OpenAI has announced a major update for ChatGPT. Or as the company puts it, “a bunch of small updates” that will improve your user experience with the generative AI tool. It’s pushing prompt examples, suggested replies, keyboard shortcuts, and more. All of the new features and improvements will roll out to users over the next week.
For starters, ChatGPT will now show prompt examples on the home page to help you get started. If you can’t frame a powerful prompt quickly, you can use the examples to boost your creativity. You can also simply click on an example to start a conversation and get along with the generative AI tool before following up with your prompts.
To ensure continued conversations, ChatGPT will suggest relevant follow-up prompts or replies after generating a response. Clicking on those suggestions will give you more relevant information on what you are looking for. Additionally, all ChatGPT Plus users will now have access to GPT-4 by default.
GPT-4 is the latest and most advanced version of the large language model powering the tool. Released in March, it has been available to Plus users for a while now. However, all this while, ChatGPT didn’t remember the last model used and defaulted Plus users back to GPT-3.5 when starting a new chat, forcing them to manually switch to GPT-4. OpenAI has finally fixed this annoying behavior. Free users remain on GPT-3.5, though.
The latest round of updates for ChatGPT also brings support for multiple files. Part of the Code Interpreter beta for Plus users, this feature allows you to upload several files and have the tool analyze data across them all to generate insights and meaningful observations. OpenAI doesn’t let free users upload files to ChatGPT for analysis.
ChatGPT is also adding keyboard shortcuts
OpenAI is further improving the ChatGPT experience with keyboard shortcuts. The AI tool currently supports seven keyboard shortcuts on Windows PCs: Ctrl+Shift+O (open new chat), Shift+Esc (focus chat input), Ctrl+Shift+; (copy last code block), Ctrl+Shift+C (copy last response), Ctrl+Shift+S (toggle sidebar), Ctrl+Shift+Backspace (delete chat), and Ctrl+/ (show all keyboard shortcuts).
You can also see these shortcuts from the “question mark” button on the bottom right corner of the chat screen. Last but not least, ChatGPT will no longer log you out of your account every two weeks. It will keep you logged in. And when you manually log out and log back in, the AI tool will greet you with a “much more welcoming page.” As said earlier, these changes will reach all ChatGPT users globally over the next week.