What are they, what can you do in them and what are they for?

Let’s explain to you what are ChatGPT projectsa function with which to create work environments with the artificial intelligence. This is one of the advanced options available in the paid versions of ChatGPT from the Go subscription.

We are going to start this article by explaining what exactly ChatGPT projects are, so that you can differentiate them from conventional chats. Then, we’ll go on to tell you what you can do with it, and we’ll finish with some examples of things you can do with them.

What are projects in ChatGPT

The projects on ChatGPT are a personal and persistent work environment within artificial intelligence itself. With them you will be able to organize, save and develop complex or long-term work, without ChatGPT forgetting things you have done in them in the past.

In normal chats with AI, the conversations are more ephemeral or thematic, you talk to something and at most ChatGPT remembers what you have been saying in that chat, but if you open a new one, almost everything may be lost.

While, The projects are like a kind of separate memorywhere ChatGPT will always remember what you have been doing and saying in them, and will always maintain all the context, data or instructions.

Another advantage of these projects is that they are also like a kind of portfolio, and you can upload your own files so that ChatGPT uses them when generating responses. In fact, you can make their responses based solely on internal memories.

What you can do within a project

Within a project you can create and edit fileswhether code or written documents. You can also upload your own external files for AI analysis or transformation. You can then interact with ChatGPT to base its responses on these files.

In a project you can also do other things like run python code, or even generate graphs, process data or convert file formats that you have inside. You can also connect automatic tools and flows, such as recurring queries, reports, or scheduled tasks.

You can also define custom instructions for the projectso that everything is focused on specific goals. For example, you can make it just to make weekly sales reports from the files you give them.

And in these projects you can also use specific contextual memory for what you do in them. This means that ChatGPT will remember the decisions and instructions you have made within that project, and will continue to remember them within it no matter how many times you ask it other questions, even similar ones, in conventional chats with AI.

In fact, in the project configuration you can decide whether to access external chat memory and that the memory of these chats access the project, or close the memory to only use the project memoryso that you only access the projects’ memory from them, inside you cannot access the external one, and from outside you cannot access the projects’ memory.

What are these projects for?

ChatGPT projects serve to have an independent workspace where you can work in a more structured and persistent way. Its main advantage is that helps you maintain long-term contextremembering the files and settings you upload, as well as purposes or instructions. You don’t have to upload and configure it every time like in normal chats.

Projects are like folders, where you can upload and organize multiple fileswhich can be PDF, CSV, DOCX, code, etc. Then, within this same ChatGPT project can analyze and cross-reference information of these uploaded files, or directly modify them.

But the most important thing beyond these things is that You can use the bases you upload to develop content or create products. You can write anything from a book to a technical article by asking questions about the sources you have manually uploaded, but also to develop apps, data analysis, create guides or courses, etc.

For example, you can upload several documents with data that act as sources. Then you ask ChatGPT to summarize, classify the content or draft an article for you. Then, you can polish everything and even create a final PDF.

But the most important thing about this is be able to pick up the project where you left off whenever you want. If you do these things in a normal chat, ChatGPT may later lose context due to other chats you’ve opened, or because the information crosses paths with other conversations. But in a project everything stays within the package, It’s like a separate room.

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