[账号注册] ChatGPT Overview, Account Registration, PLUS Membership Top-Up Methods, and Summary

Understand ChatGPT in One Article: If you want to learn it, this article covers everything, and it’s all in plain language, suitable for beginners.

[baike]Quick Introduction to ChatGPT Software[/baike]
What Is ChatGPT
For newcomers, you can understand ChatGPT as a robot. You can chat with it in any language (Chinese, English, programming languages, etc.). Whatever you ask it, it will feed back what it knows, because it has already learned most of the known learning materials in the world. It uses these learning materials to form its knowledge base, which is equivalent to its brain.


What It Can Do
Because it understands data documents, it can only work in the area of data and text, including reading, screening, analysis, and outputting documents in various formats. For example, you can ask it to help you write an article, check typos in an article you have written, write a special-effects webpage, analyze your EXCEL documents, or analyze reports. It can even help you apply industry knowledge to make strategies, such as e-commerce supply chain inventory management. It can monitor data for you in real time. You can ask it to keep an eye on inventory for you: when inventory needs replenishment, when certain products are recommended for price cuts and clearance to avoid overstock. It can also support higher-level fields, such as medicine and finance, to perform certain safe but labor-intensive tasks. This is how its capabilities are expressed. It is enough to understand this much for now; you will learn more in future use. To avoid making things complicated, we will introduce it here first.

[baike]How to Register a ChatGPT Account[/baike]
Preparations
Dedicated network line software, that is, a network that can open ChatGPT.
A computer browser: use Google Chrome; others are not easy to use. On mobile, just use the APP.
Email: use Google or Microsoft email; Microsoft is preferred, as it is simpler for beginners to use.

1. PC Computer
This is the method most recommended by the moderator, because we usually work on computers, and computer registration is the most convenient and easy to use. So we only need to prepare the magic tool, then turn it on. Note that you must choose a reliable magic tool; this is very important. Once your magic tool is not up to standard, you may not be able to open the ChatGPT official website, or even if registration succeeds, your account may be banned before long. After confirming, we directly open their official website address https://chat.openai.com/. Remember to use Google Chrome to open it for registration, and register with an email. If you do not use API, phone verification will not be involved.

2. Apple

For an iPhone, register an M-region (US) App Store account through a computer webpage; this is the simplest way. When choosing the region, choose a tax-free state. The purpose is so that when topping up membership, you do not need to pay extra tax. It is best to get it done in one step; otherwise, frequently changing the App Store later can easily lead to account bans. After registering, log in on your phone. Open the App Store to log in; note that you should not log in inside Settings. After logging in, the store page will refresh. At this point, directly download ChatGPT. After downloading, turn on the magic tool, then open it.

Tax-free states
Parts of Alaska
Delaware
Montana
New Hampshire
and Oregon

3. Android

For Android phones, you only need to download the Google three-piece suite. There are many tutorials online, but personally I feel they are not easy to use and are outdated. The moderator will teach you a method: turn on the magic tool, then open Google Translate, then enter the Chinese text “安卓谷歌框架”, then copy out the corresponding English, and search it in Google Search. You will see many websites; find a legitimate download site and download it. After downloading, search for ChatGPT in Google Store; remember to turn on the magic tool before opening it.

[baike]How to Top Up PLUS Membership[/baike]
Using ChatGPT 3.5 is free. If you are only doing some basic work, it is enough. 4.0 can generate images and has an updated knowledge base, but requires a paid membership. Other features, DALL-E and plugins, also require membership. Beginners are advised to try 3.5 first to do some work and understand it before considering paying.

Price: $20, equivalent to about 140. A way to save money is to use it together with several friends and crowdfund it, but if you all use it frequently, you need to get your own separate membership, because ChatGPT has usage limits: 40 replies every 3 hours.

Membership Method 1: Gift Card

It may take a long time for the card number to arrive by email.



Note that this method also carries certain risks. At first many people used it, but as more people used it, some cases of account bans appeared. For example, after a successful top-up, the GPT purchase page may show a prompt saying purchase is unavailable.
If you encounter this problem, you can refer to this article. http://www.niubo1ai.com/thread-392-1-1.html

Membership Method 2: Virtual Bank Card

It is relatively easy, but you will spend a little more money.



[baike]Using API[/baike]

The API is inside oepnai.com/chatgpt. After logging in, click Personal Center in the upper right corner and you can find it. To obtain the secret key, you need to verify a phone; you need an overseas phone number. If you don’t understand, you can ask the moderator. Remember to copy and save the secret key after obtaining it; otherwise, once you close the webpage, you will have to obtain it again and re-verify the phone number.

With the API, you can use it as a wrapper in your website, APP, or mini-program. There are many of these on GitHub, and you can also find methods on YouTube. Personally, I do not recommend it; there is no point—just understand it. With the API, you can pay by usage, with no limit on the number of uses. This is the biggest difference from direct use.

[baike]ChatGPT Capabilities[/baike]
1. What Basic Capabilities Are There?
Robots: ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0
Image generation: DALL-E 2, DALL-E 3
Plugins: personalized tools, such as web scraping, webpage creation, video-to-text extraction, etc.; there are currently more than 160.
GPTs: You can use the above capabilities to develop a robot with natural language or complex language. For example, the moderator used DALL-E 3 to develop a comic tool.

2. Version Differences
ChatGPT 3.5 is text-only. 4.0 can generate images and can upload attachments, documents, images, etc. If your work involves image data analysis, then a membership is a must; it can recognize images and create them.

[baike]Advice for Beginners[/baike]
If you are young and involved in the Internet or frequent data-related work, you must know how to use it; you have no choice. You don’t need to analyze it either. The moderator has worked in Internet marketing for more than ten years and will not fool you. The future is an era where AI replaces manpower. Learning it is not difficult. As long as you spend a few days on our website and ask the moderator and other members when you don’t understand, you will get started in a few days. The moderator has a relatively good understanding of various industries and has cases for all of them, which can help you learn quickly.