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The ChatGPT Revolution: How to Simplify Your Work and Life Admin with AI
The essential guide to using AI in your everyday life The ChatGPT Revolution is the ultimate quick-start guide to unlocking the power of AI tool ChatGPT. We’re on the edge of an AI revolution… but what does that mean for you? It’s time to get curious about how the latest tech can help you handle your everyday load, at work and at home! Whether you’re overwhelmed by repetitive, time-consuming tasks or you’re simply looking for a fresh injection of creativity, ChatGPT is the virtual assistant that’s got your back. With this essential handbook, you’ll learn how quickly and easily ChatGPT can turn your to-do list into a ta-da list. From helping you write emails and reports to planning your next meal or vacation, ChatGPT offers a new way to simplify your daily tasks and responsibilities. The ChatGPT Revolution shows you exactly how to use this innovative tech to save on time and stress. Sharing practical tips and fun ideas, author and acclaimed productivity expert Donna McGeorge unpacks everything you need to know. Whether you’re a busy professional or you simply want an answer to the dreaded question ‘What’s for dinner?,’ The ChatGPT Revolution reveals how you can use ChatGPT as a tool to simplify your life. AI technologies are here to this is your invitation to join the revolution. Pick up this book and learn how to harness the power of AI, so you can free up more time and energy for the things that truly matter.
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192 pages, Paperback
Published July 12, 2023
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March 21, 2024
A simple straightforward and quick read. Useful as basics for those who want to try out ChatGPT and how to frame questions for better answers and how ChatGPT can be used to support various aspects of work and private life. A bit repetitive though.
February 4, 2024
I didn’t find anything new, mostly basic search. You can find these details online in couple of blogs.
November 3, 2023
This was a hard book for me to finish as it is so dry. Some good info though.
October 6, 2024
After reading "The ChatGPT Millionaire" and "ChatGPT for Dummies", I ploughed through "The ChatGPT Revolution", which, in many ways, is but a regurgitation of the previous two books, except in one singular aspect: its somewhat cocksure tone, as it lionises and even deifies ChatGPT, reducing humans to mere tenders of the machine.
If one wishes to nosedive into exploring the full potential of ChatGPT, the author—much like the previous two—has, I should say, done great justice to that luminous expectation, albeit not without the attendant perils to the project that she has undertaken in this book.
The author has, for which she should be given vast credit, provided a reasonable panoramic view of AI, rendering it accessible to the laity, who may lack profound knowledge, enabling them to navigate through the technology. She has shown, through apposite examples and practical illustrations, how ChatGPT could be manipulated to become a maid of all work, or metaphorically, one’s hewer of wood and drawer of water.
That is as far as the value of the book is concerned. Quite ironically, however, Donna McGeorge has brought about an unintended realisation in her readers, quite outside the pale of the writer’s intention and project.
As she extols the values and significance of ChatGPT in our history, and its varied pivotal roles poised to be played in our lives and those of our descendants, she unwittingly opens a narrow crevice in the impregnable wall that she has erected for ChatGPT, revealing the mischief and even disaster that the machine is bound to create in our psyche and mind.
The author claims that ChatGPT can perform so much work for us that it would dispense with scores of “needless” and quotidian tasks that we undertake. For instance, Donna proudly proclaims that efforts such as pre-reading materials before a meeting, a conference, a course, or another meeting can be saved for pursuits deemed more worthwhile. She says that ChatGPT can produce more impressive business proposals, cover letters for job applications, and that, as a language model, it can write logically, syntactically, and even literarily, relieving us of the stress attendant upon such work.
The author gleefully adds that, to borrow her expression, we “agonise” over recherché words and expressions to compose logical sentences that accurately convey our select sentiments and the import we wish our readers to appreciate. This laborious process can, as she suggests, be farmed out to ChatGPT.
The joy of writing is the labour and travail of delivering the right emotions through the words and phrases that we painstakingly select after consulting dictionaries, thesauruses, and even usage guides. Painful as it may seem—rather like the experience of a woman in labour delivering her child—it is a delight that every writer oxymoronically savours.
The term that describes the writer’s enormous and meticulous efforts in choosing the correct expressions that are representative of his feelings is certainly not “agonise” over; rather, “meditate upon” or perhaps “ruminate on” that succinctly describes the writing process. It is about this that Brenda Ueland and Dorothea Brande have expatiated upon in their classical works for writers engaged in microcosmic creation.
Researching and crafting appropriate emails to decline requests, expressing gratitude, offering condolences, and writing to someone at a professional level—along with exploring different business strategies, new ventures, and drafting vision and mission statements for such enterprises—are all integral components of the joy of the writing process.
Besides providing me with insights into how ChatGPT operates and how we might exploit it to serve us as our tender, what astounded me to the point of providing me with an epiphany is the unintended realisation that ChatGPT is poised to usurp our thinking processes, stunting our cognitive faculties and hijacking the very efforts that distinguish us from other beings known to humankind. The author has unashamedly encouraged us to farm out everything that has rendered us singularly human to an inert machine that shall become the sine qua non of every respectable facet of human life, conveying us to the world depicted in Wall-E.
In response to historian Anton Howes, who, referring to ChatGPT, stated, “This is the comet that killed off the thesaurus,” I retort, “This is the same comet that is the harbinger of and presages untold disaster for humankind.”
The book has only reinforced and corroborated the widely-held view of experts such as Yuval Noah Harari, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Sam Altman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Yoshua Bengio, who contend that “unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalisation or even extinction of humanity” (pg. xxi, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI).
If one wishes to nosedive into exploring the full potential of ChatGPT, the author—much like the previous two—has, I should say, done great justice to that luminous expectation, albeit not without the attendant perils to the project that she has undertaken in this book.
The author has, for which she should be given vast credit, provided a reasonable panoramic view of AI, rendering it accessible to the laity, who may lack profound knowledge, enabling them to navigate through the technology. She has shown, through apposite examples and practical illustrations, how ChatGPT could be manipulated to become a maid of all work, or metaphorically, one’s hewer of wood and drawer of water.
That is as far as the value of the book is concerned. Quite ironically, however, Donna McGeorge has brought about an unintended realisation in her readers, quite outside the pale of the writer’s intention and project.
As she extols the values and significance of ChatGPT in our history, and its varied pivotal roles poised to be played in our lives and those of our descendants, she unwittingly opens a narrow crevice in the impregnable wall that she has erected for ChatGPT, revealing the mischief and even disaster that the machine is bound to create in our psyche and mind.
The author claims that ChatGPT can perform so much work for us that it would dispense with scores of “needless” and quotidian tasks that we undertake. For instance, Donna proudly proclaims that efforts such as pre-reading materials before a meeting, a conference, a course, or another meeting can be saved for pursuits deemed more worthwhile. She says that ChatGPT can produce more impressive business proposals, cover letters for job applications, and that, as a language model, it can write logically, syntactically, and even literarily, relieving us of the stress attendant upon such work.
The author gleefully adds that, to borrow her expression, we “agonise” over recherché words and expressions to compose logical sentences that accurately convey our select sentiments and the import we wish our readers to appreciate. This laborious process can, as she suggests, be farmed out to ChatGPT.
The joy of writing is the labour and travail of delivering the right emotions through the words and phrases that we painstakingly select after consulting dictionaries, thesauruses, and even usage guides. Painful as it may seem—rather like the experience of a woman in labour delivering her child—it is a delight that every writer oxymoronically savours.
The term that describes the writer’s enormous and meticulous efforts in choosing the correct expressions that are representative of his feelings is certainly not “agonise” over; rather, “meditate upon” or perhaps “ruminate on” that succinctly describes the writing process. It is about this that Brenda Ueland and Dorothea Brande have expatiated upon in their classical works for writers engaged in microcosmic creation.
Researching and crafting appropriate emails to decline requests, expressing gratitude, offering condolences, and writing to someone at a professional level—along with exploring different business strategies, new ventures, and drafting vision and mission statements for such enterprises—are all integral components of the joy of the writing process.
Besides providing me with insights into how ChatGPT operates and how we might exploit it to serve us as our tender, what astounded me to the point of providing me with an epiphany is the unintended realisation that ChatGPT is poised to usurp our thinking processes, stunting our cognitive faculties and hijacking the very efforts that distinguish us from other beings known to humankind. The author has unashamedly encouraged us to farm out everything that has rendered us singularly human to an inert machine that shall become the sine qua non of every respectable facet of human life, conveying us to the world depicted in Wall-E.
In response to historian Anton Howes, who, referring to ChatGPT, stated, “This is the comet that killed off the thesaurus,” I retort, “This is the same comet that is the harbinger of and presages untold disaster for humankind.”
The book has only reinforced and corroborated the widely-held view of experts such as Yuval Noah Harari, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Sam Altman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Yoshua Bengio, who contend that “unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalisation or even extinction of humanity” (pg. xxi, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI).
August 26, 2025
As a book that introduces ChatGPT and its increasingly wide variety of abilities this is a worthwhile read. As a book that talks continually about how much time we're 'saving' and how good all this time-saving is for our health (while at the same time telling us how much more we can do) the book is less persuasive. I felt as though McGeorge already lives at a frantic pace yet somehow feels the need to overcome the 'time-wasting' she's currently doing. For her, ChatGPT and all its counterparts are here to race us through the day achieving, achieving, achieving.
But the result of much of her achieving is adding more trivia to her life and ours. ChatGPT is brilliant at all manner of things, but making it the substitute for ordinary human inventiveness in areas where we can do just as well as the machine (or considerably better) seems to me like living for the machine rather than the machine 'living' for us.
I've used Grok more than ChatGPT and there's no doubt that the former is amazing. Between them they've helped me -among other things - with my Spanish language learning (very good), done a breakdown of a series of sermons on a particular subject (not quite so good), and will look at expanding my ideas for my next fiction book. But I've also received extremely random information on a subject I know everything about (my own publications) when I tested this out. The first time I did this was a year or more ago - it basically fudged its way through ('hallucinating' as McGeorge calls it); the second time it did a good deal better but not in a way that I'd have thought was very convincing.
Yet I know that my son who works in software development, has raved over some of the responses he's had in regard to the current start-up he's working for.
So ChatGPT et al are a mixed bag, as McGeorge sometimes suggests. However she's much more positive about AI in general than I am, which may be because she's more easily satisfied with the responses than I would be. (For example, check out the 'Haiku Homage' on page 220 of her book, which is little more than three lines on a subject that conform very little to the structure of a Haiku.)
Technically the book is helpful; encouraging the reader to see AI as capable of more than realised is useful; being satisfied with the end result...not so much.
But the result of much of her achieving is adding more trivia to her life and ours. ChatGPT is brilliant at all manner of things, but making it the substitute for ordinary human inventiveness in areas where we can do just as well as the machine (or considerably better) seems to me like living for the machine rather than the machine 'living' for us.
I've used Grok more than ChatGPT and there's no doubt that the former is amazing. Between them they've helped me -among other things - with my Spanish language learning (very good), done a breakdown of a series of sermons on a particular subject (not quite so good), and will look at expanding my ideas for my next fiction book. But I've also received extremely random information on a subject I know everything about (my own publications) when I tested this out. The first time I did this was a year or more ago - it basically fudged its way through ('hallucinating' as McGeorge calls it); the second time it did a good deal better but not in a way that I'd have thought was very convincing.
Yet I know that my son who works in software development, has raved over some of the responses he's had in regard to the current start-up he's working for.
So ChatGPT et al are a mixed bag, as McGeorge sometimes suggests. However she's much more positive about AI in general than I am, which may be because she's more easily satisfied with the responses than I would be. (For example, check out the 'Haiku Homage' on page 220 of her book, which is little more than three lines on a subject that conform very little to the structure of a Haiku.)
Technically the book is helpful; encouraging the reader to see AI as capable of more than realised is useful; being satisfied with the end result...not so much.
February 21, 2024
This book was a quick read. It felt repetitive at times. For instance, all of the food preparation tips seemed to be re-hashed advice of earlier indications of how to use generative AI.
And, as I find myself to be comfortable within Google's products, I used Google's Gemini rather than ChatGPT.
Using the technique in this book of putting prompts that indicate Purpose, Perspective and Personality, I generated this witty story.
And then, another tip in the book was illustrated in this linked blog post.
I borrowed the book from City of Sydney Library.
And, as I find myself to be comfortable within Google's products, I used Google's Gemini rather than ChatGPT.
Using the technique in this book of putting prompts that indicate Purpose, Perspective and Personality, I generated this witty story.
And then, another tip in the book was illustrated in this linked blog post.
I borrowed the book from City of Sydney Library.
April 26, 2024
If you have basic AI prompting down, you can forego reading this book. If you need ideas (recipes, travel itinerary, etc.) on what to prompt chatGPT with, then this book might be for you but you could also just read multiple blog posts. Overall, it's super dry and repetitive. Unsurprisingly, she used ChatGPT to help her write it.
February 21, 2024
The book is very concise, but fantastic when it comes to explaining potential role of ChatGPT applications in facilitating administrative duties. It's very helpful, give ample examples of prompts and ways to use this AI.
June 23, 2024
I’ve been dubious about AI, but this book has converted me. So many time saving tips on both the home and work front! With the caveat of not putting anything into ChatGPT that you don’t want on the front page of a newspaper, it’s game changer!
March 11, 2025
Not rocket science, but a useful intro to AI and some helpful prompts to get people started. I like the advice at the end - like the industrial revolution before it, technology and progress should free up our time to spend on quality, enjoyable activities. Not more work.
June 11, 2025
Really good for the curious beginner like myself. But a bit too basic, not keen on the chatty style while at the same time it was rigidly structured. The combination of both felt oddly unnatural- reflecting the content I suppose.
July 24, 2023
The book focuses on how to use ChatGPT to make work and life easier.
November 11, 2023
A short introduction most suited for people who aren’t tech savvy to start off with. Will help them get over any initial hesitance trying ChatGPT.
November 28, 2023
This book has provided me with valuable tools that are going to improve my efficiency in so many areas of my life and at work. Recommend it for any professional or busy human.
April 20, 2024
A great introduction to ChatGPT.
March 4, 2025
Another short introductory book with some additional resources to check out. It’s a quick read for the beginner.
July 19, 2025
3/5 Decent explanation of what Chat GPT is and how to use it. Nothing impressive. Just basic info.
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January 4, 2024A decent beginner’s manual on ways to use ChatGPT, with suggested prompts to get started.
You could probably find the content easily yourself though, rather than paying $28 for the book.
You could probably find the content easily yourself though, rather than paying $28 for the book.
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