGPT Vision to identify characters (Harley Quinn, Batman, Joker) painted on a wall and provide their origin stories, even recognizing the characters despite the artwork being created by the presenter. **5. Target Audience:** * Beginners new to ChatGPT Vision. * Individuals looking for practical tips on using Vision effectively. * Users interested in leveraging AI for image analysis and content generation. ## Full Transcript hey everyone welcome to nerding IO I'm JD and today we're going to be going through chat gbt vision and look at some tips and tricks so if you've seen our previous video we kind of went through some of the use cases that you can use and now we're going to show you how to get the best results all right so first things first uh we just want to go through like quickly how to actually use the uh chat GPT Vision so if you have GPT 4 and you go up to your drop down here you actually don't need to select anything a lot of the times if you're going to use Bing or the advanced uh data analysis or even Dolly 3 you'd have to go up there but as long as you have default you can go ahead and get started with vision and then what you can do is you can actually use this uh attach images so you can just click and it'll open the uh the desktop or you can actually drag from your uh from like your folder paths or desktop or whatever and just put it in there the other really cool thing is you can actually take screenshots and so what I mean by that is there's a command in the um there's a command in Mac where you can basically do command control Shift 4 it'll give you your cross erors just like usual but then you can actually highlight what you want to click select take an image of that so in this case we'll just take this and you can actually highlight and select the cool thing about this is that actually puts it in your clipboard so you can now copy and paste it so all you have to do is command V and there you go you have your own image hey everyone real quick if you're enjoying this video please remember to like And subscribe it helps more than you know also let us know in the comments if there's anything you'd like us to go over all right let's get back to nerding the next thing that you can do is just like you would previously you want to actually give act as a uh act as a role so you can tell it to act as a uh image specialist specifically on comics and the reason I'm saying that is we're going to ask it to Define our uh what Comics are are on the back of the wall so tell me the comic book characters fix that on the wall and their origin just go ahead and fix that really quick and then we can go ahead and so it can take a little bit of time to get started all right and so now what it's doing is it's analyzing these images in the background to Define what the work is so I'm going to pause this while all right and now it's finished and so what it did is it actually picked up the the multiple characters and the thing that I find interesting about this is not only did it pick up uh Harley Quinn in the back the uh and her origin story but it also defines where it's finding it in the image and what's crazy is like I actually painted this so uh it took my uh terrible painting ability and was able to Define it as Harley Quinn which was cool uh and then also Batman and even the Joker um which is in there the other the one thing that it did Miss is uh Darth Vader here drinking out of a teacup but that's all right so as a bonus I just wanted to go through the uh the way to do this in Mobile so there's a little icon that you can click that will look like an image and it'll just pull up a uh a menu for either checking something for your photo library you can actually take a photo or you can choose files the other thing that you can do is you can actually click and hold on the photo in like the browser or something and then do copy image this will allow you to actually paste it it directly into chat gbt and so once you paste it in or use this icon here you can actually just start interfacing with it and ask it questions all right and that's it for us today what we learned was a couple of different techniques for getting the best results when communicating with an image as well as some hotkey commands that we can kind of pull everything into as quick as possible in order to get the results that we want so if you haven't seen our previous video please check out our use cases don't forget to like And subscribe and we'll see in the next one happy nerding --- *Generated for LLM consumption from nerding.io video library*