I was very confused as a sideline business, but ChatGPT cured me—the story of an AI practitioner being cured by an AI model

Confusion is nothing more than not knowing what to do, no goal, no direction.

When there is a clear goal, motivation is often very strong. But in the process of doing a side job, the biggest problem is often not knowing what to do.

What are you doing? how to do it To what extent? This is where having a side hustle (or indeed anything) can be disorienting.

But the AI assistant ChatGPT gave me a lot of help.

Hello everyone, I am "Chen Chengnan", an AI algorithm engineer of a big factory who was involved in Schrödinger's involvement, and is also a self-media soldier. To be honest, Xiaobing is already a compliment to me. In my opinion, self-media practitioners need to be able to catch hot spots, get on hot spots, and understand operations, and I don't know much about these.

If you have friends who have followed me before, you may find that the articles I shared before are more technical, which is true, because I only understand technology. But today I will not talk about AI technology. I would like to share the difficulties and troubles I encountered in the process of doing a side job, that is, the account "Chen Chengnan".

Sharing this article is not to moan without illness, and the matter of being confused as a sideline business should not have been mentioned in a public article.

But by coincidence, ChatGPT, the hottest AI model now, has alleviated my confusion to a large extent.

"AI technology helps AI practitioners to cure the confusion when doing AI self-media, which itself is a very AI (love) thing."

Therefore, I want to share the process of ChatGPT helping me answer questions, hoping to provide an additional solution for everyone when encountering the same or different difficulties.

"AI is a tool", let the AI model help answer it, and there may be new gains.

Let's get to the point.

1. I am very confused as a self-media, what should I do?

Although I have tossed a lot of side jobs, stepped on a lot of pitfalls, and accumulated a lot of useless experience, when I was doing AI self-media, I was still confused, "I don't know what I should do, and I don't know what I should share . To be more blunt, I don’t know what my position as self-media is ,” I think, this is something that any self-media person needs to solve.

I use ChatGPT to help me write code and answer technical questions every day. Writing documents and so on, but the way to use it is still limited. I let AI do what I want to do .

Today, when I was confused, I thought that I had watched a video played by millions of Bilibili before. at the end). This video describes many ways to use ChatGPT, which mentions that there is a 4-quadrant (the description here is different from the original video):

Public area: things that AI can solve, and you can solve;
Privacy zone: things that AI can't solve, but you can solve;
Blind spots: What AI can solve, but you cannot solve;
Unknown Zone: Things that AI can't solve, and neither can you.

Those who use AI to help me work above me belong to the public area. Of course, some knowledge AI does not know, it belongs to the privacy area or unknown area.

Because I thought of the blind spot problem mentioned in the content of this video, " I can't solve the problem, can AI solve it for me? I don't even know if it can help me solve it ." So confused, I tentatively consulted ChatGPT, hoping that he could give me some advice.

To my surprise, he was far more professional and comprehensive than I thought. You can take a look at the original chat record first:

Personally, I think ChatGPT gives a very clear answer. The most difficult problem in self-media is to be like a headless chicken.

"What to do? How to do it? To what extent?" , an almost constant question. And the answer given by ChatGPT:

Positioning myself : In fact, it is to analyze my current personal situation, what are my characteristics, and what can I do.
Identify your target audience : This is a core issue that is easily overlooked. **Confirm that the audience's good point is "whom the content is shared with", and the bad point is "who makes money". **Because writing articles is to share my accumulation on the one hand, and to make money on the other hand. I have to be clear and think about who my audience is, who do I create content for, and what do these audiences want to see? Only then did I know what I was going to do, so that I might not be confused. If I don't even know the audience, then there is a high probability that no one will read my article.
**Highlight your own advantages:** It is also a question of what to do. You must highlight your core competitiveness in order to achieve overtaking in curves. Only by focusing on the first three questions can you know what your most suitable position is.

Of course, positioning will definitely not be solved so simply. I need to constantly think about these issues and introspect myself in order to continue to grow.

Research competing products to optimize yourself: This answer partly answers the question of how to do it , because after determining what to do, you need to know how to do it. The simplest and most reliable way here is to imitate, and imitation requires finding competing products and finding targets. I want to know what kind of account I want to make in the end, like a "so-and-so account"? In this way, I can find my own path by learning and emulating the experience of these accounts. It is easier to cross the river by feeling the stones than wading by yourself.
There are some others, which are used to further improve the quality of self-media.

