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Before you go back to school, set up these 5 ChatGPT tools — your future self will thank you

ChatGPT has accumulated a surprisingly large collection of education tools, including Study Mode and new plugins designed specifically for college students and educators.

The trick is using them to learn rather than outsourcing the learning itself. OpenAI explicitly describes its approach as helping students understand material rather than simply shortcutting it, which is a useful rule to keep in mind before handing ChatGPT the first assignment of the semester.

Here are five ways I would set up ChatGPT before classes get properly underway.

1. Study Mode for all

ChatGPT's aptly named Study Mode is the obvious place to start with using the AI for learning, and it doesn't even require a paid subscription. You simply start a normal conversation with ChatGPT and type @study, or click the + button and search for Study.

Once activated, Study Mode changes ChatGPT's responses from direct answers to more Socratic behavior. It...

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China’s AI and chip firms are handing out shares to keep their engineers

Apollo finds AI is hitting paychecks rather than payrolls

South Korean city bets on the ocean to solve its AI data center crisis — but this is only the beginning