5 Reasons to Be Excited About ChatGPT’s August Update
A Comprehensive Guide to the New Features
OpenAI just released a new August update for ChatGPT, and it’s got lots of big changes. Now, people can send files to ChatGPT, get ideas for what to ask, and get answers back, along with other cool stuff. The update makes it easier to use and does more things. They also fixed some problems with the look of the program and took care of security problems.
This update makes using ChatGPT better and more useful. OpenAI keeps working to make ChatGPT easy for more people to use. They even made it available on Android and iOS phones, so you can download it from the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store.
Today, I’ll tell you about all the new stuff and how to use it. This update might seem small, but even little changes can make a big difference. The update is all about making ChatGPT better with new features and making it easier to use. Let’s take a look at what’s new in the August update and learn how to use it.
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August Update
OpenAI has added a bunch of new things to GPT-4 or ChatGPT, like suggested replies, keyboard shortcuts, and staying logged in longer. The August update has six new features for ChatGPT, the fancy language program. The company is slowly giving the update to everyone, and it should be available to all by next week.
Last month, a feature called Custom Instructions was added, where you can tell ChatGPT or GPT-4 what you like, and it’ll remember for next time. There’s also Code Interpreter that lets people send files to do stuff like analyze data, make characters, change files, do hard math, and more. Plus, now you can send longer messages. This is the first update for this month, and here’s a quick look at what’s new in ChatGPT’s August update.
1. Multiple-Upload Files
If you use ChatGPT a lot and know it well, there’s something new for you: now you can send files. People can send more than one file at the same time, something that you couldn’t do before on OpenAI. This is handy because it lets you look at information from different sets of data all at once.
Before, you could only send files if you were using something called the Code Interpreter Beta to look at complicated computer code. To use the Code Interpreter, you have to turn it on in the Settings under the Beta section. When it’s on, you pick the Code Interpreter to start sending files and looking at the information in them.
With this turned on, you can send up to ten files at the same time. You can look at them with something called Semrush keywords and use the ChatGPT Code Interpreter to look at them closely. A lot of marketing teams have used this way to really dig into the data and pull out information.
2. Prompt Suggestion
When you start a new chat in ChatGPT, you’ll now see some suggested examples to help you begin. These ideas are meant to make starting a chat less scary and help you think creatively. Before, when you started a ChatGPT session, you’d see a blank screen, and it might have been hard to know what to say. But with these prompt examples, you’ll have a quick way to start talking and have more interesting chats.
3. GPT-4 as default model
GPT-4 now lets you send 50 messages (depends on how much you use, some people got 200 messages limit as well) every three hours. If you start a new chat session, you won’t go back to the older GPT-3.5 model, so you don’t have to worry about switching between the AI versions. This makes things easier and saves time. This new default setting is only for ChatGPT Plus users, so only they will see GPT-4 as the standard option.
4. Longer Follow-ups
GPT-4 is now better at keeping track of the conversation. When you ask something new, it will remember to connect it to what you asked before. Before, ChatGPT only remembered parts of the conversation, but now it’s even better at that. This makes it easier to have real back-and-forth talks with questions and answers.
Something similar is happening with Microsoft Bing. The Bing AI chatbot can remember the last 30 questions you asked, and after that, it suggests starting a new chat. ChatGPT has a feature like this too, but it hasn’t told us yet how long it can remember or how many questions you can follow up on.
5. GPT-4 Shortcuts
ChatGPT has added keyboard shortcuts to help users get things done more quickly. This makes it easier to use ChatGPT and GPT-4, with shortcuts like Ctrl + Shift + C to copy a block of text.
The company keeps making the ChatGPT website better and adding more things it can do. This is helping make ChatGPT one of the best AI chatbots, letting people do more things easily. ChatGPT Plus users can use all the latest models and new features like Custom Instructions.
Right now, there’s no change to ChatGPT Plus (costs $20 a month). People using ChatGPT Plus are already getting faster and more accurate chats. OpenAI does have some big competitors like Google’s Bar and Anthropic’s Cloud, and there’s news that Meta will be releasing its own AI chatbot soon too.
ChatGPT is getting better all the time, and the company is working hard to make sure it talks more like a real person. They’re even thinking about the future and have filed a trademark for GPT-5, even though they haven’t started working on it yet. For now, ChatGPT will keep using GPT-4, and GPT-3 will be phased out starting next year.
