With a number of AI platforms and bots competing in opposition to one another—there’s Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, to call just some—we’re seeing new updates and upgrades seem on a frequent foundation. One of many latest additions OpenAI has pushed out to ChatGPT is named Canvas, and it is slightly bit like an AI-powered Google Docs.
OpenAI describes it as “a brand new approach of working with ChatGPT to jot down and code,” and it means you are primarily collaborating with the AI on a textual content doc or on program code. You’ll be able to already do that in the principle chat interface in fact, however with Canvas it is a bit extra like having an AI coworker with you.
Proper now, you must be a ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Professional, or ChatGPT Plus consumer (from $20 a month) to entry the Canvas mannequin. You will discover it within the drop-down menu on the high of the dialog display screen, within the high left nook.
Getting Began With Canvas
With Canvas chosen because the AI mannequin, you can begin interacting with ChatGPT simply as you’d usually. Use the immediate field to explain the sort of code you could write, or the kind of textual content you could generate. You do have to say one thing to point you need a new canvas to be created, although—one thing like “Create a doc” or “Begin a canvas” someplace in your immediate will do it.
When the ChatGPT Canvas interface launches in full, you may see the acquainted chat dialog on the left, and no matter it’s you are engaged on on the correct. You have obtained just a few totally different choices right here. You’ll be able to enter a brand new immediate to get extra textual content (or code), you possibly can manually sort in one thing your self within the canvas pane, or you possibly can choose one thing ChatGPT has generated and ask for revisions.
These totally different choices are what makes Canvas a extra collaborative mode. Up within the high proper nook you may discover shortcuts for viewing earlier variations of your doc, or copying the textual content elsewhere. Down within the decrease proper nook, in the meantime, you may discover a pop-up toolbox that provides you a wide range of choices, relying on whether or not you are writing textual content or programming code with ChatGPT.
When you’re writing, you’ll find instruments for suggesting edits, adjusting the size of the output ChatGPT has created, altering the studying degree of the textual content, sprucing up the written output, or including emoji to the doc. For instance, click on Studying degree, and you should utilize the slider to make the textual content kind of advanced.