ChatGPT vision, explained 👀
5 unexpectedly brilliant ways you can use it at work
Vision in a nutshell
ChatGPT vision is its ability to see things just like you and I can.
It can do this when you
upload a document or image
allow it access to your camera in the phone app
allow it to take screenshots of any other open apps you’re using in the desktop app
Vision unlocks a ton of new uses for ChatGPT.
But it actually isn’t new — it’s part of the multimodal suite OpenAI launched last year.
What is new is that it’s now available all users, including those of you on a Free plan 🥳 and of course OpenAI have improved it in its latest GPT-4o model.
Scroll on to see some practical ways to use vision in your day-to-day with videos to bring it to life (each video ~1 minute long).
5 unexpectedly brilliant ways you can use ChatGPT vision at work
1. Transcribe handwritten meeting notes
ChatGPT can read even the messiest handwritten notes. It can grasp meaning shockingly accurately from rough notes and shorthand, and transform these into polished minutes.
2. Extract tailored insights from reports & articles
This one is a lifesaver the next time your boss asks you to read a 100-page report and pull out the most relevant bits for them. Simply upload it to ChatGPT and include context on your exec, your organization and industry and get a tailored set of insights in seconds.
3. Process expenses
If you’re not already using a tool like Expensify, this one’s for you. Simply take a picture of all your receipts and upload to ChatGPT to extract the key data points into an expense sheet.
You can even upload your company’s expense sheet template and get ChatGPT to put it in that format for you — then simply copy-paste the data across into it.
4. Give you feedback on your designs
When I was an EA I’d often have to do lightweight design work — graphics for slide decks, fliers to post around the office to promote our next all hands, customized invites to client events, and more. Now you can take your designs to the next level with targeted feedback from ChatGPT.
5. Extract valuable insights from a dataset for reports
ChatGPT has mega data capabilities.. it’s essentially like a junior analyst at your service. If you ever have to pull together reports from datasets, you’ll love this one — simply upload your data (either as a screenshot or .xlsx) and ask for key insights, data visualizations or even a full-blown report.
Hope you enjoyed these tidbits. Hit reply and let me know your feedback and how you’re finding value in vision so far!
Have a fantastic long Memorial Day or Bank Holiday weekend for those in 🇺🇸🇬🇧!
Fiona
p.s. ICYMI, I just launched an AI Challenge for EAs — a monthlong quest to use ChatGPT (or any AI chatbot) every single work day in June, incl self-paced sessions, a practical project and a super supportive community.
Consider joining if you want to build a daily AI habit + prompting skills to save you precious hours each week. Kicks off June 3, special introductory price of £99 | $129. More info here.