**So I further detailed my situation and increased the amount of information so that ChatGPT can further give a positioning analysis, **roughly:

Personal introduction: I have studied a lot in the field of computer vision, but I don’t have enough breadth in the entire AI industry. My knowledge accumulation determines that I can only serve AI Xiaobai and AI Dabai, but not the AI technology party;
The role I expect: Bring AI knowledge to AI Xiaobai and AI Dabai, break through the barriers of AI cognition, and connect the thighs of AI for the majority of non-AI people!

So ChatGPT also gave a further reply. Some of the content is repetitive, but there are also useful answers. It is a bit long and you can skip it.

ChatGPT mainly recommends me to be an educational account of AI knowledge , and focuses the main audience on "non-AI professionals" and "beginners" , especially technical beginners, suggesting that I pass on professional knowledge to users. Similar to a tech blog.

2. Knowing what to do, what should I do?

Now there is a new question, the question of "how".

After determining the positioning and audience, what articles should I post? What do my target users care about? What do they (you) hope to gain from my article? So I asked ChatGPT again:

The audience in the ChatGPT answer is more inclined to beginners, more inclined to the principle of AI technology, and the answer is no problem. But **"Let AI work for me" does not necessarily require learning AI technology, learning AI technology is not suitable for non-AI practitioners, it is more important to learn how AI can be used in your own work**, so I reorganized the question :

So according to its answers, several "how to do" questions are obtained:

**Sharing cases and solutions: **Using AI cases, skills, and methods, so that non-AI personnel can also use AI to do their own things. Isn't this the article!
**Business opportunities: **The sharing of content at this point is not so direct, and requires precipitation and thinking;
Tools and resources : share some AI tools, etc., so that everyone can use them, so I specially added the sharing of AI resources in this article;
frontier, other.

3. My harvest, ChatGPT cured my sideline anxiety

With the conversation with ChatGPT, I probably understand what I need to continue to do as a self-media soldier: continue to share AI-related technologies; share AI tools, etc.; if I don’t know how to get it, I can continue to ask him.

Maybe everyone thinks that ChatGPT’s suggestion is a bit big and empty, and I think so too, but his big words and empty words are not useless. I need to think carefully about every item he said . For example, if I don’t know what AI knowledge, I need to find technical articles. I don’t know what websites have technical articles. I can continue to ask him. Maybe he doesn’t know the existence of “Zhihu, Nuggets”, but I think When he said that he was looking for technical articles, I could think of this matter, and I could further use other ways to obtain it. The important thing is that he reminded me.

ChatGPT's answer, even if it is empty talk, can give us a reminder at many times, just like I may know a certain method, but I just didn't think of it at this moment. When ChatGPT said it and I thought about it, I understood it.

4. Back to the main line, resource sharing

Now that the anxiety has been alleviated and the confusion is no longer there, in this article I have to share some AI tools and resources with you again, and connect with everyone's AI thighs:

ChatGPT Tips Video

First share the video on the skills of using ChatGPT mentioned in this article: [After learning this video, add a resume to your resume: Master ChatGPT to solve complex problems｜ChatGPT usage tutorial] .

This video lasted more than 1 hour. As an AI practitioner, I watched it at double speed, and I gained a lot. He talked about how to use ChatGPT to help me solve things in life and work. He basically mentioned the usage I mentioned above. And, so I highly recommend everyone to watch it. There are many different versions of summaries in the comment area of the video. You can read the summaries according to your needs.

ChatGPT usage tools

At present, the threshold for using ChatGPT is slightly higher, and you may not be able to use it after watching the video, so here are a few alternative usage solutions:

POE (requires magic), currently a well-integrated large-scale model dialogue website: https://poe.com/
Domestic model: Xunfei Xinghuo**. ** Need to apply for qualification, but the review is very fast: https://xinghuo.xfyun.cn
Baidu: Wenxin Yiyan**. ** Need to queue up to apply for qualifications: https://yiyan.baidu.com
There are also some AI navigation websites:
1. https://cooltools.top/ai.html
2. https://ai.seoml.com/tools/chat

For details on how to use the tool, please refer to another document, which summarizes some more useful ways to use it: Summary of ChatGPT available in China

ChatGPT plugin

I shared it before, if you need it, you can take a look: Efficiency artifact! God-level ChatGPT browser plug-in sharing , I will continue to share more plug-ins.

about me

Finally, introduce yourself again. Hello everyone, I am "Chen Chengnan", an AI algorithm engineer who has been involved and not yet, Schrödinger's volume ~ As an algorithm engineer for a large factory, I bring the latest cutting-edge AI knowledge and tools , and I am inspired to become an AI expert and a non-AI expert. Bridge, connecting with everyone’s AI thighs , welcome everyone to communicate ~, I will share more AI interesting tools and practical gameplay in the future , including AI related technologies, ChatGPT, AI drawing, etc.