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Learn Modes
All of the big 3 AI services now support “learn modes”. Each one is a bit different, but they all are trying to provide a better experience using AI to learn about a new topic. With ChatGPT, you click the ‘+’ icon, then select “Study and learn” from the More menu.
With Claude, it’s a bit different (and more confusing). You can click on the “Learn” button below the prompt area, but that just pre-loads some text as your starting prompt.
For true learning mode, you need to click the Settings icon (to the right of the ‘+’ icon), and then select the “Use style” menu item…
Now you have the opportunity to select “Learning” instead of “Normal”…
And finally, with Gemini you can click the “Learn” button below the prompt, which is the same as selecting “Guided Learning” from the Settings icon (also to the right of the “+” icon).
In my use case, I was trying to understand what a friend’s antibody therapeutics company does – I know it’s for treating cancer, but not much more. So the question I asked ChatGPT was:
Explain “full-length human IgG bispecific and and trispecific antibodies that bind to multiple targets” to someone who has a technical background and a college degree, but knows very little about cancer treatments.
(I just copy/pasted what I wanted explained from the company’s web site). ChatGPT walked me through an increasingly deep explanation, and then started asking questions to see whether I was retaining the information…for example “Want to try describing (in your own words) what makes a cleavable linker different from a non-cleavable one? That’ll help make sure the concept sticks.”
My quick take is that it’s helpful, and better than the default interaction, so definitely worth using when you want to learn about a new concept.
More Fun Stuff
My friend Matt has a new prompt generating page, which (via helpful colored labels) shows how you can construct an even more specific prompt than what I covered during our training. Check it out at https://the-prompt-for-nonprofits.lovable.app/. Clicking on any of the examples constructs a prompt with the six aspects filled in for you (Role, Audience, Task, Tone & Style, Format, Constraint).
For example, clicking on the “Social Media Post”’s “View Framework” button will display this:
